Thursday, March 24, 2022

GIF Inventor Steve Wilhite Dies at 74 After Battling COVID-19

Stephen Wilhite, the creator of the GIF has died of COVID-19 at the age of 74. Wilhite received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in New York in 2013 for inventing the GIF in 1987, while working as an engineering lead at CompuServe, an early internet service provider.

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