Lou Montulli - Definition and Overview

Lou Montulli is a programmer who is well known for his work in producing web browsers.

In 1991 he wrote a text web browser called Lynx while he was at the University of Kansas. This web browser was one of the first available and is still in use (as of January 2004).

In 1994 he was hired by 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 cookies, the blink tag, server push and client pull, HTTP proxying, HTTPS over SSL, and encouraging the implementation of animated GIFs into the browser. While at Netscape, he also was a founding member of the HTML working group at the W3C and was a contributing author of the HTML 3.2 specification.

In 1998 he worked as an engineer at Epinions.com [1] (http://www.epinions.com) which is now Shopping.com [2] (http://www.shopping.com).

See also

• List of famous programmers

References

• Lou Montulli's Personal Web Page  (http://www.montulli.com/lou/)
• Where cookies come from (http://www.dominopower.com/issues/issue200207/cookie001.html) from DominoPower Magazine.