The image: The particulars of history can be very mundane, says the Huffington Post. The first photo ever taken was of an obscured rooftop, the first television broadcast was of a ventriloquist's dummy, and the first photograph ever uploaded to the World Wide Web was this: A poorly Photoshopped promo still for a little-known female comedy band called Les Horribles Cernettes. (Take a look at right and below.) The photograph was uploaded to the web on July 18, 1992, when CERN (yes, that CERN) IT developer Silvano de Gennaro uploaded the GIF file using the now-famous HTTP protocol that birthed the web pages most of us use to access the internet today. "The web, back in '92 and '93, was exclusively used by physicists," says de Gennaro, who admits he "didn't know what the web was." The Cernettes, composed of administrative assistants and significant others of CERN scientists, wrote cheesy doo-wop songs about physics. As a joke, Gennaro superimposed the foursome onto a sky-blue background using Photoshop 1.0 on his color Mac. "When history happens," he said, "you don't know that you're in it."