The Reel Foto Blog 1st Year Anniversary and the 1st image on the Internet


A year ago this week, the Reel Foto Blog was born on an unassuming rant extolling the genius of Henri Cartier-Bresson. One year on, the blog continues to rant on the genius of photography itself. To celebrate this moment of firsts, here is a little bit of trivia: The above picture holds the distinction of being the first photographic image published on the Internet.

The image is that of CERN employees/pop group "Le Horribles Cernettes" nicknamed the LHC (a play on the initials of the Large Hadron Collider). The picture was uploaded in 1992 on the request of Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the World Wide Web). As LHC singer Silvano de Gennaro put it, "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!"

More information on "Les Horribles Cernettes" and the story behind the first picture on the internet over here and here.

Comments

  1. Goes without saying some scientific institute got the first image online, but this is just hilarious. Really cool!

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  2. Congrats sir and a bit of trivia I never knew!

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  3. Congrats and this looks funny!

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  4. Happy Blog Anniversary to my favorite photo blogger!

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  5. Happy Blog Birthday for yesterday!! and a useful bit of pub quiz trivia!!

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  6. Congratulations!
    Also, sexy nerds.

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  7. so even from it's beginnings, the internet was meant to ogle images of women. =p

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  8. congratz - what a year its been

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