The oldest GIF? - "BOB_89A.GIF"
reddit / bbs

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french_mouse · 2022-03-10 18:27

One of the first GIFs I remember seeing from a BBS (that wasn't R
rated!)

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banksy_h8r · 2022-03-10 22:10

AAAAaackchually.... that's the GIF89 reencoding, the oldest would be
the original in GIF87 format.  Provided that really is the oldest
image encoded as a gif, which seems plausible.

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ILikeBumblebees · 2022-03-11 00:06

The thread that OP links to even explicitly includes older images
posted right above this one.

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banksy_h8r · 2022-03-11 00:15

I saw, it's a great post.  In my pedantic post I was specifically
referring to `BOB_89A.GIF`.

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Practical_Cartoonist · 2022-03-11 01:02

Holy shit.
[That last one](http://i.imgur.com/MKIH67q.gif) had a big effect on
me.
It unlocked a memory I didn't know I had.

I can't remember if I used cshow specifically, but I suddenly remember
in about 1990 using a GIF viewer to look at that exact same gif and it
rendered exactly like that.
I don't know why, but for some reason I miss the days when computers
weren't fast enough to display an image all at once, and you could
watch it render from the top down.

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RooR67 · 2022-03-11 02:38

I miss EGA and VGA graphics lol

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cjxmtn · 2022-03-16 04:21

2400 baud modem, 1 horizontal line at a time. You had to have patience
for porn back then.

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4_bit_forever · 2022-03-29 21:40

Check out r/vintagepixelart and r/vintagecgi