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How the Animated Gif Grew from Meme to Medium
In the 25 years since the invention of the Gif file, it’s undergone an incredible metamorphosis developing from little more than a static image to become stunning cinemagraphs. PBS’s Off Book explores...
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What the Hell Is Going on in This Wonderful Animated GIf?
There are plenty of ways to train for the annual Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. This is not one of them. Lets see your best captions and play-by-play calls of this guy getting run down by a...
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Happy 25th Birthday to the Downright Annoying Animated GIF
The humble GIF file was first brought kicking and screaming into the world by Compuserve way back in 1987. It didn’t take long before it became the scourge of internet forums and comment sections...
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Happy Birthday to the GIF: The Internet’s Greatest Treasure Turns 25
Ah, the GIF. If you love the Internet, you can’t help but love that wonderfully animated, comically compressed image file format. Officially called Graphics Interchange Format, the GIF turns 25 today...
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This Optical Trick Is Annoying the Hell Out of Me
So, here are some lines moving like crazy. Stop moving like crazy, you lines! Oh, here are some squares. “Hello lines, let’s all play nice together!” they say. Now everything makes sense. How did this...
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The Apple vs Android Fanboy Wars In One GIF
Here’s a brief note intended for the fanboys who ruin technology for everyone else: Look, your war doesn’t make any sense, ok? This whole fanboys vs fandroids thing, the iPhone vs Galaxy, the iPad vs...
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GIF Is Officially the 2012 Word of the Year
I think I’m going to puke a Tumblr’s worth of emotions because GIF has been named the Oxford American Dictionary’s 2012 word of the year. ZOMG! BetaBeat reports that GIF beat out such worthy...
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These New Spinning GIFs Are as Cool as the Original Ones
Rrrrrrrrroll, the site dedicated to the art of spinning GIF or whatever that is, continues to be one of the best parts of the internet. The author has recently aded a bunch more, so make sure to check...
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The Wicked and Beautiful Turbulence Problems of the Giant Airbus A380
This beautiful shot was made for the first episode of Richard Hammond’s: Engineering Connections, which was dedicated to the Airbus A380. Apparently, wind tunnels can look like the lair of the wicked...
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Where’s Wally GIF: The Best Thing to Happen to Both Wally and GIFs
While all those volumes of Where’s Wally books sit in a dusty cardboard box in your attic, the spirit of Wally lives on in a remarkable bit of GIFage by Redditor Swiftapple. Wally is alive and well....
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Watch These Classic Movie Trailers Re-Purposed for Vine
Trailer-editing professionals TOKYO experimented with Vine recently by re-editing a handful of trailers into six-second, near seizure-inducing cinematic bursts inspired by The Wolverine Vine trailer....
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The Creator of the GIF Says It’s Pronounced JIF. He Is Wrong
Along with whether or not the Internet is 98 per cent porn, figuring out the correct pronunciation of GIF is one of the earliest questions of the Internet. I grew up believing it was hard-G GIF. Most...
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A GIF Is Being Transmitted Into Space For The First Time
Humans haven’t even been off-planet for a century and we’re already leaving trash everywhere. The moon. Mars. Our atmosphere. It’s gross. And honestly it was only a matter of time before a similar...
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Cat Fighter II Needs to Be Real
Forget Street Fighter, we need Cat Fighter II, where our furry feline friends battle it out, throwing whirly kicks, hadoukens, and beating up massive balls of yarn. Whichever next-gen console bags Cat...
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First-Person Pac-Man In Your Browser Is Simply Terrifying
I’ve never really thought of Pac-Man as a horror game. Innocently chomping away, dodging ghosts from a top-down view is pretty tame. But taken from a first-person view, where you simply don’t know...
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There’s a Cool New Type of GIF In Town
GIFs are seemingly the life-blood of the hipster internet at the moment, and we’re unashamed to say that we love them. Now there’s a new kind of motion GIF starting to emerge, the “deparallax” GIF....
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Watch iOS 6 Morph Into iOS 7 in One GIF
Things are going to change once iOS 7 hits your iPhone next week. Doesn’t matter if you’re buying the new iPhone 5C or 5S or not, all those icons you’ve gotten used to will morph into brighter, flatter...
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Watch the Whole History of iOS Homescreens in One GIF
iOS 7 is here to change your phone, homescreen, apps and beyond. It’s a big transition, but the iOS homescreen has come a long way in its six years. Here’s exactly how far, in one glorious GIF. The...
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Become Internet Famous by Starring in Your Own GIF
OK, if you are one of those weirdos who thinks GIFs are irritating and pointless, this website that lets people insert their own faces into a variety of animated scenarios will not please you. Not one...
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Resupplying The Concordia Base Through the Art of Polar Logistics
This is what trainspotting looks like in the largest, coldest desert in the world, where temperatures reach –80°C and the nearest human beings are over nearly 400 miles away. The European Space Agency...
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