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    1 year ago

    JIF is peanut butter

    GIF is Graphic Interchange Format

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      1 year ago

      The creator of the Gradual Interface Forget wanted people to pronounce it with a J literally because he wanted it to use the name recognition of the peanut butter - and I don’t exactly care about their profits or about copyright, but it’s a bad reason.