In 1994, the company that had a patent on GIFs tried to charge a fee for using GIFS. The PNG was invented as an alternative, and the company backed down.
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Toy Story 2 was almost deleted. A year before Toy Story 2 was released, someone entered the command, ‘/bin/rm -r -f *’ on the drive which started deleting the files for the movie. Thankfully, an employee had the entire film backed up on her laptop. If not, the deleted material would have taken a year to recreate.
The Philadelphia Anti-Graffiti Network was founded in 1984 to fight the spread of graffiti. The agency is backed by the city of Philadelphia and provides resources to businesses that need help eradicating vandalism of their property. They also have a Mural Arts Program which allows youth to express themselves by creating murals throughout the city. Similar agencies have popped up in cities around the U.S.
OpenAI released the first version of the Generative Pre-Train Transformer (GPT) artificial intelligence language model in June 2018. OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, was started as a non-profit in 2015 by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, and others, and is backed by Microsoft and led by Sam Altman.