Editor’s Note: This story originally published in March 2018. We’re republishing the piece following news that Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead creators of the GIF, died earlier this month after ...

More than 150 years before Buzzfeed uploaded its first cat GIF, people were already captivated by looping animations. In those days, of course, there was no photoshop or screen grabbing, no Tumblrs ...

Not long after the process of Daguerreotype photography was unveiled in 1839, early photographers turned their eyes upward, and a number of photographers, including Daguerre himself, tried to capture ...