Reaction GIFs are now a form of expression. And services like Giphy and Imgur have made it easier than ever to quickly find a GIF and share a reaction. Reddit, Twitter and Tumblr helped popularized GIFs, making it easy for anyone to quickly share an animated GIF. GIFs were harmless fun because they were simple animations, often with few colors and frames, limiting their file size.įast forward to today-30 years after GIFs were invented-and they’ve have become an art form unto themselves. There were dancing babies and dancing hamsters. And that’s how they were used until Netscape 2.0 came along in 1995 and introduced the looping extension that set GIF animations free, bringing them to life.īack in those days, the internet was under construction, and so was the GIF. GIFs were actually designed to hold multiple images in a single file, kind of like a ZIP file for images. So how did we end up here, in this online world, where GIFs are the go-to format for animations? “ The Graphics Interchange Format is not intended as a platform for animation, even though it can be done in a limited way.” In fact, it says so right there, in black and white, in the GIF89a specification published in 1990:
The GIF file format was never intended to be used for animation or video. How GIFs Became Pseudo Videos in the First Place In this post, I’ll show you just how easy it is to convert GIFs to HTML5 video and achieve incredibly small file sizes for your site.
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