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 ...

What does the history of GIF art look like ... no longer exists and neither does its website. “Save for Web,” a GIF exhibition that opened in August 2009 at Xpace Cultural Centre in Toronto ...

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 ...

As the web got more sophisticated, GIFs looked like an anachronism for a time. But as Aja Romano documented in an excellent 2017 Vox feature, the combination of the patents behind GIF lapsing and ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...