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The GIF Turns 30: How an Ancient Format Changed the Internet
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| 5/28/17
| Klint Finley
Posted on 05/28/2017 11:54:51 AM PDT by Lisbon1940
Animated GIFs have transcended their obscure 1990s roots to become a key part of day-to-day digital communication. Some, like Orson Welles clapping or Michael Jackson eating popcorn, have become instantly recognizable shorthand. Others, like Sean Spicer disappearing into the bushesitself a remix of a popular Simpsons GIFserve up political satire. The GIF does double duty as both expression and as badge of digital literacy. Not bad for an image standard that pre-dates the web itself.
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; History
KEYWORDS: compuserve; gif; gifs; gifthread; happybirthday
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Interesting history of the animated GIF. Where would FR be without it?
To: Lisbon1940
The Hillary ones are the best.
To: Lisbon1940
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posted on
05/28/2017 12:03:59 PM PDT
by
Brandonmark
(Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
To: Lisbon1940
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posted on
05/28/2017 12:04:31 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
To: Lisbon1940
To: Lisbon1940
Saw my first animated GIF around 1994-5 because you actually had to wait for Netscape to come out with an upgrade that allowed them to be visible!
But boy it was like the same feeling people must have had seeing a moving picture for the first time!
And all I was looking at was a spinning ball (on C-Net) with the word GIF on it.
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05/28/2017 12:05:26 PM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
To: Lisbon1940
Excellent thread!
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posted on
05/28/2017 12:06:10 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
"Oh... it's YOU."
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posted on
05/28/2017 12:07:07 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
To: Lisbon1940
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posted on
05/28/2017 12:09:13 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Lisbon1940
Groper's greatest hits
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posted on
05/28/2017 12:11:14 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
To: Lisbon1940
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posted on
05/28/2017 12:12:20 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
To: Lisbon1940
Of course the yutes have no idea where gifs came from.
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posted on
05/28/2017 12:13:02 PM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
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05/28/2017 12:14:47 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: Lisbon1940
Did this article even address the history about the GIF? The last sentence I see says, ‘not bad for a format that
Predated the internet’. Is there more to the article than this? When I clicked on the link for article it wouldn’t open up unless I had an Apple news app.
To: al baby
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05/28/2017 12:16:27 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: Lisbon1940; All
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05/28/2017 12:17:04 PM PDT
by
musicman
(The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
To: Fiddlstix
I'll see your dancing baby and raise you a dancing cat
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posted on
05/28/2017 12:18:31 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
To: musicman
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posted on
05/28/2017 12:18:54 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: NohSpinZone
>>Of course the yutes have no idea where gifs came from.
They evolved from random bits. Any public school student knows that.
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posted on
05/28/2017 12:20:18 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
To: Jane Long
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05/28/2017 12:20:25 PM PDT
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dfwgator
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