Wikipedia says Douglas Crockford specified and popularized JSON. | Hacker News

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		cocoa19 on Oct 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz ... Wikipedia says Douglas Crockford specified and popularized JSON.

branweb on Oct 4, 2020 [–]

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

prophesi on Oct 4, 2020 | [–]

Maybe they're thinking of RSS?

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