People have been talking about the internet crashing for as long as there has been an internet. The use of the 1980s graphic format "GIF" for the common phrase used to describe "Death of the internet: ...

The gif or graphics interchange format, which is ubiquitous in modern internet conversations, actually turned 30 this year. Arwa Haider tracks its meteoric rise. In an age of 24/7 information, where ...

Ah, the GIF. If you love the Internet, you can’t help but love that wonderfully animated, comically compressed image file format. Officially called Graphics Interchange Format, the GIF turns 25 today ...

On June 16th, 1987, the GIF was born. Feel old? Here’s a brief history, plus a few of the best GIFs Co.Design has published. “Choosy programmers choose GIF.” Those are the words of Steve Wilhite, the ...

Tyler Menzel watches television or movies or cable news, and he no longer sees what regular people see. He filters for the magical few seconds — a woman’s uncontrolled smirk, a man’s harrumph, a ...

Wilhite, who famously said the word is pronounced ‘jif’, died last week after developing complications relating to Covid-19. Social media sites are buzzing with GIFs and tributes to Stephen Wilhite, ...

The creator of one of the internet's most popular features has died. Stephen Wilhite created the Graphics Interchange Format, more commonly known as a ' gif '. The tech wizard passed away from Covid ...

While today's internet culture thrives on the likes of dancing baby Yoda or even dancing baby Groot, the late 1990s to early 2000s cherished the oddity that was simply a gif of a dancing baby to Blue ...

The gif or graphics interchange format, which is ubiquitous in modern internet conversations, actually turned 30 this year. Arwa Haider tracks its meteoric rise. The ...

Join our live video chat with the Giphy team on March 22 at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET. Submit your questions on the event page or tweet them with #GiphyChat. Tyler Menzel watches television or movies or ...