The first photo on the web: the CERN girl group behind the LHC name
threepointone · x · 2026-10-27
A 1992 photo billed as the first ever posted to the World Wide Web sparked trivia: Les Horribles Cernettes, a girl group made entirely of CERN scientists who sang about physics, chose their name so its initials matched Large Hadron Collider.
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