Post #1235363
2025-08-04 11:42 UTC
Oh, it was just PIL's 30th birthday! And @pillow's 15th!
🎂🎈🥂 🍾 🎉
The Python Imaging Library (PIL) was created on 1995-06-15:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2005-June/003377.html
And Pillow was forked on 2010-07-31:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-July/006423.html
Happy birthday PIL and Pillow! 🎈
cc @aclark @wiredfool
Replies (2)
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@wiredfool@fosstodon.org 2025-08-04 13:12
@hugovk @pillow @aclark Looks like my first commit merged was 2013-03-13 adding Group4 Tiff support. (https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/98)
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@mav@masto.hackers.town 2025-08-05 12:35
@hugovk @pillow And it has been insanely useful. Happy birthday!