Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead inventors of the GIF, died last week from COVID at the age of 74, according to his wife, Kathaleen, who spoke to The Verge. He was surrounded by family when he passed.

TETSUO!!!!!!!!!!!

An episode of The Simpsons called “The Computer Wore Menace Shoes” sums up the turn-of-the-century internet quite well. Homer builds a website, dubbed “Mr. X's Web Page” and populates it with animated GIFs of Jesus dancing, screaming mouths, and flying toasters.

The 3D Additivist Cookbook is published December 2nd

apologise to the rice

Bowling

The future of robotics = arrogant skeletons

Such a purple day

Virus trading cards

Deadly but beautiful - The trading cards you probably don’t want to collect.

Cooper

If an annual award for the ‘hottest digital image format online’ existed, this year’s winner would be the Graphics Interchange Format or gif: an eight-bit, 256-colour bitmap picture file that can composite a series of stills into an infinitely loopable, silent moving image.

Skexit

ARPANET (1969-1989) in One GIF

This sims mod lets you wear a bathtub as a hat which will still function as a bathtub, and the people in that bathtub can also wear it as a hat which will still function as a bathtub, and the people in that bathtub can also wear it as a hat which will still function as a bathtub, and the people in that bathtub can also wear it as a hat which will still function as a bathtub, and the people in that bathtub can also wear it as a hat which will still function as a bathtub, and the people in that bathtub can also wear it as a hat which will still function as a bathtub……. >>>>>>>>> ‪#‎BATHCEPTION‬

1. The face at the end of this relief bringing squeeze says it all. 2. There’s just something soothing about watching these things get drained. imgur.com 3. Doesn’t this make you feel relaxed? 4. Just imagine how gratifying this must feel… youtube.com 5. …getting rid of all the bad stuff.

Orbital

If you haven’t watched YouTube in a while—if you’ve joined the Amish, or you’re Edward Snowden—a lot has changed. Early on, the platform was a salmagundi of out-of-focus lifecasts.

ello? is it me you’re looking for?

World’s Most Expensive GIF(by Michael Green)

Legit Re-presentation by Nick Briz / @nbriz - based on his series of Martin Arnold inspired GIFs Part of the #GIFbites Project for Bitrates Exhibition  L↺↻p it!