We’ve come a long way since the mid-’90s, when animated .gif graphics files were the first sign that the Internet could be lively. But they were so…tacky. Not any more. Now a new generation of artists have picked up animated .gifs, creating an entirely new artform out of the file format that we thought was long dead.

Here’s a gallery of just a few of these exuberant graphics — follow the link for a whole lot more.

Via Fast Company