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This is the first Photo Ever Uploaded to the Web

20 years ago WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee uploaded the first photo the world wide web.

Jul 12 2012, 3:37am CDT | by

This is the first Photo Ever Uploaded to the Web
 
 
 

On Jul 18 1992, Tim Berners-Lee tested for the first time images on in HTML. He asked his college at the CERN labs Silvano de Gennaro for a photo. He gave Berners-Lee a photoshopped image showing a CERN based comedy ladies band: Les Horribles Cernettes. And this is the story how a photo of four ladies in prom dresses ends up becoming an historic item. Read the full story on Motherboard.

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CERN celebrates 20 years of a free, open web

Source: AlphaGalileo,org

Twenty years ago CERN1 published a statement that made the World Wide Web ("W3", or simply "the web") technology available on a royalty-free basis. By making the software required to run a web server freely available, along ...
Full article at: AlphaGalileo,org  More like this  2 days ago, 1:58am CDT

Petite chronique d’un prof au CERN (III)

Source: Quantam Diaries

On a beau être dans un des plus grands centre de recherche fondamentale du monde, rien de vaut un tableau noir et une craie (cette dernière difficile à trouver par ici parait-il). David Rousseau (IN2P3 / LAL-Orsay) nous confirme la découverte presque peu ...
Full article at: Quantam Diaries  More like this  5 days ago, 2:32am CDT

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