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Re:ESR: Ego is for little people by davi on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @11:25AM (#933309)
That's right. People asked about this in the comments on the post. His answers are here:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1404#comment-242133

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1404#comment-242156

Bottom line: libgif and libpng.

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Re:ESR: Ego is for little people by tptacek on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @11:57AM (#933397)
CompuServe described GIF, and then Gershon Elber and I made an open-source implementation that became ubiquitous

Worth noting that multiple years span the time between when Elber actually wrote giflib and when ESR added 2 functions and 3 utilities to it.

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