Somewhere on a 3.5" floppy in a box somewhere in my basement is a copy of an example of the then new gif89a format. It shows off various features like text layers. If I remember correctly, it contains a picture of Stephen Wilhite, and he does express his preferred pronunciation. I wasn’t able to find it after several failed searches, and I’m not about to go digging through my basement.
…and I found it, but it’s not as I remember it:
This is a picture of Bob Barry, the author of Compushow. The above image will likely not render correctly because most browsers don’t support all of the gif89a features. Here’s an animated approximation of how it would have looked in a compliant viewer.
Original gif taken from here.
Animated version taken from here.
