What to know about GIFs Aaron Shifflett
1997 This is when animated GIFS begin
History GIF was first established in 1987 Steve Wilhite and a team of programmers from CompuServe developed the file format. Animation was not in the picture for these developers What it's intended use was to take files and make them smaller without taking away any data (Limer, “The GIF is dead”)
2003 Myspace increased the popularity of Gifs
Present day Social media is most likely brought GIFs back (tumblr) Bringing back retro things According to the article: “The Surging Popularity of Gifs in Digital Culture”, Google and other big company are adding features to search for GIFs
Websites to make GIFs Loogix Giphy BloGIF MakeaGif
My GIFs Creation https://giphy.com/channel/aaronshifflett
Work Cited Johnson, Paddy. “A Brief History of Animated GIF Art, Part One.” Artnet News, Artnet News, 23 Apr. 2015, news.artnet.com/art-world/a-brief-history-of-animated-gif-art-part-one-69060. Limer, Eric. “THE GIF IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE GIF.” Popular Mechanics, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2018, www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21457/the-gif-is-dead-long-live-the-gif/.