Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of short-video format the Gif, has died aged 74. His wife, Kathaleen, said that he died of Covid-19 on March 14. Mr Wilhite, who lived in Milford, Ohio, won a Webby lifetime achievement award in 2013 for inventing the Gif, which decades after its creation became omnipresent in memes and on […]
![Gif inventor Stephen Wilhite dies aged 74 This photo provided by Webby Awards, Stephen Wilhite accepts his Webby lifetime achievement award on May 2013 in New York. Wihite, he inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, has died. His wife, Kathaleen, said Thursday, March 24, 2022, in a phone interview that he died of COVID on March 14. (Webby Awards via AP)](https://technology.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/featureimage-24-140x140.jpg)