File Formats & Standards · Recorded milestone
PNG images
Recorded year1996
Thomas Boutell and volunteers create PNG, a patent-free lossless image format, after a patent row over GIF; the W3C backs it in 1996.
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- GIF imagesRecorded · 1987enables
- ZIP archivesRecorded · 1989enables
- World Wide WebRecorded · 1991enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.