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CompuServe encouraged the adoption of GIF by providing downloadable conversion utilities for many computers. By December 1987, for example, an Apple IIGS user could view pictures created on an Atari ST or Commodore 64. [4] GIF was one of the first two image formats commonly used on Web sites, the other being the black-and-white XBM. [5]
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 went on to become the de facto standard for 8-bit color images on the Internet until PNG (1996) became a widely supported alternative ...
The work is developed as a GIF animation, with each frame lasting 655,090 milliseconds, which is approximately 10.92 minutes. The total number of frames is 48,140,288 [6] making the duration of the animation 1000 years. [7] The GIF file contains a loop function which will automatically, after the last frame has played, start the animation all over.
Some productions may be recognized as Flash animations, but in practice, computer animation with a relatively two-dimensional appearance, stark outlines and little shading, will generally be considered "traditional animation" even if it is created on a computer. The first feature movie made on computers, without a camera, is The Rescuers Down ...
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World Superstars of Wrestling, Inc. partnered with software maker VDO and Webstar (ISP), under Scott Crompton and George Zhen, broadcasting one of the first video based websites. Shot on location in Tampa Bay, Florida, Matsuda and Brody produced six one hour episodes, dubbed the first webisodes with hosts Gordon Solie and Bruno Sammartino.
After the release of YouTube in 2005, video-based memes such as Rickrolling and viral videos such as "Gangnam Style" and the Harlem shake emerged. [ 19 ] [ 24 ] The appearance of social media websites such as Twitter , Facebook , and Instagram provided additional mediums for the spread of memes, [ 25 ] and the creation of meme-generating ...
Virgin Australia crew members were allegedly sexually assaulted and robbed in one of Fiji's nightclub areas on New Year's Day, the island country's Deputy Prime Minister Viliame Gavoka announced.