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The Best Way to Make a GIF on Your Phone or Computer, at Home or on the Go

The noble GIF animated image format is over 30 years old, and despite reports that the youth think they've outlived their coolness, they remain popular with a certain vintage of internet user (like ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Brief History of the GIF, From Early Internet Innovation to Ubiquitous Relic

GIFs have gone from still images to ubiquitous forms of communication across the Internet and social media. What do Barack Obama, the sloth from Zootopia, and a bear waving its paw have in common? All ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Early PC graphics were wild: A look back at the pre-GPU era

IBM was a big player in the early days of personal computing. In 1981, IBM introduced the "PC," followed by the PC-XT in 1983 ...
PC World

How to turn your screencast into a GIF with Recordit

I have a love/hate relationship with animated GIFs. They’re often funny, but they can also be annoying—thank goodness Twitter banned them from profile pictures. There are times, however, when GIFs can ...