On This Day
1894 – Coxey’s Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
Coxey’s Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey. They marched on Washington, D.C. in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time. Officially named the Army of the Commonwealth in Christ, its nickname came from its leader and was more enduring. It was the first significant popular protest march on Washington, and the expression “Enough food to feed Coxey’s Army” originates from this march.
Born On This Day
1745 – John Barry, American naval officer and father of the American navy (d. 1803)
John Barry (March 25, 1745 – September 13, 1803) was an Irish-American officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and later in the United States Navy. He has been credited as “The Father of the American Navy” (and shares that moniker with John Paul Jones and John Adams)[1] and was appointed a captain in the Continental Navy on December 7, 1775.[2] He was the first captain placed in command of a U.S. warship commissioned for service under the Continental flag.[3]
After the war, he became the first commissioned U.S. naval officer, at the rank of commodore, receiving his commission from President George Washington in 1797.
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The Hustle: The enormous impact of Stephen Wilhite, inventor of the GIF The man behind the looping graphics synonymous with internet culture passed away this week.
Stephen Earl Wilhite[2] (March 3, 1948 – March 14, 2022)was an American computer scientist who worked at CompuServe and was the Engineering Lead on the team that adapted the GIF image file format from the earlier Unisys-owned LZW algorithm. GIF went on to become the de facto standard for 8-bit color images on the Internet until PNG became a viable alternative.[3] Known as the inventor or creator of the GIF, he received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.[4]
Biography
Wilhite was born in West Chester Township, Ohio, on March 4, 1948.[5][6] Wilhite’s team at CompuServe developed the GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) in 1987. Its adoption by the earliest web browser in 1991[7] helped make it a few years later in 1995 the most popular image file format.[8] Twenty years later in 2016, the format still had mainstream use in website design, social media posts, workflow documents and how-to guides.[9][10]
Wilhite remained a CompuServe/AOL employee into the first decade of the 21st century, working on a variety of CompuServe systems. These included CompuServe’s wire protocols, such as Host Micro Interface (HMI) and CompuServe B protocol for the CompuServe Information Manager (CIM); new service features in the early 1990s; Web chat software in the late 1990s; and investigating Web community models until his 2001 departure after suffering a stroke.[4]
Wilhite’s name comes up frequently in debate[11] over the pronunciation of the GIF acronym.[4] “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Wilhite said. “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G’, pronounced ‘jif’. End of story.”[4] The intended pronunciation deliberately echoes the American peanut butter brand Jif.[12]
Wilhite died of COVID-19 at a hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio,[13] on March 14, 2022, at the age of 74.[14][11][5]
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