RIP of the day
RIP of the day
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Stephen Wilhite, inventor of the GIF, died of Covid-19 at the age of 74. He “never got 1 cent” out of his invention, said his wife, nor did he complain about not making a fortune: “He was just so proud that he had done that.”
Stephen Wilhite created the format to solve a technical problem in 1987 and never cashed in on his creation- https://giphy.com/ex…AQUTE
- It would not be bad, if the companies that have taken advantage of it, paid a good pension to their widowOBBTKN
- his last words were "it's pronounced..."_niko
- his name is was pronounced step henkingsteven
- lejendfadein11
- Seems his wife is more upset about him not cashing infuturefood
- but had an animated lifehotroddy
- He's with God now. Not with Jod.garbage
- LOL @_nikoAkagiyama
- How would he have cashed in I wonder? Also he created the GIF while working at Compuserve.yuekit