If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a gif is worth millions. The image file format has been a defining element of internet culture for decades, with glass-raising DiCaprios and mic-dropping ...

Stephen Wilhite, the creator of the GIF, or the moving image file format that transformed the way people communicate on the web, has died of complications from COVID-19. He was 74. Wilhite died on ...

Stephen Wilhite worked at an online service provider CompuServe in the 1980s and created the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) in 1987 Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left ...

Stephen Wilhite, the computer scientist who created the GIF, has died aged 74 following a battle with COVID. He passed away on March 14 surrounded by family, and his wife Kathaleen told The Verge that ...

Steve Wilhite, the computer scientist who created the popular GIF file format in 1987, died in intensive care last Monday from complications of COVID-19, a report said. He was 74. Wilhite contracted ...

The inventor behind one of the most iconic forms of modern communication has died. Stephen Wilhite, the computer programmer who created the GIF and insisted users pronounce it with a soft "g," was 74.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stephen E. Wilhite, who created the GIF (short for Graphics Interchange Format), has died. He was 74. According to his obituary, ...

Stephen Wilhite died last week from COVID at the age of 74. He is best known for inventing the GIF, which was released in June 1987 by early internet titan, CompuServe, at a time when households ...