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Mostly OT: A friend of mine posted this article from his local newspaper as an example of how slow news is in his town:

http://www.ottumwacourier.com/news/local_news/what-is-a-gif/...

> What is a GIF?

> OTTUMWA — Chances are if you have been on the Internet lately, you have encountered a GIF...In honor of National Teen Tech Week, the Ottumwa Public Library offered a session on GIF making for local teens Saturday afternoon.

OK, not a traditional article topic for a newspaper, but the library described seems to be very much on the ball, teaching teens how to use youtube-dl to download movies:

> He walked each of the teens through the steps required for making GIFs by using movie trailers found on YouTube. He then had the kids copy the web address and use the program youtube-dl to download the video. OPL also provided flash drives for each person so they could access the program at home.



Don't knock gif, it's still used a lot on image boards[1] and most likely Facebook etc, too. Knowing how to make them can be quite useful for today's teens.

[1] E.g. 4chan, which even has its own boards just for animated gifs: /gif/ (NSFW) and /wsg/ (SFW)


These days it's all about the webms, though. Luckily youtube-dl is even more useful for that.


but manually downloading each image/webm in a thread is not fun. i resort to use httrack and it works wonderfully.


But most content on /wsg/ is webm these days


The Ottumwa Public Library staff are heros.




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