State of the Art: The GIF Is Dead, Long Live the GIF
November 5, 1999, was “Burn All GIFs Day,” created as a protest against a file format that was already showing its age: The GIF, notes Popular Mechanics, “offered support for a
paltry 256 colors. Its animation capabilities were easily rivaled by a flipbook. It was markedly inferior to virtually every …
Read the whole story at Popular Mechanics.