Aaron Swartz
American computer programmer and writer
Born on: November 8, 1986Died on: January 11, 2013
Aged: 26 years 64 days (314 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
Birth Sign: Scorpio
Aaron Hillel Swartz, also known as AaronSw, was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. As a programmer, Swartz helped develop the web feed format RSS; the technical architecture for Creative Commons, an organization dedicated to creating copyright licenses; and the Python website framework web.py.
Swartz helped define the syntax of the lightweight markup language format Markdown, and was a co-owner of the social news aggregation website Reddit and contributed to its development until he left the company in 2007.
He is often credited as a martyr and a prodigy, and much of his work focused on civic awareness and progressive activism.
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