October 22nd, 2008
First Lady of the Internet
Gracing the desktops of millions of engineers, researchers, and digital imaging specialists for 25 years, Playboy’s Miss November 1972 - dubbed the “First Lady of the Internet” - Lena Sjooblom became Net royalty when her centerfold was scanned in by programmers at the University of Southern California to use as a test image for digital compression and transmission over Arpanet, the precursor to the Internet. Years later, the “Lena” image (a closeup of her face and bare shoulder) is still the industry standard for tests. True story!
