The Internet Archive made it easier to search for '90s-era GIFs. GifCities contains millions of animations from the decade of ...

The Internet Archive's vintage GIF search engine, GifCities, now supports keyword searches and searches by dimensions.

Usually containing some level of background artifacting (the little feathered pixels that make a GIF look fuzzy), simple animation, and nonsensical combinations of words and images, old Internet ...

The modern era: reaction GIFs explode across the internet — and GIFs become an art form unto themselves And then came the onset of social media, and lo, GIFs were everywhere. Reddit, Twitter ...

That's right, the folks at the Internet Archive, that saver of classic websites, have now created GifCities: The GeoCities Animated Gif Search Engine. The site features millions of animated GIFs ...

Ah, the GIF. If you love the Internet, you can’t help but love that wonderfully animated, comically compressed image file format. Officially called Graphics Interchange Format, the GIF turns 25 ...

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The gif or graphics interchange format, which is ubiquitous in modern internet conversations, actually turned 30 this year. Arwa Haider tracks its meteoric rise. In an age of 24/7 information, ...

David Szakaly is a Hungarian/German graphic designer who’s been creating abstract, Escher-like GIFs since 2008. His cyclical, video-game-like work was clearly designed with the Internet world in ...

he quickly realized that there were few quality GIFs on the internet, and most of them were low resolution. “It’s like if Google had indexed the internet and found out there were only a few ...

Today, we blow out 30 candles for the internet's favorite file format, the GIF. The Graphics Interchange Format lets us express emotions so innate we just can't put them into words online.