(1/6) Whether you pronounce it GIF or GIF, you’ve got to admit that it changed the game…
#gifs
(2/6) The problem?
Slow dial-up speeds, incompatible computer systems and images too large to send efficiently.
(3/6) The solution?
Compressing images so they wouldn't lose their sharpness, would load quickly and could appear on any computer …GIFs.
(4/6) The first ever GIF uploaded by the creator Stephen Wilhite (1987) was of a clip art airplane soaring through a pixelated sky, have you seen this?
(5/6) Animated GIFs became popular beginning in 1995 and they weren’t as refined in a sense as they are now so back in the day websites would use flashing "under construction" signs to show it was a WIP.
(6/6) I think it was around the 2000s that its popularity skyrocketed. In fact, I was actually considering putting out this tweet thread only through GIFs. And it's crazy that it's possible!
Thank you and rest easy Mr. Stephen Wilhite.
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