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, ...

In an age where your virtual background says more about you than actually being in the call, static backgrounds in Zoom are just plain boring. While Zoom supports video virtual backgrounds, finding an ...

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Graphics Interface Format this month we put together a history of the animated GIF -- in GIF form. In honor of this stalwart of the Internet, we have decided ...

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 ...

Off Book explores the web's most iconic image format: the animated gif. GIFs are one of the oldest image formats used on the web. Throughout their history, they have served a huge variety of purposes, ...

What’s in a format? Does that which we call a GIF by any other name invoke just as many lols? Just yesterday, Twitter started supporting animated GIFs. But there’s a catch! What Twitter ends up ...

It’s easy to send animated GIFs from your iPhone using the Messages app, using the built-in app drawer added in iOS 11. In this tutorial we show how to make use of this feature, and amuse and delight ...

Sometimes a GIF just puts it better than any text comment possibly could. No matter your reason for using one, animated GIFs are a great way to add something fun to your Facebook status, or break up ...

Once upon a time, the animated GIF—a image file that loads in a browser and plays a small, constantly looping animation instead of showing a still image—was the bane of many websites' existences ...