Stephen Wilhite, the man widely credited as being the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format image, better known as the gif, has died at the age of 74. Wilhite’s wife Kathleen has been confirming ...

Stephen Wilhite worked at an online service provider CompuServe in the 1980s and created the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) in 1987 Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left ...

Those short, animated loops that have captivated the Web for decades? They’re pronounced like a brand of peanut butter. Steve Wilhite created the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, while working for ...

It's June 15—otherwise known as the birthday of the Graphics Interchange Format, or the GIF. To celebrate, take a look at some of the most important GIFs in history. According to Steve Wilhite, an ...

From its humble beginnings on black and white computers to its now ubiquitous usage in memes and how Facebook is celebrating the GIF's birthday THE GIF turned 30 today, so, let’s wish the Graphical ...

We can’t settle iPhone vs. Android or “Star Wars” vs. “Star Trek” for you. But we can settle another long-running geek debate: Those short, animated loops that have captivated the Web for decades?

Steve Wilhite, created of the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), yesterday announced that he was annoyed that people failed to pronounce the name of the file format correctly. Speaking to the New York ...

We can’t settle iPhone vs. Android or “Star Wars” vs. “Star Trek” for you. But another long-running geek debate was put to rest Tuesday night. Those short, animated loops that have captivated the Web ...