On Twitter, “GIF” became a trending topic as some folks pushed back. “Graphics Interchange Format. Graphics. Not Jraphics. #GIF #hardg,” wrote Web designer Dan Cederholm.

Here is a timeline of how to pronounce GIF, one of the great debates of the internet age. June 1987: Steve Wilhite releases the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, while working for Compuserve ...

Stephen Wilhite, the man widely credited as being the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format image, better known as the gif, has died at the age of 74.

The GIF, or graphics interchange format, was introduced to the world by Compuserve in 1987. The compressed format was the ideal for performing image transfers across the slow modem connections of ...

Today GIFs are synonymous with short, looping, animations. But they got their start as a way of displaying still images. Steve Wilhite started work on the Graphics Interchange Format in early 1986.

A patent underlying the popular GIF format is set to expire soon. That could make PNG, created as a royalty free alternative, obsolete--unless other issues come into play.

The decades-old GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) lets people create silent, auto-playing, perpetually repeating animations, and it's found a particular techno-fashionable niche on sites like ...

GIF is an acronym for Graphics Interchange Format. It was developed in the late 1980’s by Steve Wilhite while working at CompuServe and has gained world-wide popularity with its wide support and ...

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format): Limits the number of colors to 256, which alone cuts down in its size and means major limitations for image quality. But gather up a bunch of them and link them ...

“The GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), pronounced ‘JIF,’ was designed by CompuServe and the official specification released in June of 1987.” [This means that] in their very own document ...

There’s something unique about the GIF, especially as the “Graphics Interchange Format” is one of the oldest moving image formats available to the internet.