According to the British "Daily Telegraph" reported on June 17th, Beijing time, today is the 30th anniversary of the birth of GIF animation. The beauty of GIF animation lies in its use of animated forms instead of written expressions. For 30 years, GIF animation has brought people endless fun. GIF is short for "Graphics Interchange Format". Today, in 1987, Steve Wilhite created this animation format. In that year, Wilt worked for CompuServe, the first Internet service provider in the United States. As a software developer, his task was to create a color image format for downloadable files. In 1995, the GIF began to support looping, which laid the foundation for the popularity of the GIF animation format. GIF animated images are usually used for short animations and low-resolution video clips and have no sound. This animation format is also used for color-limited Logo designs. In the early days of the development of the Internet, the GIF animation once became popular; later, with the rise of social media, the GIF has become popular again. In social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp as well as short messages, users can find video clips for looping. How to pronounce GIF The widespread popularity of GIFs has been undisputed. But 30 years after the animation of this format was created, people still debated how to pronounce the GIF. The question is whether the pronunciation of the letter G should be reread or weak. In fact, as early as in 2013, the founder of the GIF move format, Wilt, tried to end this debate and avoid any further debate. He said at the time that the letter “G†in the GIF chart format should be weakly read, like the reading of “G†in “generousâ€. He added, "The Oxford English Dictionary accepts two pronunciations, but their explanation is wrong." With Wilt's ambiguity, the correct pronunciation of the letter "G" in the GIF format should be read weakly, and the entire GIF should be pronounced "jif". In order to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the creation of the GIF animation format, Facebook added a GIF animation sending function to its comments. The social networking company said that last year its users sent 13 billion GIF animations through Messenger. Among the company’s information flow, GIF animation became the main media format. "We know that people like to use GIF animations to communicate on Messenger. We also make it easier for users to use GIF drawings on Facebook. Today, we will add GIFs to all Facebook users around the world," Facebook said.