Steve Wilhite, created of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), yesterday announced that he was annoyed that people failed to pronounce the name of the file format correctly.

Here is a timeline of how to pronounce GIF, one of the great debates of the internet age. June 1987: Steve Wilhite releases the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, while working for Compuserve ...

The GIF, or graphics interchange format, was introduced to the world by Compuserve in 1987. The compressed format was the ideal for performing image transfers across the slow modem connections of ...

On Twitter, “GIF” became a trending topic as some folks pushed back. “Graphics Interchange Format. Graphics. Not Jraphics. #GIF #hardg,” wrote Web designer Dan Cederholm.

The decades-old GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) lets people create silent, auto-playing, perpetually repeating animations, and it's found a particular techno-fashionable niche on sites like ...

GIF is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format. It was developed in the late 1980’s by Steve Wilhite while working at CompuServe and has gained world-wide popularity with its wide support and ...

They’re pronounced like a brand of peanut butter. Steve Wilhite created the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, while working for Compuserve in 1987.