Gifs
(Pronounced Jifs)
Way back in the early days of the internet gifs looked like this:
Kinda simple right? Well, the internet back then wasn’t very fast. If you had a home computer loading up web pages could take a couple of minutes. Which is pretty wild because now people get pretty upset if they’er webpage refuses to load in under 10 seconds. So gifs had to be simple and only contained a few colors and frames per image. So people used them to spruce up their websites and make them look cool.
But as the technology advanced to allow high speed internet the gif did too. Allowing for higher quality gifs with more colors more frames and more uses.
Recently thanks to websites like Twitter and Tumblr, gifs have become a way of telling a story. Either by being small quick snippets of TV shows or Youtube videos, or by being incorporated into art.
There’s even a million different ways to create gifs. There’s websites that will help you take video and create gifs. There are apps that well let you make them right on your phone so you can send them to your friends. And there’s programs like Photoshop and Gimp that give you more controll over the final product.
Gifs have transformed into a brand new way of viewing information. The internet was given a simple file format and have created art and stories from it and molded it for its personal use. And that’s pretty rad.
