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2014·The social era

Tenor

The GIF keyboard, which put a reaction library inside the act of typing.

You might remember it as GIF Keyboard

An early online video

The story

What this was

A GIF search service built keyboard-first for phones, later bought by Google. Where Giphy made GIFs searchable, Tenor made reaching for one a keystroke, and between them the animated reaction became a normal part of a sentence.

It first appeared in 2014, during the social era.

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Where it came from

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What happens
A GIF search service built keyboard-first for phones, later bought by Google. Where Giphy made GIFs searchable, Tenor made reaching for one a keystroke, and between them the animated reaction became a normal part of a sentence.
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