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The Best Way to Make a GIF on Your Phone or Computer, at Home or on the Go

The noble GIF animated image format is over 30 years old, and despite reports that the youth think they've outlived their coolness, they remain popular with a certain vintage of internet user (like ...
Wall Street Journal

Inventor of GIF Computer Imagery Has Died at Age 74

Stephen Wilhite was merely trying to solve a technical problem when he invented the GIF, or graphics interchange format, in 1987. As a programmer at the computer-services firm CompuServe, he was ...
The Independent

Stephen Wilhite: Computer programmer who gave the world gifs

Stephen Wilhite, a computer programmer who invented the gif, the humble but versatile file format that became an internet mainstay, helping people share charts, photographs and viral animations – ...
Gizmodo

How Animated GIFs Can Teach Us About Computer Science

Everyone loves animated GIFs, but you might not realize that their grainy, jerky video can teach us a lot about the compromises that computer scientists everywhere have to make. The low frame rates ...
Time

Here’s a Timeline of the Debate About How to Pronounce GIF

The Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, was first developed by computer scientist working at CompuServe back in 1987. And while it has swelled or dipped, the debate over how to pronounce the acronym ...
Business Insider

How to send GIFs on Google Hangouts using your computer

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