"The web, back in ’92 and ’93, was exclusively used by physicists."
Kind of misleading without qualification, if you ask me. Web, perhaps. But images were flying around all over online communities by this time.
There were plenty of non-physicists on Usenet, Compuserv BBS etc., university systems, The Well and ECHO and MUDs for a number of years before the web launched in 1992.
Many of these folks were quite familiar with telnet-ing in and transferring images via gopher etc (or even CompuServ etc software) before the web itself launched.
Kind of misleading without qualification, if you ask me. Web, perhaps. But images were flying around all over online communities by this time.
There were plenty of non-physicists on Usenet, Compuserv BBS etc., university systems, The Well and ECHO and MUDs for a number of years before the web launched in 1992.
Many of these folks were quite familiar with telnet-ing in and transferring images via gopher etc (or even CompuServ etc software) before the web itself launched.