PATRICK DAVISON: An animated GIF is an image that's been encoded using big Graphics Interchange Format ... between the web 1.0 of the '70s, and '80s, and '90s, and then web 2.0 of like the ...

Any animated logo or graphics seen on TV from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s was likely done with one of these huge machines, and we would jump quite high at the chance to fiddle with one of them.

That Under Construction sign, along with many other cute, small animated icons, served as the average human’s introduction to the GIF ... those time-consuming, graphics-heavy “front doors ...

The Graphics Interchange Format ... an illustration that told visitors to the page that they can expect “ANIMATED GIFs (‘HARD G’).” This was the same year that we got GIPHY, a GIF database ...

Replay: At a time when computers struggled to render a few animated lines, the Scanimate could take graphics and animate them in realtime ... television in the USA during the late 70s and early 80s; ...

For the uninitiated, GIF is an acronym for graphics interchange format -- a type of compressed file that is commonly used on the web for short animations. While GIFs previously appeared as still ...