EmptyTimCup
09-09-2009, 06:01 AM
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11 Firsts In Internet History (http://www.11points.com/Web-Tech/11_Firsts_In_Internet_History_spv)
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM
People on the Internet love firsts. I can only conclude this based on the number of comment threads that begin with someone writing "First!"
So I went on a hunt for 11 Internet firsts and found some really interesting ones... although, sadly, I was unable to track down the first time someone left the first "First!" comment.
1.
First Image. The first image in web history was... four women, all of whom now probably regret being part of the first image in web history.
A programmer named Silvano de Gennaro worked for CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, located in Geneva, Switzerland... aka the birthplace of the World Wide Web).
In 1992, the non-ManBearPig-focused founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, had just built this new information system called the World Wide Web, and created the first website, Welcome to info.cern.ch (http://info.cern.ch).
Berners-Lee asked Gennaro to scan some photos from a CERN party and post them on that page. Gennaro didn't really get what he was talking about but scanned in the photos, FTPed them to the server and linked them to a page. The picture of the four women, complete with their early '90s "Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead" fashion sense, was the first one ever viewed in a web browser.
And if the cougar in the silver sparkles had just leaned a tiny bit more, this could've simultaneously been the first nude photo on the Web. [Source]
11 Firsts In Internet History (http://www.11points.com/Web-Tech/11_Firsts_In_Internet_History_spv)
Posted Monday, August 24, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM
People on the Internet love firsts. I can only conclude this based on the number of comment threads that begin with someone writing "First!"
So I went on a hunt for 11 Internet firsts and found some really interesting ones... although, sadly, I was unable to track down the first time someone left the first "First!" comment.
1.
First Image. The first image in web history was... four women, all of whom now probably regret being part of the first image in web history.
A programmer named Silvano de Gennaro worked for CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, located in Geneva, Switzerland... aka the birthplace of the World Wide Web).
In 1992, the non-ManBearPig-focused founder of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, had just built this new information system called the World Wide Web, and created the first website, Welcome to info.cern.ch (http://info.cern.ch).
Berners-Lee asked Gennaro to scan some photos from a CERN party and post them on that page. Gennaro didn't really get what he was talking about but scanned in the photos, FTPed them to the server and linked them to a page. The picture of the four women, complete with their early '90s "Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead" fashion sense, was the first one ever viewed in a web browser.
And if the cougar in the silver sparkles had just leaned a tiny bit more, this could've simultaneously been the first nude photo on the Web. [Source]