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GIF, Animated GIF

Say "Jiff" (like the peanut butter), or say it with a hard "g" (like "gift"). Or circumvent the whole toMAYto/toMAHto issue by calling the GIF by its proper name: graphics interchange format, which is a bit-mapped graphics file format popular for compressing images to a file size that's manageable to download. (The other image format found on the Web is JPEG). Several GIFs can be joined into a single GIF89 file to create an animation. It may not be as fancy or sharp as some more advanced animation formats, but GIF animations are popular because they're memory-petite and almost every browser can see them.

   
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GIF, Animated GIF
GUI (Graphical User Interface)
Hacker, Cracker
Homepage
Html (Hypertext Markup Language)
Hyperlink, Hypertext
Icon
Interface
Internet, Intranet
ISP (Internet Service Provider)
Java
JavaScript
JPEG
Mailing List, Listserv
Mailto
Modem
Mouse
Netiquette
Newsgroup, Usenet
Plug-in

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