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I use GIF pronunciation to tell how long someone has been on the Internet and precursors of the Internet. I got my first modem (300 baud Mitey Mo) in 1985 and
by 300bps 13y ago
I use GIF pronunciation to tell how long someone has been on the Internet and precursors of the Internet. I got my first modem (300 baud Mitey Mo) in 1985 and I've seen this story come up at least 50 times since then.
If you've been on the Internet over 15 years then this will not be news to you. The other thing I find interesting about the GIF format is how everyone assumes it was designed for animation. I saw someone on reddit "knowingly" tell another redditor "oh yeah there can be non animated GIFs they just consist of a single frame of animation."
- untog 13y agoI've been on the internet for nearly 20 and didn't know. How would I find out? I wasn't aubscribed to alt.pronunciationpedantry
- flomo 13y agoOn old Macintosh systems, JPEG files would often be labeled "JFIF file"[1]. This created some confusion which I believe contributed to people adopting the hard G pronunciation. Back during the dotcom boom, there was a joke: "We'll hire anyone who can spell GIF." At some point even the joke transitioned to a hard G sound. Some of us long ago decided to 'go with the flow'. [1] This was due to a freeware program called JPEGView, which was often set up as the default viewer for .JPG files. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_File_Interchange_Format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_File_Interchange_Format