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1973 – Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first large image-capturing CCD chip: 100 rows and 100 columns.
1975 – Bryce Bayer of Kodak develops the Bayer filter mosaic pattern for CCD color image sensors
1986 – Kodak scientists develop the world's first megapixel sensor.
The web has been a popular medium for storing and sharing photos ever since the first photograph was published on the web by Tim Berners-Lee in 1992 (an image of the CERN house band Les Horribles Cernettes). Since then sites and apps such as Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Picasa (discontinued in 2016), Imgur, Photobucket and Snapchat have been used by many millions of people to share their pictures.

== Gallery of historical photos ==

== See also ==
History of the camera
History of Photography (academic journal)
Albumen print
History of photographic lens design
Timeline of photography technology
Outline of photography
List of photographs considered the most important
Photography by indigenous peoples of the Americas
Women photographers
Movie camera
Instant film

== References ==

== Further reading ==
Hannavy, John. Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, 5 volumes
Clerc, L.P. Photography Theory and Practice, being an English edition of "La Technique Photographique" 
Manitta, Guglielmo (2024). Storia e origini della fotografia. Dalla camera oscura alle conseguenze dell'annuncio di Daguerre (1500-1839). Il Convivio Editore. ISBN 978-88-3274-7287.

== External links ==

"Photography" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 845–522.
The Silver Canvas: Daguerreotype Masterpieces from the J. Paul Getty Museum Bates Lowry, Isabel Barrett Lowry 1998
A History of Photography from its Beginnings Till the 1920s Archived 2013-02-25 at the Wayback Machine by Dr. Robert Leggat, now hosted by Dr Michael Prichard
The First Photograph at The University of Texas at Austin
The Prokudin-Gorsky Collection at the Library of Congress