1. What to know about GIFs
Aaron Shifflett

2. 1997
This is when animated GIFS begin

3. History GIF was first established in 1987
Steve Wilhite and a team of programmers from CompuServe developed the file format.
Animation was not in the picture for these developers
What it's intended use was to take files and make them smaller without taking away any data (Limer, “The GIF is dead”)

4. 2003
Myspace increased the popularity of Gifs

5. Present day Social media is most likely brought GIFs back (tumblr)
Bringing back retro things
According to the article: “The Surging Popularity of Gifs in Digital Culture”, Google and other big company are adding features to search for GIFs

7. Websites to make GIFs
Loogix
Giphy
BloGIF
MakeaGif

8. My GIFs Creation

9. Work Cited
Johnson, Paddy. “A Brief History of Animated GIF Art, Part One.” Artnet News, Artnet News, 23 Apr. 2015, news.artnet.com/art-world/a-brief-history-of-animated-gif-art-part-one
Limer, Eric. “THE GIF IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE GIF.” Popular Mechanics, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2018,