From Yesterday - Guess what these girls are famous for

[packman]

Had a "Guess what these girls are famous for" question yesterday as a post. Here's the full answer.



It was a time when Facebook’s invention was still more than 10 years away. It was a time when the idea of Instagram, a platform meant exclusively for sharing photos was far from conceived. In fact, it was a time when photos had never been shared on the internet.

Exactly 24 years ago – on 18 July, 1992 – the first picture was uploaded on the web. The photo that captured four slickly dressed women was posted by Tim Burners Lee, the inventor

Girls also lay claim to being the FIRST BAND on the web.

Keep in mind the is the WORLD-Wide - Web, the old WWW out of CERN Switzerland when it was only used for communication between science labs.

http://www.tgdaily.com/web/166096-24-years-ago-the-first-photo-ever-uploaded-on-the-internet

[qnr]

1. Technically, that's not entirely true.

At least for the "In fact, it was a time when photos had never been shared on the internet." part.

I had been sharing photos via NNTP for many years by that time. In fact, while it's not the internet, I had been sharing photos (of varying quality) on bulletin boards, Compuserve, GEnie, and more since 1981.

[packman]

2. I think the key word here is "internet"

Agree that there was other sharing sources, but the internet is the internet.

[qnr]

3. Indeed, but there was a lot of activity on the 'internet'

prior to the WWW. NNTP is internet newsgroups, and they were very active, for example.