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Re:Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large ... by logicallee on Sunday November 02, 2014 @04:19PM (#8548145)
Wait, did I read that second one right? A streaming gif that is created/updated in real time by the server (i.e. the later frames don't even exist as the browser starts loading the asset)? What a hack!
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Re:Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large ... by mackwic on Sunday November 02, 2014 @05:29PM (#8548361)
Before websockets, some hackers used gifs as an one-way raw socket. Very impressive stuff.

Example project: https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets

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