5. Netscape and Mosaic Founding Engineer, Lou Montulli
Internet History Podcast
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The Afterlife of the Animated Jiff
Every ad that we ran for three years were animated jiffs exactly. Java pretty much died as a client side language on the web and we were also working on JavaScript which did did all the things that Java kind of hoped to do within the browser well could you have possibly imagined the afterlife that the animated jiff has had these days? I love animated gifts most of the time it's nice to see that we don't have all those quite as annoying advertisements as they used to be with the video formats, he says.
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