Proud of my work on PNG. 24 years is a good run! But now that Apple has finally adopted WebP, there is a superior replacement for both JPEG and PNG. With Microsoft ditching IE11 support on their own sites on August 17th, it's time to start moving on. ct'd

The nineties were a special time to be a contributor to the Internet. The web was blowing up, and anything you did blew up right along with it. People did stuff just because it needed doing. ct'd

Shout-outs to Mark Adler, Thomas Boutell, Christian Brunschen, Adam M. Costello, Lee Daniel Crocker, Andreas Dilger, Oliver Fromme, Jean-loup Gailly, Chris Herborth, Aleks Jakulin, Neal Kettler, Tom Lane, Alexander Lehmann ct'd

Chris Lilley, Dave Martindale, Owen Mortensen, Keith S. Pickens, Robert P. Poole, Glenn Randers-Pehrson, Greg Roelofs, Willem van Schaik, Guy Schalnat, Paul Schmidt, Tim Wegner, Jeremy Wohl and any PNG Working Group contributors I may have missed. ct'd

Thank you for leaning into the "here are some half-baked thoughts, who can help me fill the gaps, let's just do this" spirit of my original USENET post. There's a good history of the process here: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/book/chapter07.html#FOOTNOTE-50