[PLUG-TALK] Stephen Wilhite, who created the GIF, dies at age 74

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Mar 24 19:06:49 UTC 2022


GIFs, those looping animated images, are a universal language – when words
fail, a clip of a cool cat spinning beats on a turntable or Homer Simpson
slowly backing into a hedge should do the trick. Wilhite may not have known
it when he created the first GIF in 1987, but his memes in motion would go
on to rule the internet from the days of Web 1.0 to the present, and likely
for years to come.

Read the full obit here:
<https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/tech/gif-creator-stephen-wilhite-death-cec/index.html>

Rich




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