The written conversation has taken on a life-like quality with the help of picture messages, emoticons, and emojis. Expressing yourself has become a lot easier on texts and news thanks to these ...

Charts are a dime a dozen and often don’t tell you much you already didn’t know. But every now and then one comes along that really puts things into perspective. This animated .gif shows the sales of ...

Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg’s animated photos turn the medium of choice for 4chan trolls into something approaching high art. You know how people sometimes say that jazz is the only truly American art ...

Music History in GIFs is a Tumblr that does exactly what you’d expect, providing short, animated snippets of every year in music since 1964. Music History in GIFs is a Tumblr that does exactly what ...

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, ...

The ancient GIF format isn’t going away anytime soon. With the birth of social media and memes, the three-decade-old format for lightweight, looping, sound-free animation has found a new lease on life ...

An stunning dance and experimental theater show pulled pieces of the Internet into the physical world with wild and beautiful results. To learn about the Internet, we tend to turn to ... the Internet.