The Story Gif

And they were making art gifs and fancy looking fashion “cinemagraph” gifs… —- (This is The Story of GIF. If you want to start at the begi [...]

GIF wanders the subcultural forest, where the woodland creatures are curious about this file format from the days of Web 1.0. —- (This is The Sto [...]

One day Queen Compuserve wished for a image format capable of (but not intended to) play short animations but still be supported by any browser withou [...]

So one day such a format was born. They name her GIF89a and issue her spec. But, sadly, soon after Compuserve dies. —- (This is The Story of GI [...]

[...] the problem at all — as a file format she’s doesn’t have to be the most popular, she just has to do what she does well and if the [...]

[...] GIF wanders the subcultural forest, where the woodland creatures are curious about this file format from the days of Web 1.0. —- (This is The Story of GIF. If you want to start at the beginning,  [...]

[...] The internet forums get to work doing what they do, which is finding or making interesting content and surfacing [...]

[...] The new queen possesses a magic mirror called Tech Blogs which she asks every morning “Magic blog coverage, who is the most useful format of all?” And [...]

[...] Queen Flash gets fearful and tells everyone that MySpace sucks and that Facebook is the next big thing. She then banishes GIF to the forest of subcultures [...]

The new queen possesses a magic mirror called Tech Blogs which she asks every morning “Magic blog coverage, who is the most useful format of all?� [...]

[...] GIF wanders the subcultural forest, where the woodland creatures are curious about this file format from [...]

[...] They take GIF in and she starts making short animations out of viral video clips and and NSFW webcam footage. And the creatures of the forest loved it. These are clips that [...]

This is where we diverge from the traditional text. This isn’t Grimm. This isn’t Disney. This is the Internet. —- (This is The Story of GI [...]