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Monday, March 7, 2011

A Cool.gif

When I was a kid, I was a huge web-dork. I spent inordinate amounts of time with html and java-script. But you need something cool to put within all that code, so I was soon spending inordinate amounts of time with Paintshop Pro and its accompanying .gif creator. I don't know how many hours up through college I spent creating .gifs, but I was awesome at it.  Remember, in the late 1990's, before we had easy to stream video (you know, before I could watch downtown Cairo live on my phone while on a sidewalk in Manhattan) .gifs were an effing big deal. It's an image! It moves! Now .gifs are like a pair of chucks or Vans: sure, we have the technology for better, more comfortable shoes, but the old-skool shoes are just so cool. .Gifs are just so cool.  Kinda as cool as this high-five:


Now in 2011 to create a .gif you go to a website, enter the youtube link, and press Create .gif. Not as exciting a process, but just as exciting a result.

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