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 ...

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 ...

Thursday marks the 30th anniversary of the GIF, or graphics interchange format, a file that supports static and animated images. The GIF was developed by software writer Steve Wilhite while employed ...

The GIF, or graphics interchange format, was introduced to the world by Compuserve in 1987. The compressed format was the ideal for performing image transfers across the slow modem connections of the ...

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 ...

Imgur's new GIFV format means animated images load faster, look better and play when shared on social networks. Will the 1987-era GIF format finally fade from use? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

An installation in the New York Museum of the Moving Image presents contemporary art GIFs in their original format, on the computers used to build them. Reading time 4 minutes There’s something about ...