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Aaron Swartz obituary | Technology | The Guardian

At the age of 14 Swartz was collaborating with experts in networking standards as a member of the working group that authored the RSS 1.0 specification

Through the Y Combinator program, Swartz started the wiki platform Infogami (later used to support the web.py and Open Library sites), but felt he needed co-founders to proceed. Y-Combinator organizers suggested that Infogami merge with Reddit which it did in November 2005. While Reddit initially found it difficult to make money from the project, the site later gained in popularity, with millions of users visiting it each month..

Suicide by hanging :(

R.I.P (1986-2013)
 

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Man that's terrible prayer goes out to his family.

RIP
 
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Who's Aaron Schwartz?

You've never heard of Reddit?

He was one of the uh...for lack of a better word brains, behind it.

And you already know what RSS is.
 
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Reddit?

Can't say I've heard of it.

Let me interpret it through my perspective. There is no such thing called "Press" in my country, instead the constitution refers to "Every citizen of the country has right to freedom of speech and expression, with democracy being a pre requisite for freedom of speech." In "Reddit" users post content, just like on a forum, and other members rate said content with a like or dislike and the most liked/commented on topics get prominence on the site.

It's kind of like a newspaper forum. On the internet. (And it's marketed as "The front page of the internet.")

http://www.freewebsitereport.org/www.reddit.com
 

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Yeah, this was all over Reddit yesterday. My thoughts go out to his family and friends.
 

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Never heard oh him either.

RIP