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Originally posted by FightThisPatent
GIF89 could count as prior art, once we find GIF89 files that were video-like, as in using digitized still images in a loop.
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What about Amiga MOD and other tracker files? They contained digitized sound samples, and were sent over the internet and BBS's, probably as early as 1986 or 1987.
While they were commonly used to "sequence" music, they also sometimes contained a single audio stream, and were used cause it was a common format that was easy to play with commonly available code.
Authors often included the release date as the name of a sample contained within a mod file.