Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:06 pm   Reply with quote         

the first ever animated .gif on the inter net, not your first, the first ever, i blieve it was CompuServe that made it posable, i got some old clasics but i'm wandering how it went from pitmaps to animated .gifs,
one of my oldest, but i know thay go back way farther,

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Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:16 pm   Reply with quote         

He (or maybe she) is quite possibly one of the oldest animated gif-fish on the internet:

Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:16 pm   Reply with quote         

Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:43 pm   Reply with quote         

Another site recounting A Brief History of GIF Animation.

EDIT: More about The GIF Controversy concerning the Unisys / Compuserv patents, which expired in 2004.

Still haven't found "the first animated .gif," but I'm still searching. The information uncovered thus far has been interesting... I had no idea that the simple little .gif would have such a complicated history.

Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:06 pm   Reply with quote         

Splodge, I didn't look for somebody else's first animated GIF. I did, however, look for mine:

"Cake Dog" from March 2007. Seems like yesterday.

Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:22 pm   Reply with quote         

All right, I did look. I found myself mirroring cafn8d's searches. Diligent as she was, she overlooked this:

The entire history of the GIF is laid bare at: http://www.zzzptm.com/ani1.html

Hey. Why don't we have a winking or tongue-in-cheek smiley?

Tue Jul 07, 2009 8:05 am   Reply with quote         

Tawiskaro wrote:

All right, I did look. I found myself mirroring cafn8d's searches. Diligent as she was, she overlooked this:

The entire history of the GIF is laid bare at: http://www.zzzptm.com/ani1.html

Excellent work, Tawiskaro!

Tawiskaro wrote:

Hey. Why don't we have a winking or tongue-in-cheek smiley?

Ya mean like this?

Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:06 am   Reply with quote         

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Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:42 am   Reply with quote         

Not the oldest, but it is one of the best.....

Tue Jul 07, 2009 9:56 am   Reply with quote         

animated gif's are dead.

Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:10 am   Reply with quote         

volkswes wrote:

Not the oldest, but it is one of the best.....

hahahahahahahah