Long, long ago, and far, far away---specifically, in the early 90s in Switzerland---computer scientists at CERN were test-driving a little something called the World Wide Web. And when the time came to test the thing's capabilities with photographs, guess what happened to be on hand? A Photoshop job of a group of CERN administrative assistants and significant others who sang physics-themed doo-wop. Sample lyric:
You never spend your nights with me You don’t go out with other girls either You only love your collider (dip da-oo-yeah)
Abraham Riesman over at Motherboard has a great feature
laying out the hilarious mundanities behind the Web's first photo, from father-of-the-Web Tim Berners-Lee's cross-dressing---"“I don’t know whether I should be telling you this, but he worked at CERN and I saw him because he was part of our pantomime in our amateur operatic society,” remembered Colette Marx-Nielsen, a Cernettes member (she’s second from the ...
