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The History of Animated GIFs
GIF (pronounced with a hard or soft G) stands for Graphics Interchange Format and was developed in 1987 by CompuServe. It is a bitmap image format that supports up to 8 bits per pixel. This allows an image to reference a color pallete of 256 unique colors. GIFs that are animated allow for a color pallete of 256 colors per image frame.
The original GIF format was named 87a, but in 1989 CompuServe developed the 89a format which allowed for transparent colors, storage of metadata, text labels and animation delays. GIFs (89a) are one of the most widely used image formats used on the web today.