There was a guy and I was enjoying his blog posts a lot recently. Then I dig internet with his name and every other minute passed, I was getting much amazed.

And he was just 3 years older than I am. He did some amazing stuff like:

  • Co-founded Reddit – millions of people visit every day
  • Contributed to RSS 1.0 spec when he was 14 – millions of people still use it every day
  • Co-authored Markdown syntax – which I’m using right now to write this blog post
  • Member of W3C RDF Group – worked with TimBL
  • Authored web.py – open source Python web framework
  • Internet activist for SOPA/PIPA censorship bills

That is hell of a contribution to humanity. Then I just said myself

I’m not even one thirds of this guy and I wonder if I’ll be so three years later.

This guy is not with us anymore and will be missed.

RIP Aaron Swartz.