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Click the GIF icon. Search for a specific GIF or browse by category. Mouse over the GIF you want to use. Click the GIF to insert it into your email. The GIF will be inserted wherever your cursor is placed in the email message.
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.
In addition to popular use on social media, the image has been licensed for commercial use, [3] [4] and was used by the White House to promote immigration reform. [5] In mid-2015, the Griner family used it to promote a GoFundMe campaign for money to pay for the father’s kidney transplant .
An early use of a throbber occurred in the NCSA Mosaic web browser of the early 1990s, which featured an NCSA logo that animated while Mosaic downloaded a web page. As the user could still interact with the program, the pointer remained normal (and not a busy symbol, such as an hourglass); therefore, the throbber provided a visual indication that the program was performing an action.
General-use emoji, such as sports, actions, and weather, can readily be traced back to Kurita's emoji set. [37] Notably absent from the set were pictograms that demonstrated emotion. The yellow-faced emoji in current use evolved from other emoticon sets and cannot be traced back to Kurita's work. [37]
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A different, but related, use of the term "emoticon" is found in the Unicode Standard, referring to a subset of emoji that display facial expressions. [74] The standard explains this usage with reference to existing systems, which provided functionality for substituting certain textual emoticons with images or emoji of the expressions in ...
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