The GIF inventor, Stephen Wilhite, has died of COVID-19 at the age of 74. Wilhite worked at Compuserve, one of the biggest American online service providers in the 80s, where he first developed the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) in 1987. According to Engadget, Wilhite created GIFs to allow photo transfers over slow modem connections, they … Continue reading Stephen Wilhite, GIF Inventor, Dies Of COVID-19