Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios

WHY don't geeks get their heads OUT OF THEIR COMPUTERs Derriere and get into the real world. THIS VIDEO IS FOR LIFELESS DEAD PEOPLE.

wow, they hired early 2010s tumblr to make a video for pbs

Came here just cause of my art teacher.

and for some reason these moving pics take up space on your phone when using texts..

Gif animation is still in its infancy,uncharted territory.
The medium is still largely under exploited!.

Gifs are what's left after  short sighted idiots killed Flash which was feature rich and made the internet a wonderfully colorful, artful experience.  It took a few years for bandwidth to catch up and now we can run flash movies with no problem but EVERY WEBPAGE LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME.  SO FUCKING BORING.  THE INTERNET IS FUCKING BORING NOW.  Some of you weren't even alive when this thing was rockin some seriously cool websites.

came here just for the pronunciation

It's Jif, but everyone says gif. I like gif. It sounds better to me, so that's how I say it.

I love Portlandia.

Gifs are super. Thanks for sharing - always fought I have a strange hobby - but we are thousends, we give simple fotos the live back so we are lifegif.ers from now on. Thanks for your short introduction.

Pronounce it GIF or JIF!

It doesn't matter.

Internet geeks know what you mean not matter
which way you pronounce it.

Anybody who corrects you for pronouncing it GIF and
not JIF is just trying to prove that they are smart.

Screw them!

Pronounce it whichever way works for you.

People who know web design or know of web design know
what you mean whichever way you pronounce it!

I prefer to say GIF

But if you prefer JIF that is fine too!

Rock on all you web animators out there!

Rock On!

Rock Hard!

It's not prenounced jif the G stands for Graphical not Jraphical

That is so bizarre... between 15-20 years ago, I saw a documentary with one of the creators and he clearly called a gif vs jif. Now I need to find this video!!!

here i bought u a jift

"Yiffs" .....

Increases in internet speed probably helped gifs return in popularity again. It's novelty wore off in the beginning, but that was along with the internet being new too and everybody trying stuff out. Now that we've established standards like web design we're able to focus on more artistic or just more elaborate methods on conveying messages.

what. are you talking about?

So your saying JIF are the initials for "Jraphics Interchange Format) ? DUH! thus it should be pronounced GIF ,with the G of Graphics ¿ No ? graphics,great,goof,GOD !

omg the nostalgia for under construction gifs

Jif forever!

or "Too each there own"

Doesn't matter what you call it as long as you like it. Each to their own = To each their own

Hi friends of PBS OffBooks, we would like to schedule a date projection of the documentary, do you have an email her we can write to you? Thnaks a lot!

6:22 u talking bout this guy right? damn that guy looks like your profile picture lmfao!

THIS IS ANCIENT INTERNET HISTORY HERE xD

Hipsters are the authority on animated gifs, apparently.

Well, English has weird pronunciations that are hard to grasp sometimes. :P

yo

There are numerous examples of that rule not applying to acronyms/initiations.

hi there wubbz

The guy with the mustache that says it's pronounced with a hard "G" is a willfully ignorant turd that doesn't understand what an initialism is. Yes, we all know what it stands for. Do you know how search engine queries work? Because that's all it takes to figure out how to pronounce it.

Here I thought people knew what the internet was.

Nitpicking, but there was no web 1.0 prior to the early 90's. TBL created hyper text transfer protocol in 89 and Marc Andressen made mosaic in 93. So the web doesn't go back that far.

If it is JIF's does this mean the creator was Dina Martina?

I love how homestuck uses gifs =D

This reminds me of the Skulltula debate with the Zelda series. I still can't understand how people insist on pronouncing it "Skull-tull-uh" instead of "Skull-chew-la." It's obviously a portmanteau of the words skull and tarantula, so the pronunciation should be obvious too. If I saw a hug hairy arthopod in my living room, I wouldn't say, "Look out for that taran-tull-uh!"

PBS is killin' it! lol

GIMP? Is that pronounced "JIMP"?

it doesn't matter what you call it. The Pronunciation of GIF hankschannel

Let the GIF vs JIF war... begin!!!!

You can use programs like GIMP. There are many tutorial online.

How To make GIF?

Sure, but the original creators pronounced it JIF. :)

They even touch on this at the end. Choosy developers choose "Gif"

Jif for life

If that's true then I can invent a word, lets say 'Mouse Stick' and have it pronounce "Moosi Styke"