David Karp presents Steve Wilhite with the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 17th Annual Webbys
Why the open web links it
Steve Wilhite, inventor of the GIF, accepts a lifetime achievement award and settles the pronunciation debate.
Linked by 13 independent sites, 5 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including hootsuite.com, kqed.org, techbang.com, webbyawards.com, utherverse.com.