This Is The First Picture Ever Uploaded To The Internet!

Here it is, the first picture EVER uploaded to the Internet. It's hard to remember what life was like before the Internet existed. However, there was a time when the Internet didn't have any music, videos, or even pictures. We owe at least the picture part of the Internet equation to a man by the name of Silvano de Gennaro. The 20 year anniversary of this event takes place next week, July 18th.

Silvano de Gennaro was an IT developer at CERN who worked near Tim Berners-Lee and the other scientists who had invented the Web and made it public in 1991. But “I didn’t know what the Web was,” he recalled.

On July 18th, 1992, de Gennaro was backstage at the Hardronic Music Festival, an annual event thrown by CERN’s administrators, waiting for the Cernettes — whom he managed, and whose songs he writes — to come on stage. He wanted a picture for their next CD cover, so he told the four members to lean in and smile.

His co-worker, Tim Berners-Lee who is the father of the Internet, was working a new version of the Internet, one that could handle photos. Looking for a test pic to try and upload, he asked  Silvano de Gennaroif he had any scanned pictures. At that very moment, Silvana was playing around with a gif of The Cernettes, the band he managed. Next thing he knows, BOOM! The picture is uploaded as the first picture ever uploaded to the Internet!

Below is the original picture Silvana took with his camera that fateful night, before he photo shopped it to include the blue background.