[hoomank3]

Definitely a case of prosecutorial overreach. The poor kid felt so hopeless and overwhelmed that he took his own life. Very sad story.

Not commonly known. But Swartz invented JSON. Every time you use it, you can thank him.

[aikah]

Swartz participated in the creation of RSS spec, not JSON AFAIK. He was also involved in the development of reddit.

[leejoramo]

Additionally John Gruber acknowledges Aaron’s significant contribution to the creation of Markdown.

https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

[cocoa19]

Wikipedia says Douglas Crockford specified and popularized JSON.

[branweb]

yeah I've always heard it was Crockford. Do you have a substantiating source you'd mind sharing, op?

[prophesi]

Maybe they're thinking of RSS?