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andremat
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... please repeat after me: gif.
mattl
on July 8, 2018
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I generally go with “GIF with a soft G is the format, GIF with a hard G is the culture.”
kevin_thibedeau
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Everyone involved in the creation of GIF and CompuShow pronounce it as "jif". Anything else is sacrelige.
mattl
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Those people aren’t part of the lifestyle or culture. I wish they were.
ts4z
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CompuServe.
kevin_thibedeau
on July 8, 2018
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CompuShow was the DOS GIF viewer.
ts4z
on July 11, 2018
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D’oh. Thanks.
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