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15th October 2009 - Link Blog

"I made the first animated under construction icon". twoleftfeet on MetaFilter describes how he created the first ever Under Construction animation in 1995, after discovering his server-push animations could be replaced by the exciting new animated GIF.

Posted 15th October 2009 at 2:11 pm

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