Happy Birthday, GIF.
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The very first GIF, or graphics interchange format, was created on June 15, 1987.
Intoduced by Compuserve, it was an easy way to transfer images in a compressed format over the incredibly slow modem connections that most of know and remember. Screeeeee brrr brrr screeeeeeeeee, just in case you forgot.
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On this day 25 years ago, Alexander Trevor, former chief technical officer, and inventor Steve Wilwhite released the first animated GIF, which allows for compressed photos to be released on a time delay. Wilwhite also clears up the matter on how exactly GIF is pronounced.
“Choosy developers choose GIF,” said Wilwhite. Apparently, it really is pronounced like the peanut butter.
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Source:
dailydot