Thanasis Kinias on Nostr: There’s an interesting linguistic thing happening where the word ‘GIF’ has ...
There’s an interesting linguistic thing happening where the word ‘GIF’ has ceased to refer to a file format and come to refer simply to short video clips. I just realized that most of the ‘GIFs’ out there now are actually .mp4 or other video files.
I wonder how many young people even know that .gif was just a crappy 8-bit file format with patent problems?
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