Month: March 2022

Wilhite was working at CompuServe in 1987 when he invented the GIF. “I saw the format I wanted in my head and then I started programming,” he told The New York Times in 2013, saying the first image was an airplane and insisting that the file had only one pronunciation – a soft “G,” like Jif peanut butter. Those using the hard “G,” as in “got” or “given,” “are wrong,” he said. “End of story.”

Stephen Wilhite, inventor of the meme-favorite GIF, has died

Keeping this one around – from the article:

All I remember feeling was, I GOTTA FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT. NO ONE IS COMING TO SAVE ME.

How on earth I became an entrepreneur

I wrote a small Kurzweil PC4 multi calculator that generates MIDI hex strings for unrealBook. Useful for quickly finding the MIDI strings necessary to change multis.

https://aronnelson.com/kurzweilcalc/#/

Thanks to Kurzweil for making such great keyboards and for providing the necessary information:

Selecting Programs via MIDI