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Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

As Web standards have moved on, a particular 1990s library of GIFs has been hard to effectively archive and was at risk of being lost forever. So I swooped in, wrote some hacky code, and now a few thousand low-res images have been saved for posterity. Hurrah, I guess?
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Jul 12, 2026Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs by birdculture14924

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