Lou Montulli

Louis J. Montulli II (better known as Lou Montulli ) is an American programmer best known for his work with web browsers .

Life

In 1991 and 1992 he developed the Lynx browser together with Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac while at the University of Kansas . It was the first web browser and is still in use today.

In 1994 Montulli became one of the first programmers at Netscape Communications and programmed for the first versions of the Netscape browser. As part of his work, he invented numerous technical things that are essential for today's Internet, including HTTP cookies , the blink tag, push media and pull technologies and proxy servers . He also supported the implementation of animated GIFs in browsers. Montulli became a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium's working group on HTML and made numerous contributions to the HTML 3.2 specification.

He is one of only six recruits in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame at the First international conference on the World Wide Web in 1994, alongside Tim Berners-Lee , Marc Andreessen , Eric Bina , Kevin Hughes and Rob Hartill .

In 1998 he joined Epinions.com as a founding developer. In 2004 he became the co-founder and CEO of Memory Matrix, which Shutterfly Inc. acquired in May 2005 . Montulli was Vice President of Client Engineering at Shutterfly until the summer of 2007. In 2008 he co-founded Zetta.net.

Other Projects

While Montulli was working at Netscape, he built a webcam to observe his fish and thus ran one of the first websites with live images. He built this into the first versions of Netscape as an Easter egg . The company hosted Fishcam until it was dissolved, but after a brief hiatus in 2009, it's back online, making it one of the longest-running websites.

Awards

• 2002 MIT Technology Review as one of the TOP 100 inventors under 35 worldwide

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Origins of the <Blink> Tag. Retrieved August 7, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Robert Cailliau : WWW94 Awards. CERN, May 1994, accessed August 7, 2013 . 
3. ^ The World-Wide Web Hall of Fame. Best of the Web Directory , 1994, accessed August 7, 2013 . 
4. ^ Lou Montulli: A Short History of the Fishcam. Retrieved August 7, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Eric Perlman: Wacky Uselessness. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 25, 2010 ; accessed on August 7, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ 2002 Young Innovators Under 35. Technology Review , 2002, accessed August 7, 2013 . 

Web links

• Lou Montulli's Personal Web Page
• Where cookies come from DominoPower Magazine.
• HNSource History Montulli's first conversion to HTML page for WWW-VL
• Fishcam live feed .