[Found here, and here. The middle one’s mine based on this image.]
Category: GIF Animations
The .Gif Friday Post No.240 – Pondering Sloth, Godzilla Madhouse & Catbox WTF
The .Gif Friday Post No.239 – Cat Snort, GTFO Cat & Shadow Cats
The .Gif Friday Post No. 237 – Clam Licker, Nancy’s Trip & The Dance of the Triops
The .Gif Friday Post No.236 – Psyche Ducky, ChocoLoLo & “STOP IT!”
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 No.234 – How To Walk & Victorian Cheesecake
Top .gif is actually three .gifs (1-2-3-2-1), modified and animated from this image. Bottom two lenticulations were created from a couple of Victorian era stereoscopic photos that I lifted from here.
[Update: I found the link to the Victorian bimbo pics at Gimcrack. Sorry for the oversight, nursem.]
Tacky Raccoons 