From the oogachaka baby to Nyan Cat, the graphics interchange format, better known as the GIF, has come a long way since the days of floppy discs. The modern-day GIF was introduced to the world 25 ...

Reply threads on Facebook are about to get a lot more animated. To mark the 30th anniversary of the GIF format, all users will get the new GIF comment button that Facebook began testing three months ...

31,136 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?31,136 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?

Everybody’s favorite digital image file type (sorry, PNGs) turns 30 this year, and to mark the occasion 30 Graphics Interchange Format (or GIF) artists will show their loopy, glitchy, colorful, ...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the creation of the GIF, and what better way to celebrate than to use them in Facebook comments now that you finally can? That's right. To celebrate the ...

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the GIF, Facebook will now let you add GIFs in comments. Moreover, it is introducing some new and exclusive GIFs that have some of the internet's most popular ...

British actor and rising star Lucien Laviscount is celebrating the 35 th anniversary of the GIF in a new campaign documenting human emotion in the digital era. In a film released today, Lucien ...

In 1987, an engineer named Steve Wilhite at the internet service provider Compuserve invented a compression algorithm to make downloading and sending images through the web easier—effectively creating ...

Created by Compuserve in 1987 as a way to share compressed motion images, the graphics interchange format turns 26 on Saturday. It’s coming off a banner year that found the medium being at once ...

It’s difficult to imagine a world of communication without the wonder of GIFs, but that’s how people had to live just 30 years ago. Today, 15 June, is the 30th birthday of the GIF and we thought it an ...