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 ...
The noble GIF animated image format is over 30 years old, and despite reports that the youth think they've outlived their ...
More than two decades ago, in 1987, Compuserv developed the Graphics Interface Format, a file that allows users with incompatible PCs to exchange pictures. They dubbed it the GIF, pronounced with a ...
If you cut your chops on the web during the era of hand-coded HTML websites, then you definitely know that the most important part of a good site are the GIFs. How else would you notify your readers ...
Welcome to part three 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” and ...