Les Horribles Cernettes part deux

THE FIRST PHOTO ON THE WEB - FROM CERNETTES.COM

Remember Les Horribles Cernettes from back at the start of August?  They were a girl band based at Cern back in the early 90’s, who’s claim to fame was being the first band to have a web presence. A few weeks after Anne was interviewed on BBC Radio 5 live, the band’s songwriter Sylvano Di Gennaro was interviewed on the same programme, and took the tale on a few steps further.

While they were indeed the first band to have a website, they have an even better feather in their cap. The picture of them posted on their websites cernettes.com was the first picture ever posted on the web ever full stop.  Says Sylvano: “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”. And the rest, as they say, is history.