Steve Wilhite - the inventor of the GIF file format - has confirmed that it should actually be pronounced 'Jif'. Wilhite was honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the annual Webby Awards in ...

There is a big debate on the proper pronunciation. When you want to ask someone if they liked the GIF that you sent, how do you say it out loud? Most of us have heard it spoken a couple of different ...

And so on. But the thing is? The Times is right. The first GIF I ever made, which, lamentably, isn't currently online, was of breakdancers. (It was sort of like the image at left, which is from this ...

Jif peanut butter is sharing its label with the word Gif, a brilliant branding move that attempts to settle one of the most important questions of our time: Hard G or soft? The “answer” is on the ...

I started playing around on the Internet back in the early ’90s before there was a fully formed World Wide Web. At that time, the GIF (Graphics Exchange Format) was the image of choice for many things ...

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. Speaking to the New York ...

Jif has released a limited-edition jar of GIF peanut butter in a collaboration meant to be as smooth as the product itself. The purpose is to "settle the great debate" over how to pronounce the ...

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Jif is releasing a limited-edition jar of GIF peanut butter in a collaboration meant to be as smooth as the product itself. The purpose is to "settle the great debate" over how to pronounce the ...

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It didn't require the imprimatur of The New York Times to resolve the GIF pronunciation debate, nor will the paper's assertion on Tuesday actually resolve it. But the war is won, even if the battle ...