Your Facebook News Feed will soon become much more animated. Facebook has decided to begin supporting animated GIF images. An animated GIF is a graphic image that moves in a loop -- which is created ...

NASA released a series of incredible GIFs today showing how some of 2017's natural disasters looked from space. In one of the images, smoke from this The Slums Of Liberia Spring To Life In These ...

A moving picture in GIF format, which comprises a series of frames. When displayed, they provide an animated sequence that cycles over and over without stopping. Although popular on the Web, animated ...

Tumblr is a popular blog site that allows users to post text, videos, audio files and pictures. Like all computer files, photo files come in a few different types. One type of photo file is the GIF, ...

Q: Animated GIFs once ruled the Internet, appearing on every teenager's Geocities homepage or MySpace profile. Now I can't seem to find any that I like. Can I make my own instead? A: Created way back ...

There are some striking similarities between the career of Robert Downey Jr. and the GIF. After the invention of the GIF file format in the late ‘80s, pixilated animated GIFs—those "under construction ...

While animated GIFs have trampled over still images, Flash animations, and even in some cases video clips as a way to inject multimedia pizazz into text-based content, animated illustrations remain a ...

Welcome to part four of this brief journey through the rich history of one of the newest and most popular art forms, the animated GIF. The previous installments are “The Early Years: 1997–2008”, ...

As The Atlantic Wire noted last week, there's a fun, popular (almost too popular) meme that sprung up around a Tumblr called #WhatShouldWeCallMe and its use of animated GIFs. With Barack Obama set to ...