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Vox7y
The GIF is 30 years old. It didn’t just shape the internet — it grew up with the internet.
The emergence of Flash animation, JavaScript, and other more sophisticated tools for transmitting video and images online outstripped the GIF’s usefulness. Still, the GIF remained a useful way ...
The Sun7y
What is a GIF, who invented the image format, how is it pronounced and what’s an animated meme?
A GIF, or Graphical Interchange Format, is a bitmap image format that was invented on June 15 1987 by a US software writer called Steve Wilhite for CompuServe. Gifs are highly compressed images ...