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[Acronym] for __G__raphics __I__nterchange __F__ormat. A FileFormat useful for block colour images created by CompuServe in the 1980's(?). Is famous for Unisys's Submarine Patent. Years after GIF became the defacto standard Unisys turned up one day and said "GIF uses [LZW] compression, we have a patent on that, we want everyone who has a program to generate GIF files to pay us a royalty." This pissed a lot of people off. Some people got so pissed off they created a file format called [PNG] which has the same target as [GIF] but does everything [GIF] does much much better. Most websites now prefer [PNG] over [GIF] files.
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