Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web: 30 Years Ago, the Standard Became the Dominant Way we Share Digital Photos

For roughly three decades, the JPEG has been the World Wide Web's primary image format. But it wasn't the one the Web started with. In fact, the first mainstream graphical browser, NCSA Mosaic, didn't initially support in-line JPEG files—just in-line GIFs, along with a couple of other formats forgotten to history. However, the JPEG had many advantages over the format it quickly usurped.