July 18, 1992: The First Photo Uploaded to the Web

[Vasilisa]

On July 18, 1992, this photograph became the very first image uploaded to the web.

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[Qlip]

Very cool. As a pedantic geek, I do want to point out that this might be the first image on the web, but it's not the first image on the internet. There's been a long history of digitized images in computer land. This one is the most famous:

Lenna 97: A Complete Story of Lenna

 

[Avocado]

Very cool. As a pedantic geek, I do want to point out that this might be the first image on the web, but it's not the first image on the internet. There's been a long history of digitized images in computer land. This one is the most famous:

Lenna 97: A Complete Story of Lenna

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What year is that from?

 

[Qlip]

What year is that from?

It was scanned in '73, and probably on the Internet not all that long after, via whatever they were using to transfer data, probably FTP.

 

[Avocado]

It was scanned in '73, and probably on the Internet not all that long after, via whatever they were using to transfer data, probably FTP.

Cool.