The image format simultaneously evolved with the internet and continues to live on in our group texts, Slack messages, and Twitter threads. Donna has a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Psychology ...

Yesterday the GIF—a favorite birthday missive for many—had a birthday itself. Everyone’s favorite looping file format is now 30 years old—and in those three decades, it has managed to transcend its ...

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Graphics Interchange Format, popularly known as GIF is a digital file format. A GIF means multiple images encoded in a single file and displayed in a succession to create an animation. It can also be ...

GIFs have been around since way back in 1987, but show no signs of disappearing. They continue to be a popular way of sharing short videos in just about any app, on just about any platform. Whether ...

Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

Since their invention more than 30 years ago (four years before the World Wide Web even), GIFs have come to be one of the most popular and beloved forms of expression on the internet. Indeed, the ...

People love GIFs. A lot. Really a lot. So much. They’ve been around since 1987, leaving plenty of time for a prolonged and heated pronunciation debate that wouldn’t stop until the creator of the .gif ...

Animated GIFs have become so huge. They're everywhere. But why? On the surface, they're pretty silly—a few frames of video, endlessly looping in time. There are GIFs of Star Trek's Picard facepalming, ...

There's a new kid on the GIF-creation scene, and it's a good kid. This week, Imgur launched a new "Video to GIF" feature that lets you enter a URL, adjust the parameters of a clip, and get a ...

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This Michael Scott moment from The Office is the most popular GIF from the show on GIPHY. Photo: NBC According to the GIF-hosting site Giphy, this GIF of the character Patrick from SpongeBob ...