Stephen Wilhite, one of the people behind the invention of the GIF image format, has died in Ohio, his wife announced. He was 74.
March 24 (UPI) — Stephen Wilhite, one of the people behind the invention of the GIF image format, has died in Ohio, his wife announced. He was 74. Wilhite died on March 14 after a being hospitalized with COVID-19, Kathaleen Wilhite told NPR and The Verge. « It came on suddenly, » she said. « He woke up one morning and he said, ‘Honey, I don’t feel good. I don’t feel good at all.’ And he was running a fever, throwing up so badly. And then the next day he started coughing badly, » she said Wednesday. Kathaleen Wilhite, who also had the novel coronavirus, had her husband, who went by the name « Steve, » taken to a hospital near their home in Milford, Ohio.
