A cheesy image of the Cernettes’ adorably amateurish band promo may have been the first ever uploaded onto the Web, but they were far from the first ladies to grace the internet (there’s a difference, you know). No, numerous subjects beat the Cernettes to the punch, many by decades. Above, you’ll find a photo of Lena, who’s perhaps the most famous.You might have seen her before — Wikipedia describes the shot as “probably the most widely used test image for all sorts of image processing algorithms (such as compression and denoising) and related scientific publications.” Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science says that “Over the past 25 years, no image has been more important in the history of imaging and electronic communications, and today the mysterious Lena is considered the First Lady of the Internet.”Read the rest over at Motherboard.