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According to the American technology media The Verge
One of the main inventors of GIF
Stephen Wilhite
He died of COVID-19 on 14 March at the age of 74
Stephen Wilhite obituary page
His life is as written on his obituary page
“Even with all his accomplishments
he remained a very humble
kind, and good man”
Even after his success, he was humble and kind
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The origin of this big guy and the birth of GIF
No.1
The birth of the world's first GIF
Stephen Wilhite's career began
CompuServe, the world's first network service provider
Their team at the time
I want to display information such as color weather maps on the Internet
However, due to the limitation of network bandwidth, there is no way to do anything
Wilhite understands some compression techniques
So he was involved in the creation of the GIF format
To say at the time
But only the magic in Harry Potter
To be able to make the pictures in the newspaper move
Excerpt from the Harry Potter short film
After tireless efforts, Willhead created it at home
The first GIF image in the history of the Internet
A plane flying in the air
The first gif image in history created by Willhead at home
Wilhite and his team
Eventually a model was developed called
Graphics Interchange Format" image format
Simply "GIF"
The original GIFs can be adapted to most computer models
It was the only one at the time
A format in which color images can be displayed on a web page
Therefore, it was widely used as soon as it was born
No.2
It is pronounced not "GIF", but "JIF"
About the correct pronunciation of GIFs
It has long been controversial
But the inventor, Wilhite, has a clear account of this
Wilhite photo
In 2013, he told The New York Times.
Although the Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations
But he thinks it should be a soft G
Pronounced "jif"
With the birth of the GIF format, countless memes followed
In an interview with The Times
Wilhite says one of his favorite GIFs is dancing babies
This picture once went viral on the Internet
Wilhite's favorite GIF
No.3
He changed the internet forever
In 2000, Willhead officially retired
According to his wife's description
In his later years, he most enjoyed assembling model trains in his bedroom
When the bad news of Wilhite's death came
Numerous Internet media and netizens
One after another began to mourn the father of GIF
He was praised in this way
"He changed the Internet forever"
International gaming news outlet Dexerto paid tribute to Wilhite
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