These days, this type of application is only useful for aesthetic purposes … but not so long ago, there was a time when animated GIF files were sometimes used to hide viruses …
Animated Gifs are still popular on today’s Internet, albeit for different purposes. Back in the beginning days of the public Internet, webmasters used them to add animated contents to their websites. This soon died out when they realized that repeating ten second animates had a damaging effect to their website’s reputation.
