Tag: .gif
The .Gif Friday Post No.380 – If Dogs Were Cats and Cats Were Dogs & Sky Swing
The .Gif Friday Post No.235 – 3 Polaroid LOLS & The First .GIF
16 June was the 25th Birthday of GIFs, according to Fast Company. We missed it, but we’re going to make up for the oversight.
“Choosy programmers choose GIF,” quipped Steve Wilhite of CompuServe, after he created the GIF image compression file format in 1987. It allowed for sequenced upload delays necessary for embedded animations. There’s a nice history of the now ubiquitous .gif on Daily Dot.
Animations above via Cari Vander Yacht. Tip o’ the tarboosh to OddMan for the GIF Birthday link, and here’s the Tacky Raccoons GIF Archive that includes Bunk’s Originals.
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UPDATE: In the interview with Daily Dot (linked above) Steve Wilhite said that he thought the first .GIF animation was of an airplane. This is one of the first that I ever captured, several computers ago:
Here it is, all blowed up, in 5 frames of pixellated glory:
Is this the first .gif animation Wilhite was referring to? I don’t know, but it’s a contender.
[Update 2: Fixed broken link to Daily Dot.]
The .gif Friday Post 67: Vulcans Then and Now
TGIF: The .GIF Friday Post 39 – Dead Cow Walking
TGIF: The .gif Friday Post 34 – Awesome
Awesome and overwhelming. Here’s a VERY small sampler of what’s to come if you click on this overwhelming awesome Japanese .gif site. And I know that you know exactly what it means, as I do as well. Keep your heads down and watch.
Translated from the Japanese via WorldLingo Website translator, we get this gem of oddness:
“You who take the direction of the project where it chases after unique characteristic obstinately and loses sight of original purpose and that way had become the discontinuation.”
Since I don’t “take the direction of the project, etc.,” it’s gotta be one of you guys, so CUT IT OUT.
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