The web's favorite file format just turned 30. ... "With GIFs you can express a wide range of emotions." About 90 percent of the service's search terms are related to feelings, he says.

GIF is simply not a great image format: colors aren't very sharp, and the files can be enormous. GIF,created in 1987, shows its age. ... JPEGs could prove too large.

Wilhite worked on the GIF, short for graphics interchange format, while working for the online service provider CompuServe in the 1980s. November 5, 1999, was Burn All GIFs Day.

Steve Wilhite, inventor of the graphics interchange format, also known as GIF, died this month at the age of 74. Animated or not, GIFs may now be a common, free feature of the internet, but the ...

We have become a nation of GIFs. Okay, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration. But the image format has long since migrated from Tumblrcentric sideshow into the mass media. Yes, it’s BuzzFeed, but it’s ...

A 50-MB MP4 is compacted into a 3.4-MB GIFV as Imgur unveils Project GIFV and heralds the evolution of the GIF. Project GIFV is an internal undertaking at Imgur, and one the image-hosting site ...

When the menu opens, select GIF as the file format and reduce the physical dimensions (width and height) of the image. If you ...