My daughter just called me from a field with her friends in NOLA asking about something and I ended up in a brief conversation with her and her squad of girls about the pronunciation of "GIF."

In parting, I shared Steve Wilhite's 2013 Webby awards slide.

Her friends actually got on board with my old school knowledge, amazingly.

#GIF #softG #computinghistory #vintagecomputing #reteocomputing

@blakespot i'll pronounce it that way only when graphics will become jraffics
@guesswho I assume you pronounce "JPEG" as "jay-feg," then. Yes?
@blakespot it's written as "photo", not "foto"
@guesswho Right - it phonetically it's an "F" sound. So by your logic, JPEG should be pronounced "jay-feg".