People have been talking about the internet crashing for as long as there has been an internet. The use of the 1980s graphic format "GIF" for the common phrase used to describe "Death of the internet: ...

While today's internet culture thrives on the likes of dancing baby Yoda or even dancing baby Groot, the late 1990s to early 2000s cherished the oddity that was simply a gif of a dancing baby to Blue ...

The GIF, or graphics interchange format, was introduced to the world by Compuserve in 1987. The compressed format was the ideal for performing image transfers across the slow modem connections of the ...

One weekend afternoon in September, Mike Konczal sat down at his computer to research a blog post. Another miserable jobs report had restarted the debate about what, if anything, the Federal Reserve ...

How often do you send a GIF to a friend or a colleague to express your feelings about something? Well, GIFs can indeed come in handy to convey a specific emotion and make your dialogue funnier, thanks ...

Our long national nightmare of not being able to embed GIFs on Facebook is now over. Giphy, the Betaworks-owned GIF search engine, announced a workaround today that makes its GIFs embeddable on the ...

Animated GIFs have been around for a long time, but with the advent and subsequent domination of all things social media, the animated pictures have become one of the core tenants of the Internet. If ...

The Internet, it seems, has found its version of vinyl chic. Just as the LP has enjoyed a second spin among retro-minded music fans, animated GIFs — the choppy, crude snippets of video loops that ...

Wilhite, who famously said the word is pronounced ‘jif’, died last week after developing complications relating to Covid-19. Social media sites are buzzing with GIFs and tributes to Stephen Wilhite, ...

The creator of one of the internet's most popular features has died. Stephen Wilhite created the Graphics Interchange Format, more commonly known as a ' gif '. The tech wizard passed away from Covid ...