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A comment on The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) [video].

Re:The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) ... by hoomank3 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @12:25PM (#24680185)
Definitely a case of prosecutorial overreach. The poor kid felt so hopeless and overwhelmed that he took his own life. Very sad story.

Not commonly known. But Swartz invented JSON. Every time you use it, you can thank him.

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Re:The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) ... by aikah on Sunday October 04, 2020 @01:44PM (#24680792)
Swartz participated in the creation of RSS spec, not JSON AFAIK. He was also involved in the development of reddit.
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Re:The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) ... by leejoramo on Sunday October 04, 2020 @05:25PM (#24682364)
Additionally John Gruber acknowledges Aaron’s significant contribution to the creation of Markdown.

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

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Re:The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) ... by cocoa19 on Sunday October 04, 2020 @12:33PM (#24680244)
Wikipedia says Douglas Crockford specified and popularized JSON.
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Re:The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) ... by branweb on Sunday October 04, 2020 @12:51PM (#24680417)
yeah I've always heard it was Crockford. Do you have a substantiating source you'd mind sharing, op?
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Re:The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) ... by prophesi on Sunday October 04, 2020 @12:59PM (#24680472)
Maybe they're thinking of RSS?
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