{"id":157207,"date":"2023-04-12T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/people-are-only-just-realising-what-gif-stands-for-and-theyve-been-saying-it-wrong-their-whole-life\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:36:16","slug":"gif-is-a-term-that-people-are-just-beginning-to-understand-theyve-known-it-all-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/gif-is-a-term-that-people-are-just-beginning-to-understand-theyve-known-it-all-their-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"GIF is a term that people are just beginning to understand. They’ve known it all their lives."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The GIF is a long-standing communication tool across all social media platforms.<\/p>\n

However, many people using them don’t know what these acronyms mean.<\/p>\n

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It is a shocker to discover what GIF means.<\/span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although there has been much debate about what GIF means, Steve Wilhite (an American computer scientist) has confirmed it to be Graphics Interchange Format. <\/p>\n

Wilhite and his colleagues chose the name to make it easy for them to call it a GIF. <\/p>\n

In 1987, he created the file format while working for Compuserve Internet Service Provider. It was at a time when dial-up internet connections were slow.<\/p>\n

Wilhite utilized a data compression technology that enabled images to be transmitted at higher speeds than ever before.<\/p>\n

This invention allowed the company to provide customers with the opportunity to download images in colour, rather than just black-and-white.<\/p>\n

The pronunciation of the acronym is another contentious issue.<\/p>\n

Although some people pronounce it as “gif”, Wilhite previously stated that it is actually “jif”.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the New York Times,\u00a0Steve Wilhite\u00a0said he was “annoyed” there was still a debate over how to say the acronym.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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