11 Firsts In Internet History

Posted by Miss Cellania in Blog & Internet on September 7, 2009 at 12:52 am


Have you ever wondered what the first item sold on eBay was? Or who ran the first banner ad on the internet? Or what the first spam massage tried to sell? 11Points has those firsts and more, including this picture, which was the first image on the internet in 1992. It was uploaded by programmer Silvano de Gennaro in Geneva at the request of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.

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.

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6 comments to "11 Firsts In Internet History"

  1. D Bozko
    September 7th, 2009 at 10:45 am

    Being first isn't necessarily a good thing. As with most of these examples, first means you don't necessarily know what you're doing or what it will amount to in the future. Plus nobody really cares about the early internet, just where we are now. Oh and what was the first NEATORAMA story?

  2. Miss Cellania
    September 7th, 2009 at 11:17 am

    This one:

    http://www.neatorama.com/2005/08/09/cool-optical-illusions/

    Not that anyone cares.

  3. Rich
    September 7th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    "First image on the Web", surely. The first image on the Internet was long before 1992, probably on some FTP or Gopher site.

  4. D Bozko
    September 7th, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    Well golly Miss Cellania I wouldn't have asked if I didn't care.

  5. Thebes
    September 7th, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    First image on the INTERNET?
    First image on the World Wide Web perhaps, I didn't get onto that until a few years later.
    I downloaded images from the internet by late 91. It was not a point and click process, I remember at one point joining usenet binaries manually, piping stuff around in a shell before downloading the file to my mac and turning it into a binary file with BinHex.
    People tend nowadays to think the internet and the web are the same, forgetting things like newsgroups, IRC, ftp servers with archie, telnet bbs's, MUDs and MUSHes, etc.

  6. ted
    September 8th, 2009 at 7:18 pm

    I just assumed the first picture was porn.


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