Here’s a little-known Internet secret: GIF files -- the preferred medium for sharing pithy animation loops across the web -- were never invented with this purpose in mind. Instead, the file ...

From its humble beginnings on black and white computers to its now ubiquitous usage in memes, we have the lowdown on one of the most important file formats in history. A GIF, or Graphical ...

Not in terms of it’s overall usefulness, but just for the fact that the animated files work in a similar way. The nature of these animated containers is what makes it work. A GIF doesn’t tell ...

When sharing via iMessage or Twitter, where .gif files are supported, the Giphy compression software maintains the .gif file structure. However, when sharing to a platform like Instagram (that ...

some thought it was settled in favor of a hard "G" — but the creator of the .gif image format himself has made a final pronouncement: "It's a soft 'G,' pronounced 'jif.' End of story." ...

Wilhite and a Graphics File Formats FAQ page from 1997 argue that the proper way to pronounce the format is as “jif,” as in “jiffy,” rather than “gif” with a hard g. “Choosy ...

This free open-source alternative to GIF offers 16 million colors. This is the best file format for true-color images that need perfect tone balance. The animated file format of PNG is available ...

The man who helped launch a million memes has died. Steve Wilhite, who is credited with inventing the GIF file format, which makes possible the proliferation of funny Simpsons and SpongeBob memes ...

Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, has died ... image was an airplane and insisting that the file had only one pronunciation – a soft “G ...