Even if you’ve never heard of Steve Wilhite, the amount of time you’ve spent staring at computer graphics powered by technology he created may be incalculable. Wilhite did not come up with the GIF ...

Stephen Wilhite was merely trying to solve a technical problem when he invented the GIF, or graphics interchange format, in 1987. As a programmer at the computer-services firm CompuServe, he was ...

Everyone loves animated GIFs, but you might not realize that their grainy, jerky video can teach us a lot about the compromises that computer scientists everywhere have to make. The low frame rates ...

We've all seen it at this point. Antonio Banderas sees something good on a computer, leans back in his chair and places his fist to his mouth in satisfaction. It's a reaction GIF with few competitors ...

Stephen Wilhite, a computer programmer who invented the gif, the humble but versatile file format that became an internet mainstay, helping people share charts, photographs and viral animations – ...

If seeing GIFs across the web isn’t enough to satisfy your need for the short moving clips, you can now buy a machine that plays them without the need for electricity or an internet connection. Called ...

Stephen Wilhite, a computer programmer who invented the GIF, the humble but versatile file format that became an Internet mainstay, helping people share charts, photographs and viral animations — ...

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