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 ...

Lucy Dikeou, a 21-year-old senior at Stanford University, has long used English and the pictorial images known as emoji to text on her iPhone. A few months ago, she started messaging in a third ...

Last week, the family of the man who invented the GIF, Stephen Wilhite, announced that he had passed away at the age of 74 due to complications from COVID-19. While he claimed to have “never got 1 ...

Windows 11 Snipping Tool evolves to include a built-in GIF exporter. PhantomOfEarth shares news about the new feature added to the Snipping Tool. GIF export feature allows for quick creation of GIFs ...

Early in the days of the web, when the internet was turning into a mass medium with possibilities for mixing images and sound, a file format known as the GIF was used to create miniature animations on ...

Buzzfeed has bestowed a new kind of GIF upon the Internet that they claim puts the site "at the very top of the GIF game." Is this new technology really an evolution? They call it the Rubbable GIF ...

In a 2021 Twitter (now ‘X’) post, US journalist Jenny Zhang wrote, “Any time I see someone use a reaction gif I immediately know they are above the age of 33”. The replies to the post featured a mix ...

As you can see, the Coub is a hybrid between a GIF and a video, giving us the loopiness of the graphics interface format, with the sound of a YouTube clip. Also, since the Coub is a video, it offers ...

"The reason everyone thought MySpace was going to die was because these (GIFs) are really ugly," says meme-master general Kenyatta Cheese, speaking at the Story Festival in London. Cheese helps to run ...

“Higgs Boson” was a contender. So were “superstorm,” “Super PAC” and “YOLO” (an acronym that stands for You Only Live Once). But Katherine Martin, head of the U.S. dictionaries program at Oxford ...