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		aikah on Oct 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz ... Swartz participated in the creation of RSS spec, not JSON AFAIK. He was also involved in the development of reddit.

leejoramo on Oct 4, 2020 [–]

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

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

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