On June 15, 1987 the popular online service Compuserve introduced a new image format for its file download areas. Caled Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), it was a big step up from its old ...

Animated GIFs and the Internet go together like peanut butter and jelly. Whether your Internet browsing habits take you to Reddit, Tumblr, or elsewhere, you likely run into multiple GIFs per day, each ...

It’s not exactly a death knell, but the tremendously popular image-sharing website Imgur this week dealt a severe blow to the archaic but trendy animated GIF format standard. The decades-old GIF ...

There is a big debate on the proper pronunciation. When you want to ask someone if they liked the GIF that you sent, how do you say it out loud? Most of us have heard it spoken a couple of different ...

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 ...

The GIF format remains a popular file format for animating images. However, the technology hasn’t changed since 1987, and its limitations are starting to show. Which is why the image hosting website, ...

GIFs are the lifeblood of the internet, the reason most of us get up in the morning. But they haven’t really gotten better in the past 25 years—until now. Imgur claims to have “reimagined the GIF” by ...

Crop extra space around the image to reduce its dimensions. When you prepare the GIF, reduce its output dimensions. Reduce the number of colors in the image. For animated GIFs, reduce the number of ...

If you were among the group of people who said a GIF, the popular animated images file, is pronounced like the word “Jif,” then give yourself a pat on the back -- you were right. The creator of the ...