‘He helped shape the modern world’: gif inventor Stephen Wilhite dies after getting Covid - The Guardian

He created the image file format that defined an internet culture for decades in 1987 while working at CompuServe

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 … [+3134 chars]

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