According to Steve Wilhite, who invented the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) in 1987 for CompuServe, it’s “jif,” like the peanut butter (and like “gym” and “gem” and “Geoff”), not a hard “g” (like ...

You're messaging your friend, and they just told you the juiciest gossip you've ever heard. It's so utterly surprising that words simply won't cut it. So what do you do instead? You send a GIF of ...

You can easily transform photos and videos into GIF files to share with family, friends or the world at large. By J. D. Biersdorfer Online “visual” reactions have come a long way since the first ...

Online “visual” reactions have come a long way since the first sideways smiley-face emoticon appeared four decades ago. Animated GIFs — those files showing a few seconds of choppy motion, like the one ...