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The History Of The Animated GIF
Do you have seven minutes to watch a video about the birth of the animated GIF? I ask because I have no idea what your schedule is like today. If you do, here you go. Related: Is it really pronounced "jiff"? Because if so I have been embarrassing myself for years now.
Both pronounciations are acceptable, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a jerk. This was covered in last week's Judge John Hodgman podcast, I think. #downwithprescriptivism
@lbf I pronounce it "gherk."
"Jiff" is only acceptable if you think "graphics" is pronounced "jraphics." AND IT IS NOT.
@petejayhawk do you put ghin in your martini?
@petejayhawk
Gif as in giraffics.
jraphic
It's "Kathie Lee Gifford", not "Katie Lee Jifford".
Oh boy since the 1990s I have been saying jif. Is this wrong, you are saying? Damn it.
@barnhouse That's kickin' it old school.
7 minutes on GIFs and not one mention of 4chan?
Don't worry Cole has a book about this video due in 12 minutes.
@Krugmanic Depressive Oof. I know, right? These, also, were some of the most desperately pretentious people I've ever heard speak. GIFs are "art" now, so suck it, Alfred Stieglitz.
When did hipsters take possession of animated jifs?
@Adam Gillitt@twitter I think it happened around web 1.0 in the seventies. (I cringed when I heard that.)
@Adam Gillitt@twitter
Ray of Light – Monster Paws
http://vimeo.com/35807651
The Graphics Interchange Format