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 ...

The Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, was first developed by computer scientist working at CompuServe back in 1987. And while it has swelled or dipped, the debate over how to pronounce the acronym ...

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 ...

The debate has raged for years over the pronunciation of the acronym for Graphics Interchange Format file type. In one camp, there are those who pronounce GIF with a hard G, as in "good" and "girl." ...

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?

The peanut butter brand sounds different than a term for animated looping images GIF, GIPHY, Jif. Chances are you read those three terms differently, but you know exactly how you think it should sound ...

GIFs are the increasingly ubiquitous animated images that have become the "aesthetic calling card of modern internet culture," as Amy O'Leary at The New York Times puts it. You know, something like ...

As this is an argument about the underpinnings of the English language, let me be frank—the acronym derived from the word "Graphic Interchange Format" is pronounced with a hard G, "GIF," like ...

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 ...