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 ...

GIFs have gone from still images to ubiquitous forms of communication across the Internet and social media. What do Barack Obama, the sloth from Zootopia, and a bear waving its paw have in common?

The GIF, or graphics interchange format ... Olia Lialina was quick to seize the opportunity. A Russian Internet artist pioneer, Lialina started experimenting with the format in 1997, because ...

Along with whether or not Al Gore invented the Internet, figuring out the correct pronunciation of GIF is one of the earliest questions of the Internet. I grew up believing it was hard-G GIF.

Back when the internet was new, gifs were used extensively because they didn't require much bandwidth. Check out the original Space Jam website from 1996, pictured above - it still works!

The latest corporate marketing mistake to be released into the wild and transmogrified into art is this Coca-Cola GIF-maker. “GIF the feeling,” it beckons to you. Twitter savant and internet ...

we’ll be building out our artist GIF community, doing major media deals, and creating a content distribution network to distribute short looped animations all over the Internet,” Mr. Chung said.

In celebration of its 20 th anniversary of web preservation, the Internet Archive has launched a new search engine dedicated entirely to the vintage GIFs that helped shape the early Internet.