- Lou Montulli
Louis J. Montulli II (best known as Lou Montulli) is a programmer who is well known for his work in producing
web browser s.In 1991 he wrote a text web browser called Lynx while he was at the
University of Kansas . This web browser was one of the first available and is still in use today.In 1994 he became a founding engineer of
Netscape Communications and programmed the networking code for the first versions of the Netscape web browser. He was also responsible for several browser innovations, such asHTTP cookie s, theblink tag , server push and client pull, HTTP proxying, HTTP over SSL, and encouraging the implementation ofanimated GIF s into the browser. While at Netscape, he also was a founding member of the HTMLworking group at theW3C and was a contributing author of the HTML 3.2 specification.In 1998 he became a founding engineer of
Epinions.com [http://www.epinions.com] which is now Shopping.com [http://www.shopping.com] .In 2004 he became co-founder and CEO of Memory Matrix, which was acquired by Shutterfly Inc. [http://www.shutterfly.com/] in May of 2005.
Lou served as Vice President of Client Engineering at Shutterfly through the summer of 2007. He is now "spending time with [his] family and researching a new company idea." [cite web|url=http://www.montulli.org/lou|title=Lou Montulli's Personal Web Page|author=Lou Montulli|accessdate=2008-03-31]
See also
* List of famous programmers
*Shutterfly References
* [http://www.montulli.org/lou Lou Montulli's Personal Web Page ]
* [http://www.dominopower.com/issues/issue200207/cookie001.html Where cookies come from] from DominoPower Magazine.
* [http://www.vlib.us/hnsourcehistory.html HNSource History] Montulli's first conversion to HTML page for WWW-VL
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
