(thing) by Frater 219 Fri Jan 21 2000 at 19:13:36
The GIF standard, version 89a, supports animation. The only use to which this is usually put is making crappy flashing and flickering banner ads, which pop up distractingly at the edges of Web pages.

Along with the blink tag and JavaScript, animated GIFs are one of the major banes of the Web.

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