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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, was first developed by computer scientist working at CompuServe back in 1987. And while ...

It might be one of the biggest debates of the digital age — how in all of cyberspace are we supposed to pronounce “GIF?” Since the creation of the animated loop now an essential part of meme culture, ...

Along with whether or not Al Gore invented the Internet, figuring out the correct pronunciation of GIF is one of the earliest questions of the Internet. I grew up believing it was hard-G GIF. Most ...

How do you pronounce GIF? Well today, it feels like The Internet—yeah, all of it—is about to read the New York Times the riot act over that very question. And so on. Note that some of them are taking ...

Twenty-five years ago Friday, Steve Wilhite invented the GIF file format and bestowed upon the world the perfect vehicle for some of the best memes ever created. It’s more than a picture but not quite ...

Two years ago, Steve Wilhite, the inventor of the GIF, a file format that shows moving images that's all the rage with kids these days, told The New York Times that everyone was pronouncing his ...

We can’t settle iPhone vs. Android or “Star Wars” vs. “Star Trek” for you. But we can settle another long-running geek debate: Those short, animated loops that have captivated the Web for decades?

If it weren’t for Andy Milonakis tweeting that “choosy web designers choose GIF,” I’d never be able to remember how to pronounce the damned file extension. Are Andy and I really pronouncing it ...