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submitted 1 week ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca

I mashed my keyboard and that Wikipedia article came up.

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[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago
[-] 7uWqKj@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

You’re confusing it with TGIF, or Today’s Girls in Files, an ancient file format for animated erotica with poor colour depth.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Tagged Image File Format

It was created before creativity was discovered.

[-] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

I don't know about fax machines but a lot of scanners used it. You can also have multi-page .tiff files of lossless images, though they're generally huge files.

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