Twenty-five years ago Friday, Steve Wilhite invented the GIF file format and bestowed upon the world the perfect vehicle for some of the best memes ever created. It’s more than a picture but not ...

The history of the GIF file format Humble beginnings. The GIF was simply the best and most versatile image format around said Alexander “Sandy” Trevor, the former chief technical officer of ...

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Wilhite and his team at CompuServe created the the GIF image file format from the earlier Unisys-owned LZW algorithm in 1987. It went on to become the most popular image format on the internet.

Wilhite, who died from complications of COVID-19 at age 74 on March 14, is the man who gave us a graphics file type called graphics interchange format, better known as GIF.