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An Honor For the Creator of the Gif


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Steve Wilhite, GIF

Steve Wilhite was featured in an October 1987 issue of the CompuServe magazine Online Today for inventing the GIF.

Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs, and MIFFs.

From The New York Times
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