Steve Wilhite invented the GIF in 1987 to drip-feed the first color photos onto grindingly slow computers. Those computers and the slow internet connections they were tethered to have gone the way of ...

Alina Bradford has been writing how-tos, tech articles and more for almost two decades. She currently writes for CNET's Smart Home Section, MTVNews' tech section and for Live Science's reference ...

When Jason Walter first created the r/HighQualityGifs subreddit in September 2013, he did so simply as a way to aggregate the GIFs he made in his spare time. GIFs hadn't yet become the juggernaut they ...

It seems I can’t escape “Dear Evan Hansen.” It’s a new musical. And yes, that’s my name, but no, I’ve got nothing to do with it. Still, every few days, friends and acquaintances have been pinging me ...

The year 2012 was a momentous one for the animated GIF. The popularity of Dump.fm was just beginning to fade, but the platform, which facilitates real-time chat with images, had sparked GIF-making ...

First off, what is a GIF, we hear some of you ask? Well, it stands for Graphics Interchange Format and is traditionally used to mean an animated image of some kind (sort of like a Boomerang but it ...

Editor’s Note: This story originally published in March 2018. We’re republishing the piece following news that Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead creators of the GIF, died earlier this month after ...

Twitter now officially supports GIFs … kind of. It lets people upload GIFs and then it converts them into video files called MP4s to save space. The result: the equivalent of GIFs will appear in ...