It's blatant that what Cyberninja did was just write something noobish to claim a first without saying "FIRRRSTTT"
Cos he's still a noob who cares about firsts
@Glides I can't speak for the stuff on page 3, since I didn't make those, but for the others I used Photoshop and AfterEffects. There are a few free online gif-making tools too, that will let you extract frames and compile new gifs.