We come across thousands of photos and videos on the Internet daily but while exploring the virtual world, have you ever thought or tried to know what was the first ever picture to be uploaded on the web? Well, definitely maximum answers will be negative as the life today is fast and to move with the time, people just don’t want to waste even a single minute thinking about the things that have got nothing to do with them or in simple words, which are none of their business!!
But today you will get the answer of this question if it ever stricken your mind as we are going to make you familiar with the first pic ever uploaded on the Internet. Well, first of all, let us tell you that this photo had nothing extraordinary, unusual, unique or distinctive. On the contrary, it was a promotional pic showcasing Les Horrible Cernettes which was a parody pop group including ladies only. Foundation of this comedy group was done by CERN employees and the females belonging to this band were CERN scientists’ girlfriends and secretaries. CERN is European Organization for Nuclear Research at Geneva, Switzerland.
This pic was clicked by a CERN analyst from the department of Computer Science named Silvano de Gennaro and definitely at that time, not even once he would’ve thought that his work would be making history after few decades. You can still find this comedy band’s site on the Internet.
Internet was invented by Tim berners-lee and in the year 1992, he uploaded this pic after editing it in Photoshop’s version 1 on a colour Mac. What’s more, the pic was saved with the ‘Gif’ extension prior to uploading.
This is what Silvano de Gennaro stated talking about the date of publishing of the pic, “(It was) on and off the web for a few months, until one day the GIF interface worked fine and the photo stayed on the server and became accessible to other surfers.”
Take a look at the original photo in full:
What An Amazing Piece Of Information!!
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