The Man Who Invented GIF Passes Away at 74; Here’s to Stephen E. Wilhite!
The Man Who Invented GIF Passes Away at 74; Here’s to Stephen E. Wilhite! While GIFs have become popular amongst general internet-treaders only in the recent past, the Graphic Image Format (GIF) was invented way back in 1987 by a team of engineers at CompuServe. It was led by the American computer scientist Stephen E. Wilhite, who is deemed as the inventor of GIF. Unfortunately, Wilhite succumbed to COVID-19 last week and passed away in his hometown of Milford, Ohio....