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Ohio’s Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died (www.theverge.com)
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“He invented GIF all by himself — he actually did that at home and brought it into work after he perfected it,” his wife Kathaleen said. “He would figure out everything privately in his head and then go to town programming it on the computer.”

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