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Meet The Co-Creator of Firefox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the learning-more-about-it dept.

Jay Langhurst writes "Learn more about the roots of Firefox and about the 19-year-old who co-created the browser in this article. 'To take an internship at Netscape during the summer of 2001, Ross moved with his mother to a rented apartment near Netscape's offices in Mountain View, Calif. She drove him to work each morning.'"

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  1. Ain't that sweet... by ravenspear · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least we know he's a real geek.

    1. Re:Ain't that sweet... by spellraiser · · Score: 4, Funny
      Real geek alright:

      And have his appearances in major newspapers posted on his eponymous Web site helped with those California girls at school?

      "They're the ones that aren't impressed at all," he said with a laugh.

      Depressingly familiar ...

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  2. Is it a two-floor apartment? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    ' Ross moved with his mother to a rented apartment '

    Is the apartment two-floors, so he can still be in mom's basement?

  3. Re:Meet him? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    admit it, you're not even a chick

  4. Not only that. by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny
    "On another note, I wonder how the IE team feels knowing that an intern who had to share an apartment with his mom and have her drive him to work basically outperformed their entire team"

    Studies have shown that a million monkeys, banging on a million typewriters, will produce Microsoft-standards-compliant IE releases on an average of once every 6 minutes.

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  5. Re:Meet him? by Chicane-UK · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow - so Michael Jackson does post on Slashdot!

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  6. Re:Uhh...wow? by dapyx · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, no. That should be: 1) Download Mozilla code and modify it a bit
    2) Change the name
    3) Change the name
    4) Change the name
    5) ???
    6) Profit!!!

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  7. Wired Mag Feb '05 cover - "The Firefox Explosion" by cyranoVR · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wired Magazine prominently features Blake Ross on the cover of their Feb '05 issue for their lead story, "The Firefox Explosion."

    Wired Mag doesn't have the cover online yet, meaning I probably got it from a newstand that put it out early (the 34th St PATH Station newstand in NYC, for those interested).

    The issue also features an "interesting" piece: a fake memo from the future...written to one Bill Gates from newly-hired employee Linus Torvalds - concerning Winux, Microsoft's next-generation OS.

    [Apparently, Bill's "pitch" to Linus in this post-apocalyptic future was "come on Linus...infect the Mothership ;^)" ]

    Anyway, I hate to sound like a pitchman for Wired, but it's worth the look.