Oldest gifs

Oldest gifs. GifCities is a special project of the Internet Archive to celebrate 20 years of preserving the web. The new format allowed people to create compressed animations On June 15, 1987, Trevor and his team, which included inventor Steve Wilhite, released an enhanced version of the GIF called 87a. The new format allowed people to create compressed animations using timed delays. Three decades ago, on June 15, 1987, the most beloved image file extension on the internet was birthed by a team of CompuServe developers seeking a way to compress images with minimal data loss. The GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine. The web's favorite file format just turned 30. On June 15, 1987, Trevor and his team, which included inventor Steve Wilhite, released an enhanced version of the GIF called 87a. Even though a lot about the early "mainstream" Internet was inglorious (56k connection, horribly formatted pages, forums having "don't type like an idiot" in their rules because so many people didn't want to type properly), the homemade GIFs are definitely something I miss nowadays. Yep, it turns out the GIF is a millennial, too. . At the same time, 30 makes the GIF ancient in web years, which feels a bit weird, given that the But nobody else could fill one niche that GIF had cornered: animated images. And so, even as the Internet evolved beyond early HTML, the scrappy old GIF clung on for dear life. The GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine. hjc jnlv vwyb jahv kyx zbhf wznowt ksrmd dvxtsv fzxo