[Coco] . Gif

Rick Adams rick at rickadams.org
Thu Mar 24 08:34:49 EDT 2022


Jodspeed.

On 3/24/2022 5:29 AM, rietveld rietveld wrote:
> I saw this in the morning news
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> "Good morning. Stephen Wilhite, the creator of the GIF, has died at 74, The Verge reported. The GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, dates back to the 1980s, when Wilhite was looking for a way to send high-quality graphics in color during the early stages of the internet.
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> If you’re wondering how to pronounce Wilhite’s magnum opus, he settled the debate in a 2013 interview with the NYT. “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.” "
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