• Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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          7 months ago

          That’s… a great question. What’s the purpose of a gif with only one frame?

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            You’re young. Young enough to have to google my username meaning. Maybe also google what GIF means: Graphics Interchange Format. Long tima go you could find images on the internet, and they were always GIF, because JPG didn’t exist.

            But yes, it’s quite strange nowadays, I agree Oh, yes, I used the net before smileys were a thing :-)

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              I’m not quite that young. Netizen is a “citizen of the internet”, IIRC. More specifically, it’s a portmanteau of “internet” and “citizen”.

              I had also heard what the meaning of GIF was, though not so often that I could remember it off the top of my head.

              I’m not quite as old as the JPG format, but I do still remember using dial-up. I still remember accidentally logging into the internet when my dad was on the phone one day. I could hear his voice through the computer speakers. I immediately closed the browser. It was something that’d, surprisingly, never happened while I was on the computer before.

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            7 months ago

            The same purpose as a PNG or JPEG?

            You know that GIF is not specifically a format for animations, right? It’s just a lossless image format.

            • Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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              7 months ago

              Yeah, but it’s almost always used for animations. Seeing one that’s not animated just feels… weird.

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                7 months ago

                Now, that’s just a recent development. 20 years ago it was a common format for images on the interwebs.

    • SILLY BEAN@lemmygrad.ml
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      7 months ago

      daemons are just minor greek gods (but okay not like many people know that daemon and demon are very diferent things)