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JPEG, the most popular electronic image file format celebrates its 30th birthday

lgoehler 7. October 2021

On October 07th 1991, 30 years ago, the first version of libjpeg, the code library responsible for the success of the JPEG format, was released. What follows is a success story that appears to be unparalleled. The format was supported by more and more applications. A large boost for the spread of JPEG was obtained by the emergence of the World Wide Web: it was presentable in almost all browsers. At present billions of JPEG images are created day-to-day by cameras, server routines, technical surveillance devices, and other applications.

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