@dragosr I remember about three years later when grad students started asking for SLIP/PPP accounts so they could get images dialed in. I thought "Well, I guess if you think you need it..."

@dragosr thanks, I uh, didn't actually need to know I'm older than pictures on the internet :/
I'm soooooooo old

@dragosr Between that and the BLINK tag, it's been downhill ever since. (Dammit, where in hell is the old-man-in-a-rocking-chair emoji when I want it.)

@dragosr How far that mofo has fallen.

@dragosr And they did it! 😉👋

@dragosr I feel old

@dragosr and it's been downhill ever since.

@dragosr I was 15. Darn I feel old 🤣

@dragosr the missed opportunity to make the alt= property required...

@dragosr
Happy that the usage of ‘foobar’ lives on

@dragosr Related: The first image on the web was from CERN's all-girl science rock band: https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/07/18/les-horribles-cernettes/

Their one album is actually pretty great.

@dragosr Back in the days when Marc was making decent suggestions.

Before <blink>, that is.

@dragosr nxoc01.cern.ch :blobcateyes:

@dragosr I’m old enough to remember when you could add height and width tags so the page didn’t keep jumping around while elements downloaded.

@dragosr @chris To think; "XBM" and "XPM" formats were the ones that they thought made the most sense to support initially. I've been involved with computers and the web for 30+ years, and I don't recall ever using those formats for anything. TIFF? sure. BMP? absolutely. GIF? Obviously. I even remember how revolutionary it was when I discovered JPG on a BBS. XBM/XPM? Not at all.

I was looking for that one!!!

In which mailing list? I'm unsure it's in one of @w3c archives. The few attempts I've made, I didn't find.

(Oh, it doesn't have an alt attribute, I'll have to re-post, sorry)

Thanks @dragosr

@dragosr ...and today, in 21st century, increasing number of websites are unable (unwilling?) to display those images without browsers enabling #Javascript. Oh my, how we have regressed.

#FuckAds

@dragosr it'll never catch-on

@dragosr old history

@dragosr Geez, it was only 30y ago. #IMG

@dragosr "..MIME someday, maybe" -- aaaagghhhh..

I've spent MONTHS working on code that takes mime format child entity references and round trips them with browser viable html references and back.

@dragosr and we still can't reliably reload an img with the same URL, no-cache be damned.

@dragosr

You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

@dragosr
It is very interesting to read all the discussion about the IMG syntax and to see, in the end, how the current one have been chosen.

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html