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.”
Month: March 2022
Interesting article
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.
PC4 Multi Calculator – calculate MIDI strings
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: