Video: A Delightful History of the Animated GIF, in 2 Minutes
The Atlantic blog offers this tribute to the animated GIF – the once maligned but now embraced moving “still” photo. Last week, there was an entire festival dedicated to the GIF as “high art.”
This two-minute video was produced in conjunction with the festival. It “chronicles the graphic interchange format’s journey from the late 1980s through the dot com bubble up to today’s multi-platform media world — in claymation. Not only did the GIF pave the way for future digital art memes, but even the savviest of media creators cannot decide whether to pronounce it with a hard or soft ‘g’.”
The answer? “Inventor Steve Whilhite pronounced it like the peanut butter brand.”
Click play below to watch this charming short:
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Chris
