# Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died - The Verge

<https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/23/22992066/stephen-wilhite-gif-creator-dies>

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## What Jamie wrote

GIFs will be with us forever. The writeup here focuses too much on memes in my opinion. Before 24-bit color and JPEG's, GIFs were the only widely-used portable graphics format.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT217: Weekly Thing #217 / Ukraine, Coaching, Population](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/217/), Briefly

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## Elsewhere

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