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> No, every mobile can process a 80ties picture format in tiny resolutions. 90ies computers could do that without a problem without any allocation an needed only a fraction of their cpu

GIF's are really a nineties format (90ties??), the animation and alpha components weren't added to the standard until 1989, and adoption wasn't widespread until after then.

You're also overlooking the fact that you simply didn't get 4.5MB+ GIFs in the nineties like the example given because it would take ten minutes to download that on a 56K modem. I must resign myself to the fact some people never grew up with dial-up!

Animated gifs in 1995 were rather different to animated gifs now.



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