Ongoing History Daily: The first-ever photo posted online involved music

Millions and millions of photos are posted online every single day. But who was first? It was a band.

Back in 1992, a graphic designer at the massive CERN particle physics complex in Europe named Michele de Genarro was in a group with three other women. They were called Les Horribles Cernettes and played gigs for the scientists and staff. After a show in July 1992, a colleague named Tim Berners-Lee scanned some pictures he’d taken of the group with the idea of posting them on this new information system he had invented. This thing was called the World Wide Web, and the picture of the Cernettes ended up at the address info.cern.ch, which was one of the very first modern Internet addresses.

That cemented this band’s place in history for all time.