The GIF is old technology, it's digital and it's already making a comeback. Allan Hoffman may be reached via his website, allanhoffman.com.

In a similar vein, Gifpop will allow users to upload their own GIFs (or a Vine or Instagram video) through a Web interface and choose 10 frames to be printed through an old technology known as ...

The 9 Best Technology GIFs of 2016 It’s time to recognize the trusty sidekicks to this year’s important stories, without which, technology news would be a whole lot less mesmerizing.

Buzzfeed has bestowed a new kind of GIF upon the Internet that they claim puts the site "at the very top of the GIF game." Is this new technology really an evolution? They call it the Rubbable GIF ...

While the brief animations are not new — GIFs were created in 1987 by Steve Wilhite, a programmer at CompuServe, and have been omnipresent on desktops — major improvements in mobile technology ...

More than two decades ago, Compuserv developed the Graphics Interface Format. Ever since, GIF creators and watchers alike have debated the term's pronunciation.

Instagram has greatly expanded its platform’s function over the past few years. The latest move? GIFs in direct messages.

Animated gifs are a mainstay of Internet culture, first rising to prominence back in the 1990s, and still populating forums, blogs, and Tumblrs. Gifs play like short, silent video clips, but the ...

Facebook is betting on the potency of GIFs by acquiring Giphy, whose technology will be integrated into Instagram, which Facebook acquired in 2012. The price was reported by multiple media outlets ...

Another aspect that made GIFs essential is that they didn’t take up a lot of memory. The technology employed the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm, which found repeating patterns in the images and ...