GIF inventor tries, fails to settle pronunciation question
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 12:20
in Biology & Nature
The Webby Awards gave its lifetime achievement award to GIF inventor Steve Wilhite Tuesday night. For his five-word acceptable speech, Wilhite had the words "It's pronounced 'jif' not 'gif" projected in huge block letters on a screen above the stage, reigniting one of the internet's oldest "holy wars."