https://locodigital.com.br/en/tags/web/Recent content in Web on LocodigitalHugoen-USMon, 15 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/the-gif-at-39-from-compuserve-1987-to-today/Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/the-gif-at-39-from-compuserve-1987-to-today/<p>On 15 June 1987, a CompuServe programmer named Steve Wilhite published the specification for an image format nobody expected to last decades. The GIF — Graphics Interchange Format — was created to solve a prosaic problem: transmitting colour images over 2,400 bps modems without choking the connection. Today, 39 years on, it is still the lingua franca of memes.</p> <h2>The problem the GIF solved</h2> <p>CompuServe, in 1987, was one of the largest online networks in the United States, long before the web existed. It was a commercial dial-up service — think of a paid proto-internet where people exchanged files and messages through slow terminals.</p>