The GifCities project lets you relive the web's early days with a staggering collection of animated images. Remember the dancing baby? Ed is a many-year veteran of the writing and editing world who ...

When Photoshop wizard Kevin Weir spots a somber, 19th-century Russian man in the Library of Congress’ Flickr archive, he sees more than a black-and-white photograph: He imagines a pagan who sprouts an ...

Brain Picking’s Maria Popova has gone and turned a whole mess of drawings from 1942’s The Sexual Study of the Male and Female Human Body in Color Pictures into a pretty fantastic series of animated ...

In celebration of its 20 th anniversary of web preservation, the Internet Archive has launched a new search engine dedicated entirely to the vintage GIFs that helped shape the early Internet. The ...

Wow. Animated GIFs are everywhere now… even on a vintage Apple II Plus! Nathan Griffith put together an awesome bit of code that makes it possible to display animated GIFs on an Apple II+ with only ...

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has opened up a GIF collection in collaboration with Giphy. NARA, which also manages presidential libraries, has long been tasked with ...

Some vintage artwork is about to get a lot more animated. The website GIPHY, along with four international digital libraries, are soliciting your best GIFs for the fourth annual "GIF It Up" contest.

Animated GIFs have become so huge. They're everywhere. But why? On the surface, they're pretty silly—a few frames of video, endlessly looping in time. There are GIFs of Star Trek's Picard facepalming, ...