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 ...

We have become a nation of GIFs. Okay, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration. But the image format has long since migrated from Tumblrcentric sideshow into the mass media. Yes, it’s BuzzFeed, but it’s ...

GIFs are the lifeblood of the internet, the reason most of us get up in the morning. But they haven’t really gotten better in the past 25 years—until now. Imgur claims to have “reimagined the GIF” by ...

Imgur's new GIFV format means animated images load faster, look better and play when shared on social networks. Will the 1987-era GIF format finally fade from use? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Off Book explores the web's most iconic image format: the animated gif. GIFs are one of the oldest image formats used on the web. Throughout their history, they have served a huge variety of purposes, ...

The ancient GIF format isn’t going away anytime soon. With the birth of social media and memes, the three-decade-old format for lightweight, looping, sound-free animation has found a new lease on life ...

An installation in the New York Museum of the Moving Image presents contemporary art GIFs in their original format, on the computers used to build them. Reading time 4 minutes There’s something about ...

From the oogachaka baby to Nyan Cat, the graphics interchange format, better known as the GIF, has come a long way since the days of floppy discs. The modern-day GIF was introduced to the world 25 ...

Movie To GIF is a simple freeware for Windows that can help you convert video files to animated GIF format. This software allows you to convert video and movie files and add numerous special effects ...