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August 1 is the 213th day of the year (214th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 152 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 30 BC – ...
In August 2013, Giphy expanded beyond a search engine to allow users to post, embed and share GIFs on Facebook. [10] [11] [12] Giphy was then recognized as a Top 100 Website of 2013, according to PC Magazine. [13] Three months later, Giphy integrated with Twitter to enable users to share GIFs by simply sharing a GIF's URL. [14]
On April 25, 2017, Tenor introduced an app that makes GIFs available in MacBook Pro's Touch Bar. [10] [11] Users can scroll through GIFs and tap to copy it to the clipboard. [12] On September 7, 2017, Tenor announced an SDK for Unity and Apple's ARKit. It allows developers to integrate GIFs into augmented reality apps and games. [13] [14] [15] [7]
1907 – Robert Baden-Powell held the first Scout camp at Brownsea Island in Dorset, England, beginning the Scouting movement. page numbers needed 1927 – In the Nanchang uprising , the first major engagement in the Chinese Civil War , Communist forces seized control over the entire city of Nanchang from the Kuomintang .
Additionally, GIFs frequently include overlaid text or captions to provide context, deliver punchlines, and boost the overall relatability of the digital medium. The layering structure assists viewers in understanding the message, thereby amplifying its impact and enhancing the humor, making it more relevant, and engaging.
GIF was one of the first two image formats commonly used on Web sites, the other being the black-and-white XBM. [5] In September 1995 Netscape Navigator 2.0 added the ability for animated GIFs to loop. While GIF was developed by CompuServe, it used the Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) lossless data compression algorithm patented by Unisys in 1985.
The August 1st aerobatic display team is named after the founding day of the PLA and in turn, the day marking PLA Day. The Flag of the People's Liberation Army features the two Chinese characters "八一" ("8, 1") as a reference to the anniversary. [12]
Yorkshire Day is a yearly celebration on 1 August to promote the historic county of Yorkshire, in England. [1] It was celebrated by the Yorkshire Ridings Society in 1975, initially in Beverley, as "a protest movement against the local government re-organisation of 1974".