The GifCities project lets you relive the web's early days with a staggering collection of animated images. Remember the dancing baby? Ed is a many-year veteran of the writing and editing world who ...

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, ...

The humble gif is turning 30. The multi-purpose bitmap image format has established itself as part of internet culture, so much so that people have almost stopped arguing over how it is pronounced ...

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A while back, we dropped A History of the 50 Greatest Animated GIFs of All Time—a feature that explored and explained the history of one of the Internet's most endlessly entertaining features. But ...

An animated tour of the history of MMO expression through /dance. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's a little funny how much we ...

James Van Der Beek sobbing. The guy who blinks in disbelief. That disturbing dancing baby. For these and millions more GIFs, we have Stephen Wilhite to thank. GIFs, those looping animated images, are ...

So, I've been watching a lot more of the fourth hour of the Today Show lately. Whatever. Only God can judge me. Also, everyone should be doing this. The fourth hour of the Today Show with Hoda Kotb ...

Opinions on animated GIFs range from pure hatred to unabashed overuse. “Hide your eyes,” wrote one reporter on CNET. Meanwhile, Tumblr, which is the undisputed platform for animated GIF enthusiasts, ...

"GIF" was selected as 2012 Word of the Year by Oxford Dictionaries, besting other notable contenders including Eurogeddon (a word to describe the possible financial collapse of the Eurozone) and ...