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, ...

The proponents of GIF's pronunciation have been long polarized despite the continuing discussion of the format's pronunciation. Imgur On Tuesday, the New York Times published a story on Steve Wilhite ...

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 ...

We’ve now heard it from Mr. Hooked on Phonics himself. “Jeopardy” host Alex Trebek has stoked the flames of the undying Internet debate over how to correctly pronounce “GIF.” According to Trebek, GIF, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. As this is an argument about the underpinnings of the English language, ...

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 ...

And so on. But the thing is? The Times is right. The first GIF I ever made, which, lamentably, isn't currently online, was of breakdancers. (It was sort of like the image at left, which is from this ...