It took 14 hours to upload the first picture from Nepal on the Internet!

It took 14 hours to upload the first picture from Nepal on the Internet!

 Interestingly, the first picture uploaded on the internet from Nepal was of Lord Ganesha. An American journalist named Jeff Greenwald posted the picture on the Internet.

He also wrote a news about Mercantile and its email and internet service for the online news portal of Wired, a popular internet magazine.

Since Nepal's initial internet link was only 4.8 KB, it was very challenging to send pictures through it.

In an article published in Reference Wired, Greenwald mentioned that it took Sanjeev Rajbhandari's technician 14 hours to upload the 1 MB PNG image. Rajbhandari is the person who introduced the Internet for the first time in Nepal.

Later, after converting it to JPEG format in a small size of 40 KB, Rajbhandari is remembered as the fastest upload. Thus, in 1995, the first picture from Nepal was uploaded on the Internet, which was sent to Wired in America via email.

Before Skype, there was a company called Vocaltech around 1997/98. Later Intel bought it. Calls could also be made from that platform. At a time when phone calls were very expensive, audio calls became possible through the Internet. But the video call started only after the 2.0 beta version of Skype came in 2005.