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Following an agreement between Unisys and CompuServe to collect LZW patent fees from authors of GIF-supporting software, today in 1995 Thomas Boutell published a first draft of a Portable Bitmap Format (aka PNG), a better, smaller, more extensible replacement that made GIF largely obsolete.
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