les horribles Cernettes

Cette image un peu kitsch est un morceau d’histoire de l’informatique. Il s’agit de la première image à avoir été mise sur le web. L’explication se trouve dans cette notice de Wikipedia :

Back in 1992, after their show at the CERN Hadronic Festival, my colleague Tim Berners-Lee asked me for a few scanned photos of “the CERN girls” to publish them on some sort of information system he had just invented, called the “World Wide Web”. I had only a vague idea of what that was, but I scanned some photos on my Mac and FTPed them to Tim’s now famous “info.cern.ch”. How was I to know that I was passing an historical milestone, as the one above was the first picture ever to be clicked on in a web browser!”

Et si vous vous demandez qui sont « les horribles Cernettes » la réponse se trouve ici.