I was using dial-up by ‘96 and was creating my own GIF files by ‘97.

That every single person who used the internet in the ‘90s pronounced the word with a soft-J. Like you, I was also active on the Information Superhighway and I never heard anyone pronounce the word as anything other than hard-G gif. But we’re just two individuals, both with limited experience. Generalizing and saying…

That’s not even remotely true. Stop making up false facts to justify your preference.

I also wonder if it is regional?

I don’t remember ever hearing “jif” until the past 5 years or so, and I’m an Old, so I remember the 90s. I thought people were crazy when I first heard “jif.”

People were pronouncing it as GIF in the 90s as well. GIF is a image file format. JIF is peanut butter.

Unless you pronounce GUI as JEWWY, get the fuck outta here with your JIF nonsense.

No. The G doesn’t stand for Giraffe.

Our cat “talks” pretty loudly and consistently the moment we get in bed and the lights go off. Our hypothesis is that she’s kind of dumb and just forgets we exist, since if you meow back at her, she’ll stop.

Hey, that anagrams to “XOXOX Ben!”

I don’t like this. It is actually a pretty bad idea. Sticking what looks like a toy in an outlet. Yeah... nothing will go wrong there.

Bionic commando...

Think we all learned that a long time ago:

Three potential options here: he doesn’t know about Bionic Commando, he only knows about the Bionic Commando gritty reboot, or he just failed to mention Bionic Commando as one of the influences. Because at the first screenshot I’m like “oh hey, an indie developer is making a bioniccommandolike that’s more of a puzzle…

God yes. You are making me weep with nostalgia.

I still remember waiting 5 to 10 minutes for loads on my Commodore 64, so these minute loads are child’s play.

Looks more like it belongs to the cat.

This is a relaxing chair because the cat approves

Bank Board member Joseph O’Dowd is co-douchebag on this one. He could have let it go, you know, in the name of free speech. Joseph O’Douche indeed.