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nicoburns
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Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which t...
> And still I find the pictures astonishingly good for 1994..
I guess it's probably a scanned print rather than an image from a digital cameras.
DanBC
on Feb 3, 2021
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Yes, but it's not in "websafe" 216 colour or super compressed jpeg.
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Fair point. I remember an earlyish web, but I guess 1994 is a little before my time (I was born in 1993).
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Tangentially, JPEG was only two years old when that site was published!
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I guess it's probably a scanned print rather than an image from a digital cameras.