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Re:Ask HN: What is the oldest image online in which the link... by apostacy on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @11:55PM (#26022754)
It's from Urusei Yatsura[1]. It indeed looks like a bunch of Anime stuff. Scans of animation cells and other ephemera. It would have taken awhile to download on a modem.

The HTTP header is reporting:

curl -I "http://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/pictures..." | grep Last-Modified

Last-Modified: Tue, 05 Jul 1988 22:00:00 GMT

But it's just forwarding the filesystem mtime.

There's no exif data for this image, which totally checks out because it predates the exif format.

[1]: https://uruseiyatsura.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

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