Sunday, May 12, 2019

Unraveling The JPEG

Awesome piece from Parametric Press by Omar Shehata.

It’s easy to take for granted that you can send a picture to a friend without worrying about what device, browser, or operating system they’re using, but things weren’t always this way. By the early 1980s, computers could store and display digital images, but there were many competing ideas about how best to do that. You couldn’t just send an image from one computer to another and expect it to work.

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