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Credit to Author: Rachel Pick| Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2017 13:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank god for the Internet Archive. Without its efforts, entire treasure troves of data would be lost to linkrot, software obsolescence, and the sands of time. Like this gigantic cache<\/a> of early computer graphics, originally published by Walnut Creek Software over 25 years ago on a CD-ROM.<\/p>\n

It’s called GIFs Galore, and true to its name, it contains thousands and thousands of GIFs. Most of them aren’t animated, because this CD-ROM was published in August 1992, a month before the jpeg was even released, back when the GIF file format was still one of the better choices for a static image.<\/p>\n

I was tipped off to this wonderful find by Twitter user Taizou, who loved the GIFs so much he made a Twitter bot<\/a> that delivers one of these magical images per hour. If you don’t have the patience to sort through such a huge download yourself, it’s a Motherboard-Recommended Follow (\u2122).<\/p>\n

The 600+ MB file is organized into subfolders that include “Star Trek,” “Fantasy,” “Sci_Fi,” and intriguingly, “Hunks.” It delivers. Here are some of my favorites:<\/p>\n

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This woman is tappin’ into some kind of matrix. <\/p>\n

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