The man credited with creating the GIF has died at age 74. Stephen Wilhite, who died last week in Milford, Ohio, led the team at the online service provider CompuServe that introduced the Graphics ...

The late Stephen Wilhite created the GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) file in 1987, while he was working for online service provider CompuServe. March 23, 2022 ...

Stephen Wilhite, the man widely credited as being the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format image, better known as the gif, has died at the age of 74. Wilhite’s wife Kathleen has been confirming ...

Stephen Wilhite was merely trying to solve a technical problem when he invented the GIF, or graphics interchange format, in 1987. As a programmer at the computer-services firm CompuServe, he was ...

The man who spawned millions of memes via his invention in 1987 of the humble GIF has died. Steve Wilhite, whose Graphics Interchange Format helped personalize the internet, lost a two-week battle ...

Steve Wilhite, inventor of the graphics interchange format, also known as GIF, died this month at the age of 74. Animated or not, GIFs may now be a common, free feature of the internet, but the tech ...

An internet legend, Stephen E. Wilhite, the inventor of the GIF who said it should be pronounced “JIF,” has passed away at the age of 74. Stephen E. Wilhite, beloved husband, father, grandfather, ...

- Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the GIF file format, died on March 14 due to complications from Covid-19, NPR reported on March 23. - Wilhite created the GIF while working for CompuServe in 1987, ...