The Sun

What is a GIF, who invented the image format, how is it pronounced and what’s an animated meme?

From its humble beginnings on black and white computers to its now ubiquitous usage in memes and how Facebook is celebrating the GIF's birthday THE GIF turned 30 today, so, let’s wish the Graphical ...
CNET

The tired GIF gets a modern-day makeover

Imgur's new GIFV format means animated images load faster, look better and play when shared on social networks. Will the 1987-era GIF format finally fade from use? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...
The Daily Dot

The animated history of the GIF, the internet’s favorite format

The GIF, or graphics interchange format, was introduced to the world by Compuserve in 1987. The compressed format was the ideal for performing image transfers across the slow modem connections of the ...
BBC

Gif's inventor says ignore dictionaries and say 'Jif'

Steve Wilhite's achievement was celebrated at the Webby Awards The creator of the Gif graphics format has said that his invention should be pronounced so it starts with a "j" rather than with a hard ...