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WHAT ARE GIFs?

Gifs are animated images widely used on social media; but what does this acronym mean? Let's find out more! Who has never heard of gifs (as they say in English), the nice moving images widely used on social networks - on Facebook they are used to comment and on others you can also post with these images.

But what does GIF mean?

It is an acronym… it stands for Graphics Interchange Format, a bitmap image format. The range of colors that includes this format is only 256, as regards a single image. Therefore a single image in .gif format is distinguished from a series of images of this type, which are the animated ones that all social network users know. The .gif format refers to digital images, which are found in every PC. This format was invented in 1987 by the team led by Steve Wilhite. In the computer world it has spread until today .. Gif The latter are a sequence of many .gif type images, which has achieved enormous popularity in the years of the rise of social networks, from 2009 to the present day. How to pronounce it The correct pronunciation of the word gif is not as many think "ghif" with a hard g, but it is how to read in Italian. By now in animated gifs they have become commonly used among web surfers. One of the most used sites to find gifs of all kinds is giphy.com. Instead, moving on to gif contents, the most used ones are taken directly from TV or cinema. Among these, some stand out that went viral in a very short time. Some examples are: John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, the sequence in which he spreads his arms as a sign of doubt and amazement. via GIPHY the cat who uncontrollably presses the keys of a pc. via GIPHY and also Judge Judy, in a famous American show, who puts his finger to the clock to say that there is a hurry.