Even if you’ve never heard of Steve Wilhite, the amount of time you’ve spent staring at computer graphics powered by technology he created may be incalculable. Wilhite did not come up with the GIF ...

Everyone loves animated GIFs, but you might not realize that their grainy, jerky video can teach us a lot about the compromises that computer scientists everywhere have to make. The low frame rates ...

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 ...

We've all seen it at this point. Antonio Banderas sees something good on a computer, leans back in his chair and places his fist to his mouth in satisfaction. It's a reaction GIF with few competitors ...

Stephen Wilhite, a computer programmer who invented the GIF, the humble but versatile file format that became an Internet mainstay, helping people share charts, photographs and viral animations — ...

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If you used a “soft G” like in "jelly" to pronounce the popular peanut butter brand, you got it right. And if you went with a hard “G” like in "goodie" for those frequently shared looping videos, you ...

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 ...