It's with that horrible reality in mind that we regretfully inform you that the spinning "loading" icon we all know and hate is officially called the "throbber ... often animated GIF or AVI ...

One that immediately erects an image ... loading wheel that appears on computers is unbelievably called a ‘throbber’. According to the PCMag encyclopaedia, a throbber is: “An animated ...

A quick Google search defines GIF as “a lossless format for image files that supports both animated and static ... it has the potential to have a slow loading time, regardless of how they ...