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World’s First Photograph!

Arnab — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:00:33 +0000

Joseph Niepce of France took the world’s first photograph in 1826. He named the photograph “heliograph.” It took 8 hours to take the picture. It is not known however exactly how he took the photo. People are thinking that he used pewter plate coated with bitumen (a petroleum that is sensitive to light). Then he waited 8 hours letting this dry and harden. After that he washed it with white petroleum and lavender oil. It washed away the undissolved bitumen which didn’t see the light. Here is the picture

World’s First Banner Ad!

Arnab — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:44:24 +0000

HotWired, world’s first commercial web magazine was launched around the end of 1994. Around that time, they wanted to do experiments with a new advertisement revenue strategy, which will become very common to today’s web. AT&T was the first company to put this ad into Hotwired’s website. Before we check out the ad, we should know that this is not only the first banner ad but also most probably the worst one used commercially. Well, I guess we could cut some slack for them since they created the first one ever. Therefore, here it goes.