Usually containing some level of background artifacting (the little feathered pixels that make a GIF look fuzzy), simple animation, and nonsensical combinations of words and images, old Internet ...

A 2019 fellow of the National Critics Institute, they’re considered an authority on fandom, the internet, and the culture wars. The GIF is officially 30-something, and in the prime of its ...

On June 16th, 1987, the GIF was born. Feel old? Here’s a brief history ... That was 25 years ago this week, and unlike so many other early-Internet inventions, the GIF stuck around.

The gif or graphics interchange format, which is ubiquitous in modern internet conversations, actually turned 30 this year. Arwa Haider tracks its meteoric rise. In an age of 24/7 information ...

Ah, the GIF. If you love the Internet, you can’t help but love that wonderfully animated, comically compressed image file format. Officially called Graphics Interchange Format, the GIF turns 25 ...

We have added it to a list of your favorite stories. Today, we blow out 30 candles for the internet's favorite file format, the GIF. The Graphics Interchange Format lets us express emotions so ...

consider the Internet’s latest contribution to the zeitgeist: artistic GIFs, re-inventing everything from the old-school to the new. David Szakaly is a Hungarian/German graphic designer who’s ...

But nobody else could fill one niche that GIF had cornered: animated images. And so, even as the Internet evolved beyond early HTML, the scrappy old GIF clung on for dear life. “Before ...

In 1987, an engineer named Steve Wilhite at the internet service provider Compuserve ... creating the animated format we know today as the GIF. Now, 30 years later, Wilhite’s GIF (short for ...

Now, you have more capability with it. You have bigger GIFs, a faster Internet.” Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until ...