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GIF

GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) is a file format developed in the mid-1980s by CompuServe for use in photo-quality computer bitmap graphics images and now commonly used. Gif images use a 256 byte palette of 24-bit colours, limiting the image to 256 colours, but allowing each colour to have 256 shades of each of red, green and blue.
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