This 1992 Pic Was The First Photograph Uploaded On Internet; What We Know

The internet has revolutionised the world and made it a smaller space, enabling instant communication with people with the help of email, social media, and other messaging applications. Besides the communications aspect, social media has also helped to share the most joyous moments of our lives through pictures and videos. Talking about the photos available on the internet, do you know about the first picture uploaded on it?

As per the CBS News report, the first photograph to be uploaded online was that of the band Les Horribles Cernettes or the Horrible CERN Girls female parody group. The report states that this first photograph was uploaded on July 18, 1992. However, its photographer and the band’s composer, Silvano de Gennaro denied this report in an interview with the Metro.co.uk. Silvano confirmed that it is a myth and it is impossible to know what was the first photo available on the platform created by the computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. Les Horribles Cernettes’s photograph was clicked at the CERN Hardronic Festival.

As per the information available on the Metro, Cern, which is based in a northwest suburb of Geneva, Switzerland, is home to thousands of employees. These employees comprise scientists and office workers from all over the world. Michele, Silvano’s wife explained that living at Cern feels like living in its little international city with restaurants, kindergartens, coffee shops, and bars. According to her, with these facilities, comes a thriving social scene as well.

At that time, Silvano’s colleague Berners-Lee decided to create a webpage listing some of the extra-curricular activities available at Cern. His intern was the one who chose a picture of the Cernettes band to include details about the organisation’s music club, of which he was a member. “In the way it was the first picture there was not strictly physics,” Silvano said. It showed that there were artists, and there was life. If not the first image uploaded onto the web, he said, it can be defined ‘as the picture that opened the web to the world.

Michele said that she had no idea about the kind of impact that this photograph would create until she was contacted by the journalists in 2022.