First pic on the internet

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First pic on the internet

Back in 1992, after their show at the CERN Hardronic Festival, my colleague Tim Berners-Lee asked me for a few scanned photos of “the CERN girls” to publish them on some sort of information system he had just invented, called the “World Wide Web”. I had only a vague idea of what that was, but I scanned some photos on my Mac and FTPed them to Tim’s now famous “info.cern.ch”. How was I to know that I was passing an historical milestone, as the one above was the first picture ever to be clicked on in a web browser!”

Silvano de Gennaro

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47 Responses to “First pic on the internet”

  1. Google Chrome News » Blog Archive » First pic on the internet Says:

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  4. Jeri Says:

    this is photoshopped.

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  7. dawg Says:

    I thought Al Gore invented the Internet

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  10. Frittz Says:

    LHC

  11. jeri Says:

    jeez, these are some ****** looking *******!

  12. taylorjade. Says:

    you would think the first picture on the internet would be something more symbolic, or at least more interesting.
    this picture is so boring and ugly. it seems a waste.

  13. Greg Says:

    Les horrible cernettes… Elle ne sont pourtant pas si horribles.

  14. www Says:

    www is not the internet!

  15. Tim BL Says:

    Could you please change the title of this picture to “First pic on the World Wide Web”? I guarantee you, this is NOT the first “pic on the internet” There were plenty of images on nntp and ftp servers long before info.cern.ch:80 was running.

  16. sudaca Says:

    gopher ftw rules the interwebz

  17. Stupid Inbred Hicks Says:

    And just like that, the days of internet ***** begin.

  18. two tone Says:

    whats that foreign shit say? Horrible whores?

  19. wat Says:

    I’d probably shag all of them, tbh.

  20. Ratz Says:

    I was viewing pictures on the Internet a LONG time before the World Wide Web started.

    “First pic on the WWW” should be the title of this.

  21. Nelly Says:

    I’d have thought it would’ve been porn All the rest have been.

  22. honour chick Says:

    porn?

  23. Seb Says:

    The comments on this site are pathetic. We’ll have to filter WWW users, quickly. no respect, no subtlety, no intelligence, no culture, no curiosity. Only gross vulgarity.

  24. Old man Says:

    Just because you clicked it in a web browser does not mean you were clicking it on the internet. This picture and entry is fail.

  25. Baratone Says:

    I was expecting it to be porn

  26. Tor Says:

    none of these ******* have tits.

  27. McCain Says:

    Maybe i should take this picture and print it off for my campaing

  28. idiots Says:

    as usual a whole bunch of losers pick the crap out of an historic moment……my faith in the lack of humanity is restored

  29. Tor Says:

    But i’ll have the one on the right…

  30. generally Says:

    To Wilbur-
    Bitter much?

  31. Sir William Howe Says:

    Slags.

  32. buzzman Says:

    Greets! Really amazing. keep working! Tnx! Saw!

  33. Chip Says:

    WTF? Wasn’t porn the first image on the www? :)

  34. Bas Says:

    The internet is doomed.

  35. fa q Says:

    shit **** piss **** motherfucker.

  36. barbie Says:

    thats my mom!

  37. Scotty Says:

    But Al Gore claims he invented the internet!!!

  38. Sam Says:

    the last one to the left looks like Jennifer Love Hewitt

  39. dottie Says:

    Sam looks like jennifer love hewitt

  40. dylan Says:

    **** willie, you are my ******* life XD

  41. Lunatox Says:

    Seriousness and censorship will be the death of humanity.

    LONG LIVE FREE SPEECH AND NEGRO LYNCHINGS!

  42. Javen Says:

    hmmmmmmm… convince them but not me.

  43. somejerk Says:

    i’d probably hit it.

  44. Tim Berners-Lee Says:

    Actually, Sylvano, this wasn’t the first picture on the web. All 1991 I was giving talks which pictures — remember the NeXT machine could handle sounds and movies and images including postscript very smoothly so they were all on the web from the word go (December 1990). The web architecture diagram for example was a early one. With all due respect to Les Horribles Cernettes - which I am sure the first in many other domains :) . The comment about the Internet is spot on too — must have been millions of pics on FTP servers, and in fact these all were all grandfathered onto the web because they instantly got FTP URIs the moment URIs were invented. So early things like the Vatican renaissance museum used photos on existing FTP servers. — Tim

  45. dottie Says:

    these gurls are headed for abortions!

  46. jonnyman Says:

    I agree with some of the other sensible comments here - the internet is not the same thing as the www, the internet was running some time in the 1970’s. Don’t tell me they didn’t have digital images even back then. Heck, I was creating digital (scanned) images back in the 1980’s at school, when I started university in 1993 the internet and www were already quite populated with images and websites (mostly nerdy stuff like Star Trek, hurrah!)
    Pictures had been up on BBS’s for years before the 1990’s.

  47. Educated Says:

    Will all of you stupid ******* s that don’t know the difference between inTRAnet and inTERnet STFU!!

    This was the first pic on the inTERnet! There is a huge difference and the inTERnet is the same as www you dimwits.

    Geez!! Go back to school you idiots.

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