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The 1st photo uploaded to the internet was a comedy band called as “Les Horribles Cernettes”



Every day millions of photos are uploaded to the Internet on countless blogs, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, etc.
But have you ever wondered what the very first image upload looked like?
In 1992, a picture of the parody band Les Horribles Cernettes, that was digitally altered in Photoshop, earned the distinction of becoming the first World Wide Web photo upload.

On July 18, 1992, this photograph of the band — comprised, at that point, of Michele Muller, Colette Marx-Nielsen, Angela Higney, and Lynn Veronneau — became the very first image uploaded to the web.

Les Horribles Cernettes, or The Horrible CERN Girls, was an all-female parody-pop group, self-labelled as “the one and only high energy rock band”, formed by CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) employees and who performed at CERN events. The group was photographed at the CERN Hardronic Festival, by Silvano de Gennaro, an analyst in the Computer Science department at CERN, who also wrote additional songs for the groups.

Story:

 The internet's creator, Tim Berners-Lee, was looking to test a Web system that could support photos and asked IT developer Silvano de Gennaro to provide an image.
De Gennaro chose an edited image of the ladies of Les Horribles Cernettes, whose nerdy song lyrics included the words "you say you love me, but you never beep me."
Part of the reason the upload was so revolutionary was because the Internet was previously seen as a place for conducting serious business, not having fun.
De Gennaro, who snapped the picture of the ladies for their next CD cover, never could have imagined the place it would have in history.
"I didn't know what the Web was," he said later. "When history happens, you don't know that you're in it."

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Interesting
 

That's a fascinating piece of history! Amazing how something so simple could mark the beginning of the visual internet we know today.

Interesting

Thanks for sharing