Large Hadron Rap. The Big Bang Theory - Sheldon's Rebus - Higgs Boson Particle. Crossdressing, Compression and Colliders: The First Photo on the Web. The first photographic image ever uploaded to the Web was a Photoshop disaster.
It was created to sell something, and featured attractive women in a come-hither pose. In short, photo-uploading was born with some original sins that have never quite washed away. Here it is, in all its glory: Next Wednesday, July 18th, the photograph at the center of that image — a homemade promotional shot for Les Horribles Cernettes, a comedy band based at the CERN laboratory near Geneva — will turn 20 years old. Despite the artifact’s world-historical significance, its full story has never been told.