The Animated GIF Turns 25 Today

[HardOCP News]

Apparently the animated GIF turned 25 today. Since it's Friday, I think it is only right that we all knock back a few tonight in celebration.

 

[MavericK]

 

[Safety]

The Animated GIF Turns 25 Today

The young *.GIF was soon followed by his younger brother 'Hot linking'.

 

[HardOCP News]

The young *.GIF was soon followed by his younger brother 'Hot linking'.

LOL!!

 

[LeninGHOLA]

Hot, deep and only 25.

 

[ZenDragon]

Sufficient cause to celebrate. Good as any!

 

[Red Falcon]

Congrats gif, TGIF!

 

[ir0nw0lf]

And the age old follow-up: what is the proper pronunciation of .gif? *ducks for cover*

 

[friedchicken]

I am at the pub right now celebrating. Happy 25!

 

[sfsuphysics]

And the age old follow-up: what is the proper pronunciation of .gif? *ducks for cover*

*pulls pin*

There's no J in that bitch!!!

*throws and runs*

 

[az_max]

Choosy perverts choose GIF!

 

[DeathPrincess]

Why are .gif's always so small when viewed? Serious question. I know I can zoom, just askin'.

These aren't. (click them!)

Gifs tend to be smalls because they are usually "pixel art" and doing giant pixel art is time consuming (also most peoples monitors used to be around 800px wide so a bigger then 100px gif would be stupid huge).

 

[ninjaturtle]

animated GIF turned 25 today

Choosy perverts choose GIF!

Yep!

What would we do w/out .gif?!?!?!?

or....

but at the end of the day, we....

for the .gif

Did I break the forum yet?

 

[MindBuster]

And the age old follow-up: what is the proper pronunciation of .gif? *ducks for cover*

The inventor of the format once said in an interview "...and it's pronounced JIF!"

 

[DrDoug]

Apparently the animated GIF turned 25 today. Since it's Friday, I think it is only right that we all knock back a few tonight in celebration.

You mean a few extra ones, right?

 

[BlackThought]

DANCE MOFOS

 

[westrock2000]

And the age old follow-up: what is the proper pronunciation of .gif? *ducks for cover*

89a?

Did I win the Internets?

 

[westrock2000]

I was always a fan of GIF because it supported Alpha unlike JPEG and Bitmap, and up until maybe Windows XP time was more compatible with everything then PNG. Now I prefer PNG unless its a very low color complexity image then I use GIF since it may only be 5KB and have no compression artifacts (compared to JPEG, not PNG).

 

[caddys83]

Ok ill ask. What was the first gif?

 

[caddys83]

Damn no edit I mean What was the first "animated" gif

 

[firas]

 

[Wiseguy2001]

DANCE MOFOS

ok.....

 

[BlackThought]

^^^

Bring it

 

[DJS4000]

don't really care.

 

[octoberasian]

Happy Birthday .GIF!

However, I prefer these fancy GIFs nowadays called "cinemagraphs."

Have bacon:

Or this:

Source: http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2011/07/cinemagraphs.html

 

[BloodyIron]

Did you pay compuserv the licensing fees for that gif file? I thought not...

 

[Allos]