{"id":4177,"date":"2013-05-23T21:33:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T02:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2018-03-30T10:48:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:48:32","slug":"gif-its-pronounced-jif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=4177","title":{"rendered":"GIF, It&#8217;s Pronounced . . . . &#8220;JIF&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Steve Wilhite it is pronounced &#8220;JIF&#8221; with a soft g (he should know, he invented it),\u00c2\u00a0 so it sounds like the peanut butter brand. That was his five word message, presented as an animated GIF,\u00c2\u00a0 when he received a Lifetime Achievement Award (at this years Webby Awards) for inventing the GIF file format in 1987.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->You can see it all here in this short video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CBtKxsuGvko\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Webby recipients are limited to a five word acceptance speech. i can think of several other award ceremonies that would benefit from that policy.<\/p>\n<p>Not wanting to miss out on such a wonderful opportunity for self promotion, the Smucker&#8217;s company capitalized on the moment with a GIF of their own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22JIF-custom1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4178\" title=\"22JIF-custom1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/22JIF-custom1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>The GIF (short for Graphics Interchange Format) file format is widely used for 8 bit animated graphics on the internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Steve Wilhite it is pronounced &#8220;JIF&#8221; with a soft g (he should know, he invented it),\u00c2\u00a0 so it sounds like the peanut butter brand. That was his five word message, presented as an animated GIF,\u00c2\u00a0 when he received &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=4177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19816,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions\/19816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}