Creator of the GIF: Stephen E. Wilhite is Dead

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Stephen Earl Wilhite was an american computer scientist.

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he was the one who created the gif image file format.

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he also received webby lifetime achievement award in 2013.

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he passed away due to covid-19 on 14th march at the age of 74.

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he got the idea of gif while working at compuserve in late 1980s.

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"i think the first gif was a picture of a plane. it was a long time ago."

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in his retirement years, he used to do computer programming and building model trains in his basement.

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in his last days, his condition got worse, he was in coma before passing away on the 14th march.

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also,

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