Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF.

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF.
Date	2016-08-25 01:29 +0000
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On 2016-08-24, Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> wrote:
> On 24/08/16 11:32, Rich wrote:
>> http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21457/the-gif-is-dead-long-live-the-gif/
>>
>> Quoting from the URL above:
>>
>>    November 5, 1999, was Burn All GIFs Day. Had you visited its homepage
>>    that Friday, you would have seen the movement's game plan laid out as
>>    plainly as its name: "On Burn All GIFs Day, all GIF users will gather at
>>    Unisys and burn all their GIF files." This, alongside a selection of
>>    pointedly anti-GIF imagery - all proudly PNG files.
>>
>>    Despite the obvious joke of setting files on fire, acknowledged with a
>>    winking plea to "extinguish all GIFs before leaving the vicinity," the
>>    anger was real and the mission was earnest: to free the web from the
>>    scourge of the GIF once and for all.
>
> The Unisys GIF patent has expired[*], but folks still want to burn them 
> for old times sakes.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html
>
> * - read the footnote.
>

The GIF is also a lot different than it used to be, corresponding with
modern computers' greater ability and memory/capacity.  Gone is the
spinning, 16 bit "Under Construction" graphic.  Now it's used to show quick
clips of video, and there are clever mpg2gif converters that make it happen. 
IMGUR.com is full of them, and even I enjoy them.  (Better than Flash!)

GIF fills a niche no other format does, for better or for worse.

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The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-08-24 10:32 +0000
  Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-08-24 14:32 +0100
    Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-08-24 16:39 +0000
    Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-08-25 01:29 +0000
      Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Antoine Delatour <bin.bin1@live.fr> - 2016-08-27 13:55 +0200
        Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-08-27 14:42 +0100
        Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-08-27 19:56 +0000
          Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2016-08-29 14:09 +0100
            Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 15:33 -0500
              Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-08-29 20:37 +0000
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 15:59 -0500
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 20:05 -0700
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-08-30 10:16 +0000
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-08-30 18:20 +0100
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-08-30 19:59 +0200
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-08-30 20:03 +0200
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 20:38 -0500
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-08-31 12:35 +0200
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2016-08-31 19:03 +0100
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-31 22:11 -0500
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2016-09-01 09:21 +0300
              Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 15:44 -0500
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-08-29 20:24 -0400
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Zed <zed@blah.invalid> - 2016-08-30 11:19 +0000
                Re: The GIF Is Dead. Long Live the GIF. Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-08-30 20:04 +0200

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