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Why two tiny mountain peaks became one of the internet’s most famous images

  • Written by Christopher Schaberg, Director of Public Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis
Why two tiny mountain peaks became one of the internet’s most famous imagesThe icon has various iterations, but all convey the same meaning: an image should be here.Christopher Schaberg, CC BY-SA

It’s happened to you countless times: You’re waiting for a website to load, only to see a box with a little mountain range where an image should be. It’s the placeholder icon for a “missing image.”

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