Bangalore: There are many instances in tech world where companies or technologies have eaten the dust. For instance fate of Palm, the maker of PDAs (Personal Digital Assistance), which laid foundation for Smartphone era. But, tech world has instances not on failures alone, it’s also a spectator of the greatest comebacks of technologies and companies. Read on to know 10 all time greatest comebacks in tech world as compiled by InfoWorld.

#10 GIFs Are Now Getting Your Attention Back

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the web due to its wide support and portability. And then gradually, for some reason, it lost its sheen on web. But GIF made a remarkable resurgence in 2012. Thanks to the popularity of Tumblr, animated GIFs became the preferred tool for taking pot shots at everything from lying politicians to grumpy cats. The comeback was so complete that the 25-year-old GIF was named Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary.

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