Though this picture may front like a prom picture on Facebook that ’s been blingee’d , it ’s in reality the very first photograph that was ever upload to the web . The history of the picture — in all its random glory and woeful photoshopping — is awesome .
Motherboardactually tracked the photo ’s origin downand found out that the adorable lady in the picture were part of a musical grouping called Les Horrible Cernettes , a comedy band base at the CERN research laboratory in Geneva which was comprise of admin assistants and significant others of CERN scientists . The pic was tweaked in version one of Photoshop on a color Mac and saved as a .gif before being upload by Tim Berners - Lee , one of the inventor of the net … and a crossdresser . Yeah , it gets a fiddling eldritch . Be trusted to take the whole narration atMotherboardof how a random picture select 20 years ago became the Internet ’s first picture .
Here ’s the photo in full
And here ’s the picture before Photoshop . look at this unedited , it ’s almost fitting that this was the first depiction uploaded to the web , every other photograph on Facebook await just like it . [ Motherboard ]
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