Graphic Interchange Format
Graphic Interchange Format files, commonly known by it’s acronym and file name GIF was developed by a team headed by Steve Wilhite for the company called CompuServe. GIF files is a bitmap image type that had a wide appeal on the Internet due to it being able to support animations and utilising lossless data compression which allowed the file size to be kept to a minimum without losing any visual quality.
Originally GIFs were used throughout the internet, depicting animations or funny clips. As technology has advanced the use for GIF files have changed in purpose, since bandwith limitations are much greater and the introduction of video support in HTML5, the need for GIF has changed. Recently, GIF have been used in online communication services such as Facebook Messenger, where users can search a database of GIFs to use in communciation.
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