Is there a GIF history?

History. CompuServe introduced GIF on 15 June 1987 to provide a color image format for their file downloading areas. This replaced their earlier run-length encoding format, which was black and white only. GIF became popular because it used Lempel–Ziv–Welch data compression.

What is the purpose of GIF?

GIF image files are commonly used on the web to display graphics and logos. They also support basic animation, which means they’re a popular file format for memes on social media sites.

Are GIFs dying?

According to its HTTP Archive, GIFs now comprise 29% of all images on the web’s million most popular sites, down from 41% two years ago. At this rate, GIFs could practically disappear from the web by the end of this decade.

How do you use other people’s GIFs on Tumblr?

When you make a post you can press the ‘return’ key and then a little plus will show up. Click the plus icon and you’ll see some icons (a camera, a projector and the world ‘GIF’ Click ‘GIF’ A window will pop open and you can use it to search for any shows or people you’d like to reblog a gif about.

What are the 3 types of GIF?

There are a lot of different types of GIFs. For simplicity, we classify the different types of GIFs into 3 major categories: video-based, animation-based, and stickers. Video-based GIFs are the most traditional GIF that you’re probably familiar with. They feature short clips of video content.

How do GIF work?

Unlike the JPEG image format (. jpg), GIFs typically use a compression algorithm referred to as LZW encoding that does not degrade the image quality and allows for easy storing of the file in bytes. The multiple images within a single GIF file are displayed in succession to create an animated clip or a short movie.

How do you find the origin of a GIF?

Top 4 Reverse GIF Search Engines

1. Google Images. Google images is an image search engine owned by Google.
2. TinEye. TinEye is the world’s popular reverse GIF search engine.
3. Bing. Bing has a built-in tool Bing Image Match that allows you to find the source of an image.
4. Yandex.