On March 1, Steve Wilhite, the beloved creator of the GIF file format, contracted COVID-19. "It came on suddenly. He woke up one morning and he said, 'Honey, I don't feel good. I don't feel good ...

“Steve was a software genius,” he says. “He is best known for his role in creating GIF, but this was actually one of his lesser accomplishments.” By the time Wilhite came up with ...