What Was the First Gif Ever?
Contents It’s June 15—Otherwise Known as the Birthday of the Graphics Interchange Format, or the Gif. to Celebrate, Take a Look at Some of the Most Important...
It’s June 15—otherwise known as the birthday of the Graphics Interchange Format, or the GIF. To celebrate, take a look at some of the most important GIFs in history. According to Steve Wilhite, an inventor on the original team that created the GIF format, the very first GIF was of a plane.
What was the very first GIF?
On June 15, 1987, Trevor and his team, which included inventor Steve Wilhite, released an enhanced version of the GIF called 87a. The new format allowed people to create compressed animations using timed delays. “I think the first GIF was a picture of a plane.
Who invented the first GIF?
Steve Wilhite is an American computer scientist who worked at CompuServe and was the primary creator of the GIF file format, which went on to become the de facto standard for 8-bit color images on the Internet until PNG became a viable alternative. He developed the GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) in 1987.
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