Steve Wilhite was an American personality who was known as a computer scientist and has worked at CompuServe. He was the leader of the engineering team that the company owned. The team adapted the GIF image file format and went to create an 8-bit color image on the Internet which later became viable. He was 74 at the time of his death and was the observer of at least three generations in his family, including his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
Early Life
Steve Wilhite was born on 3rd March 1948, and by 1987 started working at CompuServe for the development of GIF, i.e, Graphics Interchange Format. By 2016, the format became popular in the internet world, thriving on website designs, social media, workflow documents, and instructions for how-to-guide. The late Steve Wilhite was an AOL employee at the company called CompuServe, where he worked for the first decade of the 21st century. He worked for wire protocols of the company including HMI (Host Micro Interface), CIM (CompuServe Information Manager), new service features in the early years of the 1990s, web chat software in the late 1990s, and investigating web community models. He worked on these protocols until 2001 when he suffered a stroke and had his departure.
Steve Wilhite Career
Previous to joining CompuServe as information manager, he used to run a team that was aimed to run compilers and run-time systems while having the use of DECsystem-10 computers, which was one of the top computing platforms of the time for the company called CompuServe. Steve Wilhite’s name came into the limelight all of a sudden when he stood for a debate over the pronunciation of the GIF acronym. He was accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary regarding the pronunciation of GIF. He said that they were wrong. It is pronounced with a soft G called JIF. The intended conversation over the matter deliberately echoed the American brand JIF, a brand of peanut butter.
Steve Wilhite Biography |
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| Real Name | Stephen E. Wilhite |
| Birth Date | 3 March 1948 |
| Died Date | 4 March 2022 |
| Aged | 74 Years |
| Birth Place | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Profession | Computer Scientist |
| Religion | Christianity |
| Sun sign | Pieces |
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| Height | in feet inches – 5’ 9” – in Centimeters – 175 cm |
| Weight | in Kilograms – 80 kg – in Pounds – 176 lbs |
| Hair Color | Brown |
| Eye Color | Brown |
| Body Type | Average |
Family |
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| Father | – |
| Mother | – |
| Sister | – |
| Brother | – |
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| School | – |
| College | – |
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| Marital Status | Married |
| Who is his wife? | Kathaleen Wilhite |
| Children | – |
Personal Life
Steve Wilhite was a happy living and married man, who was having a wife named Kathleen, and a family including his one son, four step-children, 11 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. The death of Steve Wilhite happened in front of his wife Kathleen who came in front to describe the scene before his death. She said that one night he came on suddenly and woke her up in the morning while saying that he was not feeling good. That time, he was running with a fever and was throwing up so badly. The next day, his health started declining. He showed the symptoms of a cough that was so bad that it threatened everyone.
Kathleen, who by then contracted with COVID-19 took Steeve to a nearby hospital in Milford, Ohio. He was given the treatment with antibiotics before being placed into intensive care. There were no signs or symptoms of any severe disease in the diagnosis. Ultimately, Steve was sent to a coma. After 10th March, when Kathleen was tested negative with COVID-19, she was able to sit by Steve’s bedside. All of the sudden, on 14th March, Kathleen received a phone call to visit the hospital. Shortly after arrival, she was informed that Steve was no more.
Steve Wilhite Net Worth
Before his demise, Steve was having a well-settled and established house with luxurious facilities that is rumored to be nearly $20 million. He was living in an 11,2000 square-foot luxury house with 8 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. Despite this, he owned a car Bugatti Divo, which was known to be of the amount of $3 million. Summing up, Steve’s estimated net worth was nearly $5 million, including the support from his children and grandchildren’s sides.
