Do you know what GIF stands for?

 Do you know what GIF stands for?

Animated images are used by almost everyone on social media.

The word Gif is used for these images, but do you know what words it stands for?

Yes, it is a 3 word acronym and very few people know about it.

What is Jeff?

GIF is basically an image file that contains moving images and they have a scene playing over and over again.

Unlike a video, an animated image file size is very small and can be easily shared via text, email or social media etc.

This format was invented in 1987 by an American computer scientist, Steve Vilty.

They developed this format to compress moving images to speed up downloading, sending animations and simple graphics, or using them over slow dial-up Internet connections.

Now GIFs are used more and more to express different emotions on social media.

So what words is it an acronym for?

Jeff's creator, Steve Violti, explained about the words that Juff stands for.

He said that GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format.

The name was chosen by Steve Vielty and his team to refer to the format as Jeff.

He said he gets upset when people call Jeff a "guff" and it's very common.