{"id":17921,"date":"2012-12-31T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T17:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=8188"},"modified":"2012-12-31T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T17:56:07","slug":"a-short-history-of-the-gif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/a-short-history-of-the-gif\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short History of the GIF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first glimpsed an animated GIF on a Web site (Apple.com circa 1996), I felt like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/And_yet_it_moves\">Galileo<\/a>: &#8220;It moves!&#8221; Now I&#8217;m the cranky old man who says, &#8220;In <em>my<\/em> day, I could compose a whole trip to England [for British Airways] in 9.9kb! I was an LZW poet, I tell you!&#8221; And so, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/MOVINGTHESTILL.PADDLE8.COM\"><em>Moving The Still<\/em><\/a> is right up my posterized alley.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/54791694?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;badge=0&amp;color=ff9933\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first glimpsed an animated GIF on a Web site (Apple.com circa 1996), I felt like Galileo: &#8220;It moves!&#8221; Now I&#8217;m the cranky old man who says, &#8220;In my day, I could compose a whole trip to England [for British Airways] in 9.9kb! I was an LZW poet, I tell you!&#8221; And so, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17921"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}