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The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; / ɡ ɪ f / GHIF or / dʒ ɪ f / JIF, see § Pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.
GIF art has been around since the year 1987, increasingly gaining attention from the audience some years after 2000. [1] one of the earlier implementation of GIF art can be traced back to web design in which they were used as banners, later they were adopted into the greater meme culture as a niche and have now become a staple on the internet through social media most notably from Giphy ...
Tenor is available in numerous keyboards and messaging apps. [9]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.
Co-founder Alex Chung at South by Southwest 2016. Giphy was founded by Alex Chung and Jace Cooke in February 2013. [5] [6] [7] The idea for the business came when the pair was having breakfast, musing on the rising trend of purely visual communication.
Stephen Earl Wilhite [2] (March 3, 1948 – March 14, 2022) was an American computer scientist who worked at CompuServe and was the engineering lead on the team that created the GIF image file format in 1987.
GIF images are restricted to 256 colors with limited compression, but the format is supported in all graphical web browsers and is still widely used. Animations can be generated ad hoc in a browser with the CSS 3 features animations , transitions, and sprites , or also the JavaScript web animations API , by specifying frames or motions of still ...
Legend: File formats: the image or video formats allowed for uploading; IPTC support: support for the IPTC image header . Yes - IPTC headers are read upon upload and exposed via the web interface; properties such as captions and keywords are written back to the IPTC header and saved along with the photo when downloading or e-mailing it
The Hampster Dance is one of the earliest Internet memes.Created in 1998 by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte as a GeoCities page, the dance features rows of animated GIFs of hamsters and other rodents dancing in various ways to a sped-up sample from the song "Whistle-Stop", written and performed by Roger Miller for the 1973 Walt Disney Productions film Robin Hood.