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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 170 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Wait until she finds out about daemons.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 47 points 6 months ago

Or the rituals I hold in my server room to appease the Omnissiah

[–] netizen@programming.dev 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Baku@aussie.zone 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That's... a great question. What's the purpose of a gif with only one frame?

[–] netizen@programming.dev 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're young. Young enough to have to google my username meaning. Maybe also google what GIF means: Graphics Interchange Format. Long tima go you could find images on the internet, and they were always GIF, because JPG didn't exist.

But yes, it's quite strange nowadays, I agree Oh, yes, I used the net before smileys were a thing :-)

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

I'm not quite that young. Netizen is a "citizen of the internet", IIRC. More specifically, it's a portmanteau of "internet" and "citizen".

I had also heard what the meaning of GIF was, though not so often that I could remember it off the top of my head.

I'm not quite as old as the JPG format, but I do still remember using dial-up. I still remember accidentally logging into the internet when my dad was on the phone one day. I could hear his voice through the computer speakers. I immediately closed the browser. It was something that'd, surprisingly, never happened while I was on the computer before.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The same purpose as a PNG or JPEG?

You know that GIF is not specifically a format for animations, right? It’s just a lossless image format.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it's almost always used for animations. Seeing one that's not animated just feels... weird.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 3 points 6 months ago

Now, that’s just a recent development. 20 years ago it was a common format for images on the interwebs.

[–] Ciel@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

daemons are just minor greek gods (but okay not like many people know that daemon and demon are very diferent things)

I'm pretty sure demons are simply chaotic evil creatures of the Abyss while daemons are neutral evil creatures of Abaddon.