Animated GIFs. Those endlessly looping online images are always good for a laugh. But that’s not all they’re good for. They can also turn you into a bona fide web developer. Take a look at ...

Off Book explores the web's most iconic image format: the animated gif. GIFs are one of the oldest image formats used on the web. Throughout their history, they have served a huge variety of ...

How to Create a GIF Background for a Web Page. Animated Web page backgrounds can be eye-catching, and you can create them using GIF files.

GifCities helps you find those GIFs from the old World Wide Web. GifCities is a fun project from the Internet Archive to celebrate their 20th anniversary.

Animated GIF by Mr. GIF There are some striking similarities between the career of Robert Downey Jr. and the GIF. After the invention of the GIF file format in the late ‘80s, pixilated animated ...

Learn how to turn off GIFs & disable animated images in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera & Vivaldi browsers, and stop them from auto-playing.

The GIF is 30 years old. It didn’t just shape the internet — it grew up with the internet. Here’s how the internet’s favorite image format evolved into a cultural staple.

Yet the GIF as a filetype, the way we store the library of ones and zeros that computers translate into animation, is quietly embattled.

Riffsy’s clips are actually fast-loading streaming videos on the web and mobile (although they do get transcoded to animated GIFs for e-mail). The immediate appeal of Riffsy isn’t hard to explain.

What does it take to be a really good web developer? If you’re working at your first programming job, you probably found out quickly that it’s not easy. It’s one thing to watch coding ...