Exactly. As the article says: > If GIFs are like framed pictures you can take down and move to your new house, these GIF-like videos are murals painted right o

Exactly. As the article says: > If GIFs are like framed pictures you can take down and move to your new house, these GIF-like videos are murals painted right onto the wall. In an ideal world, I would be able to bookmark a URL, refer to it 10 years later, and still get the exact same information. Unfortunately, this is not true for any of the image/video hosting services that we use on a daily basis, from Imgur to YouTube. So if I really want to preserve a piece of information for later retrieval, I need to keep a copy on my own computer. I can right-click a GIF and save it as a file, and I'm pretty sure it will stay where I put it for the next 20 years (or more). I don't have the same kind of assurance with most other video formats. Yeah, the GIF is 20 times bigger, but who cares? Disk space is cheap. Bandwidth is cheap. Universal compatibility is hard.