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 ...

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.

Already more than a decade old and with roots reaching to June 15th, 1987—half a decade before the World Wide Web itself—the GIF was showing its age. It offered support for a paltry 256 colors.

Facebook Inc is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app, Facebook said in a ...

Welcome to part four 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: 1997–2008 ...