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1994: Tarantino's Pulp Fiction is the coolest movie on the planet. Its iconic poster goes up in every dorm room. In a memorable scene, Bruce Willis is confronted by a masked sex slave called only The Gimp https://youtu.be/S8kPqAV_74M
1995: Peter Mattis announces an image editor called "The GIMP" with the capitalized article as part of the name https://www.gimp.org/about/prehistory.html
The pun is clearly intentional