The GIF has had a tumultuous history. The image format, which stands for Graphics Interchange Format, always struggled against the JPEG — it was unable to handle colors as well as its ...

Animated GIFs — those files showing a few seconds of choppy motion, ... J.D. Biersdorfer has been answering technology questions — in print, on the web, in audio and in video — since 1998.

Animated GIFs are hotter than ever, but legal precedent has not caught up with the popularity of the format. Before you start sharing GIFs in your own content, make sure you're in compliance with ...

One of the viral channels responsible for the runaway success of the Avengers movie has been the return of an old-school web 1.o gimmick: the animated gif. There is a proliferation of sites that ...

After answering these questions, you will know what resources you will need to make the animated GIF. Gather the Resources After planning the content, you have now decided on the purpose of the ...

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 ...

And when Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released in 1995, it supported the .GIF format, including animated GIFs. Thus, if you wanted an easy way to decorate your website, ... At the same time, ...

More than two decades ago, in 1987, Compuserv developed the Graphics Interface Format, a file that allows users with incompatible PCs to exchange pictures. They dubbed it the GIF, pronounced with ...

Every animated GIF on Wikipedia, one random image at a time. by Adi Robertson. Via Hacker News | Source Wikigifs. Dec 12, 2012, 5:58 PM UTC. Wikigif. Adi ...