Gimp's Official Website - http://gimp.org/
Gimp Portable - http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable

6: Did any of you know, that Google's original logo from back in 1999 was made in GIMP? (Source)

5: GIMP was originally created for UNIX systems.

4: Gimp's original creators are Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis

3: Gimp's development originally started in 1995, but it's first public release (v0.54) was in January of 1996.

2: Gimp's acronym originally stood for "General Image Manipulation Program" until it became part of the GNU Project in 1997 changing the acronym from "General Image Manipulation Program" into "GNU Image Manipulation Program".

1: Gimp's official mascot is known as Wilber, and was created by Tuomas Kuosmanen in September 1997.

For further information about GIMP visit their official Wikipedia page.

12. Tux, the Linux mascot, was originally created by Larry Ewing using GIMP -- and one of the conditions for using the image is that you should mention that GIMP was used to make it if asked.

11. The "-fu" in Script-fu is a reference to the martial art of Kung Fu.

10. GIMP has translations for 75 different languages.

9. GIMP developers are all volunteers. It is probably the largest software development project which can say that.

8. GIMP comprises over a million lines of source code (it just recently reached that milestone).

7. The "XCF" used in the extension for GIMP's native file format is a tribute to the student-run eXperimental Computing Facility at the University of California's Berkley campus -- where Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball first started writing GIMP.

"A quote from the original creators of Gimp, from Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball in their announcement of Gimp 0.54: The very first Gimp package."
The Gimp arose from the ashes of a hideously crafted cs164 (compilers) class project.
The setting: early morning. We were both weary from lack of sleep and the terrible strain of programming a compiler in LISP.
The limits of our patience had long been exceeded, and yet still the dam held.
And then it happened. Common LISP messily dumped core when it could not allocate the 17 MB it needed to generate a parser for a simple grammar using yacc.
An unbelieving moment passed, there was one shared look of disgust, and then our project was vapor. We had to write something...ANYTHING...useful. Something in C. Something that did not rely on nested lists to represent a bitmap.

Thus, the Gimp was born.

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Great information! It's nice to read about GIMP facts.

Too cool, I love reading the gimp history!

All the more reasons to love Gimp!!

Exactly!