printHow PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled Kim Kardashian’s back-end (SFW) — The Message — Medium
by thenewgreen
On November 11th 2014, the art-and-nightlife magazine PAPER "broke the Internet" when it put a Jean-Paul Goude photograph of a well-oiled, mostly-nude Kim Kardashian on its cover and posted the same nude photos of Kim Kardashian to its website (NSFW). It linked together all of these things-and other articles, too-under the "#breaktheinternet" hashtag.