[Coco] Coco3 GIF viewer demonstrated

[John W. Linville]

I gotta say, this seems like a bit of an overreaction. Have a
Snickers? ;-)

John

On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 03:15:55PM +0000, rietveld rietveld wrote:
> I guess I am one of those n00b's.    I apologize for using this group as a tool to improve my coco skill set. Clearly I offended your greatness with my shear ignorance.
> 
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> From: John W. Linville
> Sent: Monday, March 5, 2018 10:00 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco3 GIF viewer demonstrated
> 
> 
> And there was virtually no argument about it for 20+ years. In fact,
> using the 'hard G' pronunciation was a mark of a complete n00b for
> most in the BBS/Internet world.
> 
> Then some self-important hipster types rediscovered the format
> and adopted it for its ability to show animations. Shockingly, the
> coffee swilling bearded ones couldn't be bothered to learn how to
> pronounce it...
> 
> John
> 
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 08:33:07AM -0600, James Jones wrote:
> > That would include the people at CompuServe who created the format.
> > http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/ for details.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:19 AM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I know that there are two ways to pronounce it. There is a peanut butter
> > > that is named JIF. Obviously, it is pronounced with the J or soft G sound.
> > > Therefore, it seems reasonable to assume that GIF would be pronounced with
> > > the hard G sound. That said, there will always be those that insist it
> > > should be pronounced with a soft G.
> > >
> > > Wayne
> > >
> > >
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