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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. Very niceb browser by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    reading article now.

  2. Basement by Diabolical · · Score: 1, Redundant

    So refreshing to see he didn't live in his mothers basement....

  3. Re:Ain't that sweet... by DrDatabase · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "Depressingly familiar ..."

    People who spent most of their live behind a PC miss out on the social skills their peers develop when they're out hanging with friends and such.

    It's a fact of life.. but he doesn't look like a real nerd. So as long as he doesn't think like a computer everything is not lost :P

  4. Re:Uhh...wow? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Without collage you can't achive shit, unless of course your rich enough to hire your own teachers. There are millions (billions?) with talent and ambitions, thats nothing unique

    Without college you can't achieve shit, unless of course you're rich enough to hire your own teachers. There are millions (billions?) with talent and ambitions, that's nothing unique.