A look back at the history of the animated GIF -- and some of the best and most hilarious examples the internet has to offer.

The ancient GIF format isn’t going away anytime soon. With the birth of social media and memes, the three-decade-old format for lightweight, looping, sound-free animation has found a new lease ...

Create animated GIFs to share on sites like Reddit and Imgur with UnFREEz. is a quick and easy solution. It takes only a few seconds with this simple, portable freeware.

Though it’s almost 30 years old, the humble gif has had something of a resurgence of late, its simplicity slotting in perfectly as part of today’s fast, frivolous vernacular. The file format ...

09-24-2015 TECH Yes, This GIF Takes 1,000 Years To Loop Counting from 1 to 48,140,288, this GIF needs a home for the next millenia.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a GIF worth? Animated GIFs are moving images that play in a short loop, and are a great way to react to an incoming message or on social media ...

Despite the uncertainty over the GIF’s legal future, it’s a cultural icon with staying power. GIFs have even appeared twice at the Museum of the Moving Image.

Imgur claims to have “ reimagined the GIF ” by recreating the traditional animated, looping images we love using the best web video format, MP4. Hold onto your jorts!

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Inspired by looping videos like GIFs and Vines that have kept millions of Web and mobile users entertained for countless hours, a startup called Coub is adding an extra layer of creativity to the mix.