"And now for jump number by Bob the pixel-man."

I got the idea of making an animation when I got a pad of Post-its and decided that I could make better use of them than just notes. Since it would be easy to flip through the pad all at once, I started to draw this diving animation on the Post-its. It was harder than I thought, so I went to the (then) state-of-the-art 386SX-25Mhz Acer laptop (with 2 megs RAM and a doublespaced 80Mb hard disk - WOW!) and started learning how to copy-paste in Paintbrush. That was in 1992. There were no such things as animated GIFs or animated icons, so I got a hold of a animation program called Take-One. It was a bit hard for me to use, so I gave up and left it rotting on my hard drive. Until...

Now, years later, I decided that if I didn't do it now, I would never get around to it. So I retrieved the ARJ I had stored it in, opened the pics in PSP and started to put together the GIF you now are waiting to load.

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