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{{Short description|American computer programmer}}
'''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 and 1992, he co-authored a text web browser called [[Lynx (web browser)|Lynx]], with Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac, while he was at the [[University of Kansas]]. This web browser was one of the first available and is still in use today.▼
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▲'''Louis J. Montulli II''' (best known as '''Lou Montulli''') is a computer programmer who is well known for his work in producing [[web browser]]s. In 1991 and 1992, he co-authored a text web browser called [[Lynx (web browser)|Lynx]], with Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac, while he was at the [[University of Kansas]].<ref>Grobe, Michael. (April 10, 1997) [https://web.archive.org/web/20230108194217/http://people.cc.ku.edu/~grobe/early-lynx.html ''An Early History of Lynx: Multidimensional Collaboration'']. Retrieved Jan. 8, 2023.</ref> This web browser was one of the first available and is still in use today.
==Career==
In 1994, he became a founding engineer of [[Netscape|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 as [[HTTP cookie]]s, the [[blink element]], [[Push technology|server push]] and [[Pull technology|client pull]], [[Proxy server|HTTP proxying]], and encouraging the implementation of [[GIF#Animated GIF|animated GIFs]] into the browser. While at Netscape, he also was a founding member of the HTML [[working group]] at the [[World Wide Web Consortium|W3C]] and was a contributing author of the HTML 3.2 specification. He is one of only six inductees in the [[First International Conference on the World-Wide Web#World Wide Web Hall of Fame Inductees|World Wide Web Hall of Fame]] announced at the [[First International Conference on the World-Wide Web]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www94.web.cern.ch/WWW94/Awards0529.html |title=WWW94 Awards |author=
In 1998, he became a founding engineer of [[Epinions]] which is now a [[Shopping.com]] company.{{
In 2002, he was named to the [[MIT Technology Review]] [[TR35|TR100]] as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=2002 |title=2002 Young Innovators Under 35 |publisher=[[Technology Review]] | year=2002 | accessdate=August 16, 2011}}</ref>
In 2004, he became co-founder and CEO of Memory Matrix, which was acquired by [[Shutterfly|Shutterfly Inc.]] in May 2005. Montulli served as Vice President of Client Engineering at Shutterfly through the summer of 2007.{{
In 2008, he became co-founder of [[Zetta.net]], a cloud storage company.{{
In 2015, he joined [[JetInsight]] as co-founder and CTO.{{
In 2022, he was recognized among Hidden Heroes for his significant technology contribution, including the [[HTTP cookie]] and [[Lynx (web browser)|Lynx]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hiddenheroes.netguru.com/lou-montulli |title=The Magic Cookie: How Lou Montulli Cured the Web's Amnesia |author=Steven Johnson |author-link=Steven Johnson (author) |publisher=[[Netguru]] | year=2022 | accessdate=August 17, 2022}}</ref>
==Ongoing projects==
While working on the Netscape browser, Montulli built the [[Fishcam]], one of the earliest [[Live broadcast|live]] image websites<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fishcam.com/history.html|title=A Short History of the Fishcam|author=Lou Montulli|accessdate=2009-02-20}}</ref> (ie. live as in broadcasting), famously built into early versions of the Netscape browser as the Fishcam [[Easter egg (media)|Easter egg]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yikes.com/netscape/etc.html|title=Wacky Uselessness|author=Eric Perlman|accessdate=2009-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125091238/http://www.yikes.com/netscape/etc.html|archive-date=2010-11-25|url-status=dead}}</ref> The company Netscape hosted this fishcam until long after they were no longer Netscape. After a short hiatus, in 2009 it found a new host; it is still one of the longest (nearly) continuously running live websites.{{
==See also==
* [[List of
==References==
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==External links==
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▲* [http://www.dominopower.com/issues/issue200207/cookie001.html Where cookies come from - DominoPower Magazine.]
* [http://www.vlib.us/hnsourcehistory.html HNSource History] Montulli's first conversion to HTML page for WWW-VL
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