More than 150 years before Buzzfeed uploaded its first cat GIF, people were already captivated by looping animations. In those days, of course, there was no photoshop or screen grabbing, no Tumblrs ...

Editor’s Note: This story originally published in March 2018. We’re republishing the piece following news that Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead creators of the GIF, died earlier this month after ...

Not long after the process of Daguerreotype photography was unveiled in 1839, early photographers turned their eyes upward, and a number of photographers, including Daguerre himself, tried to capture ...

Chrome/Firefox: Ever hate how when you first open a GIF, it loads super slowly with choppy animation? It kind of ruins the GIF experience. But GIF Delayer is an easy fix that stops the animation from ...

Game maker (and co-founder of game studio MiniBoss) Pedro Medeiros knows pixel art, and he wants to teach you. Every Tuesday since September, he’s posted an animated GIF demonstrating an aspect of ...

Want to use Google for your GIF searches, but see the results as moving GIFs instead of still pictures? Now you can fix that with a Chrome extension. Nicole Cozma has an affinity for all things tech, ...