‘He helped shape the modern world’: gif inventor Stephen Wilhite dies after getting Covid

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‘He helped shape the modern world’: gif inventor Stephen Wilhite dies after getting Covid
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He created the image file format that defined an internet culture for decades in 1987 while working at CompuServe

Steve Wilhite attends the Webby awards in New York in 2013. His wife, Kathaleen Wilhite, said creating the gif was his proudest achievement.Wilhite “invented gif all by himself – he actually did that at home and brought it into work after he perfected it”, said Kathaleen Wilhite to. “He would figure out everything privately in his head and then go to town programming it on the computer.” It was his proudest achievement, she said.

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