Mosaic browser then evolved into the foundation for Netscape Navigator (shown below, right), which was released in December 1994. Soon after that in January 1993, one of the first popular web browsers Mosaic (shown below, left) was unveiled with capability to embed images into an HTML page. In 1991, Tim Berners Lee opened the web to the public with the launch of the World Wide Web project. The very first GIF depicting an airplane was presented by CompuServe in 1987, according to the inventor Steve Wilhite's interview with The Daily Dot in 2012. The original version of the GIF format was labeled '87a' and released on June 15th, 1987, soon followed by the 1989 release of its enhanced successor '89a,' which featured support for animation delays, transparent background colors and storage of application-specific metadata. commercial online service Compuserve in 1987 to provide a more robust format for the purpose of uploading and downloading color images, which replaced its earlier run-length encoding (RLE) format in black and white only. GIF format was introduced by the first major U.S.
