JPEG

“”High-quality photographic images on web pages proved to be one of the killer applications for the success of JPEG. JPEG was included in web browsers from as early as February 1993. Thus, the boom in the web was parallel to the popularity of JPEG. In the second half of the 1990s, another killer application was digital photography, which got an additional killer application in the early 200s, namely digital photography by mobile and from 2007 smart phones.

History

“”The JPEG was formally created in November 1986 in Parsippany, NJ, USA. The founding members (about 15) were individuals, but also had formal links to ISO TC97 SC2/WG8 (International Organization for Standardization - Technical Committee 97 : Character sets and coding, Subcommittee 2 : Character sets and information coding, Working Group 8 : Coded Representation of Picture and Audio Information) or the CCITT SGVIII NIC group (International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee -- now ITU -- , Study Group VIII, new image communication). Among them were the leaders Hiroshi Yasuda (NTT, Japan), convener of Subcommittee 2 Working Group 8, and Manfred Woorlitzer (CCITT SGVIII special rappourteur), who had a substantial role in the initiation, at March 1986, and founding of JPEG. The founding members recognized that both SC2/WG8 and the CCITT SGVIII NIC group had similar goals in the development of a still picture compression and coding standard. Nevertheless, the JPEG was a group of photographic coding experts, created on an ad hoc basis, and registered formally nowhere as a formal entity. It consisted of experts from ISO TC97/SC2/WG8 and (ITU) CCITT SGVIII Q.18 in their individual expert capacities, not representing their companies. These two formal ISO and CCITT groups were "parents" of JPEG because they were informed about waht was going on in JPEG and regular feedback to JPEG was given. They developed and wrote the JPEG specification that became the basis for ITU-T T.81

—István Sebestyén (June 2020) "Some Little-Known Aspects of The History of the JPEG Still Picture Coding Standard (1986 - 1993)" ITU Journal : ICT Discoveries Vol 3(1), 12 June 2020