Re: GIF?
From sam wood <sj...@saucer.cc.umr.edu>
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· 14 Dec 1994 20:22 · View full thread
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Timmy (tsh...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: About 4 years ago, I saw this .GIF of 'Bob', the guy who invented the
: .GIF format. The .GIF of Bob was in a new encoding style, and had text
: scrolling through it. The text briefly described the new features of this
: encoding sytle. At the end, it said something to the effect of:
: "And, yes, it's pronouned `jif'". That settled it for me and my friends.
me and my friends saw this too.. it's distributed with C-Show... Since it
was compu$erve, we pronounce it Gif not jif...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,55903d27ea2d40af,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-14 12:22:32 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!hptemp1.cc.umr.edu!sjw From: sj...@saucer.cc.umr.edu (sam wood) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: GIF? Date: 14 Dec 1994 20:22:32 GMT Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3cnk68$4n...@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu> References: <943...@psuvm.psu.edu> <3bovks$9e...@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <199...@zeus.aix.calpoly.edu> <Pin...@osfb.aber.ac.uk> <D0F...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: saucer.cc.umr.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
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