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In 1994 I was in high school, and there were no animated GIFs. One way you could make images move in the web browser was to use a mechanism similar to this.I wrote a C program which would load 6 frames of a smiley face animation and would feed them sequentially, in an endless loop, to anyone who requested the image. Mosaic was happy to animate them.I get called in to the web mistress's office. The web server is down. We had a donated Silicon Graphics Origin server, if my memory serves me correctly. This was a beefy machine.The cgi-bin C program would load 6 images, as fast as it possibly could, and dump them into a network socket. It would not throttle. It would not check if the client disconnected. It had one job. It did it efficiently, and ruthlessly.Poor server.