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Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the short-video format the GIF, has died of Covid aged 74.
The couple lived in Milford, Ohio.
Wilhite invented the GIF in 1987 while working in CompuServe and won a Webby lifetime achievement award in 2013 for his creation.
The GIF is still a popular video format used across many social media and internet sites.
RIP Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF. This was the first GIF ever created in 1987. pic.twitter.com/gqtMBqEOdg
— Blade McG (@Blade__McG) March 23, 2022
He told the New York Times in 2013: “I saw the format I wanted in my head and then I started programming.”
He also said the first image was an airplane and insisted that the word was pronounced with a soft “G,” like Jif peanut butter.
Anyone using a hard “G,” “are wrong,” he said. “End of story.”
His wife Kathaleen said: “There’s way more to him than inventing GIF”.
She also said after his retirement in 2001 “he never stopped programming.”
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Source : times
