GIFs are designed to loop short clips–generally a couple seconds long–over and over until you close your browser window. But As Long As Possible is a different kind of GIF; one rendered on a geologic ...

Ade Olonoh, the founder of the anonymous Q&A site Formspring, is setting his sights on animated GIFs. Loop is an iOS app for sending text updates to all of your friends at once — à la Twitter — but ...

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, ...

An stunning dance and experimental theater show pulled pieces of the Internet into the physical world with wild and beautiful results. To learn about the Internet, we tend to turn to ... the Internet.

A service that creates an infinite loop GIF animation of 320 × 240 at 10 frames per second is "Face to gif"is. Normally you will need special software and some work to create GIF animation, but face ...

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 ...

Your Facebook News Feed will soon become much more animated. Facebook has decided to begin supporting animated GIF images. An animated GIF is a graphic image that moves in a loop -- which is created ...

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 ...

Animated GIFs can be funny and a lot of fun. Even in a business presentation, a well-placed GIF can help refocus your audience's attention to emphasize an important point. Whether you already have a ...

Thursday marks the 30th anniversary of the GIF, or graphics interchange format, a file that supports static and animated images. The GIF was developed by software writer Steve Wilhite while employed ...