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== History ==

RIFF was introduced in 1991 by [[Microsoft]] and [[International Business Machines|IBM]], and was presented by Microsoft as the default format for [[Windows 3.1x|Windows 3.1]] multimedia files. It is based on [[Electronic Arts]]' [[Interchange File Format]], introduced in 1985 on the [[Commodore Amiga]], the only difference being that multi-[[byte]] integers are in [[endianness|little-endian]] format, native to the [[80x86]] processor series used in IBM PCs, rather than the [[endianness|big-endian]] format native to the [[68k]] processor series used in [[Amiga]] and [[Apple Macintosh]] computers, where IFF files were heavily used. A RIFX format, usingwhich is big-endian format, was also introduced.

In 2010 Google introduced the [[WebP]] picture format, which uses RIFF as a container.<ref>{{Cite web