Lou Montulli

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

Life

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

1994 Mont Ulli was one of the first programmers at Netscape Communications and programmed for the first versions of the Netscape browser. He has invented numerous technical things in the context of his work, which are essential for today's Internet, including HTTP cookies, the blink tag, push- pull media and technologies and proxy servers. He also supported the implementation of Animated GIFs in browsers. Mont Ulli became a founding member of the working group on the World Wide Web Consortium HTML and provided numerous contributions to the HTML 3.2 specification.

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

In 1998 he was a founding developer to Epinions.com. In 2004 he was co-founder and CEO of Memory Matrix, which was bought in May 2005 by Shutterfly Inc.. Mont Ulli was until the summer of 2007 Vice President of Client Engineering at Shutterfly. In 2008 he was co-founder of Zetta.net.

Other projects

While Montulli worked at Nescape he built a webcam to monitor its fish factory and are thus one of the first web pages with live images. This he built as an Easter Egg in the first versions of Netscape. The company hosted the Fishcam with its dissolution, but after a brief interruption in 2009, she is back online, and thus one of the sites with the longest history.

Awards

• 2002, MIT Technology Review as one of the Top 100 worldwide inventor under 35 years