And probably not what you expected. It dates back to 1992, after a CERN organized festival called the Hardronic Festival. Tim Berners-Lee asked Silvano de Gennaro to scan some pictures of the CERN girls to publish on this thing he invented called the World Wide Web.
And the rest is history.

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