As web design evolved during the early 2000s ... (At that point in the GIF’s history, popular conception wasn’t exactly wrong.) The emergence of Flash animation, JavaScript, and other more ...

But when developers took to the World Wide Web in 1991, they mostly used still ... is shared,” Eppink wrote in an article on the history of GIFs for the Journal of Visual Culture.

Wilhite is not only famous for inventing the GIF, but he’s also become the foremost authority on how the acronym is pronounced. According to handful of blogs and websites, Wilhite and a Graphics ...

If I had to explain the Internet to an E.T., I’d call up a bunch of animated GIFs. They’re the purest distillation of the web, its unofficial universal language. If I had to explain the ...

PBS's Off Book has a new short doc available online called Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium which, as you may have guessed, traces the history and ... modern staple of web 2.0 culture.

While pretty much anything could be posted on the blog, members of the website tended to focus ... Read part one of Paddy Johnson’s brief history of animated GIF art here, and stay tuned for ...

The Internet Archive keeps track of this. According to its HTTP Archive, GIFs now comprise 29% of all images on the web's million most popular sites, down from 41% two years ago. At this rate ...

Welcome to part three of this brief journey through the rich history of one of the newest and most popular art forms, the animated GIF. The previous installments are “The Early Years: ...