If you needed another clue that the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, the short, looping digital animation file, has become totally ubiquitous, the Oxford Dictionary has selected the term as its ...

A single-pixel GIF file set to a transparent status and thus invisible. Also known as a "transparent GIF," "1-by-1 GIF" and "clear GIF," it is is used as a tracking mechanism for Web pages to monitor ...

A GIF image that gradually comes into focus. Instead of displaying a line at a time from top to bottom, lines at various intervals throughout the frame are displayed until all the lines are filled in.

"The GIF, a compressed file format for images that can be used to create simple, looping animations, turned 25 this year, but like so many other relics of the 80s, it has never been trendier," ...

Internet culture gets its proper due in journalism today, as “GIF” has beat out “YOLO” as the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year. “GIF celebrated a lexical milestone in 2012, gaining ...