Stephen Wilhite was merely trying to solve a technical problem when he invented the GIF, or graphics interchange format, in 1987. As a programmer at the computer-services firm CompuServe, he was ...

Recordit features direct uploading of GIF files to the Recordit servers from where you can further distribute the file or download it for your own use. It is available in both free and paid versions.

Greg Borenstein and Scott Wayne Indiana, recent grads of NYU ITP are on a mission to bring GIFs (computer-animated sequences of images) back into the physical world. Like flip books and zoetropes, the ...