See the complete profile on linkedin and discover lous connections. We use cookies to deliver the best possible experience on our website. Wrote the textbased lynx browser for unix, back in 1991. Putting faces to names, learning the backstories of inventions, and discovering wrinkles that never made it into the history books. Here, he covers how to create that environment and why engineers must lead the way. Blink was a secret html markup tag hidden in netscapes web. For those of you who are relatively new to the web, the tag is an html command that causes text to blink, and many, many people find its. Lou montulli was one of the first people to work on the netscape web browser, which gave birth to many of the venerable and likely deprecated web standards some of us grew up with. The inventor of the blink tag, lou montulli, has said repeatedly in interviews that he considers the blink tag to be the worst thing ive ever done for the internet. The tag achieved notoriety for being userunfriendly in the opinion of many designers. Years ago, i emailed lou montulli about the advisability of my getting a blink tattoo and he replied in part that one of these days ill get around to writing the true history of the blink tag. I dropped lou an email asking him for the real story. Blinking with lou montulli the original design of the world wide web did not have.
Lou montulli, inventor of the web browser cookie image details keywords. The web browser youre probably using to read this article is a small marvel of engineering. Now its inventor lou montulli has come forward to take responsibility, and to explain why blink was never supposed to exist. Select this result to view lou a montulli iis phone number, address, and more. When text was added inside of a blink element, the text itself would flash or blink in a loop. And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. He is also the author of lynx a text web browser that preceded the graphical browsers in use today. It seems that it was a lament for the lack of features in textbased browsers. Louis montulli t, 79 vista, ca has court or arrest. Other names that louis uses includes louis t montueli, louis t montull, louis t ret and louis t montulli.
Louis, missouri, a 31building complex that was praised as a centerpiece of the citys urban renewal of the 1950s and 1960s before becoming notorious as a segregated community prone to violence. The html tags everybody hated the history of the web. In 1992 he coauthored lynx, a textbased web browser, with michael grobe and charles rezac while at the university of kansas. Lou piniella a life in baseball hardcover march 1, 2009. The true origins of, the most hated html tag in history youve probably seen blinking text on the internet, then clutched your head and wondered why your elders ever invented such an affront to. This web browser was one of the first available and is still in use today. Lou montulli phone, address, background info whitepages. While bert bos of the world wide web consortium has produced a document type definition that includes syntax for the blink element defining it as a phrase element on a par with elements for emphasis and citations, the comments in the dtd explain that it is intended as a joke.
The life story of one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. Japanese architect minoru yamasaki, most famous for designing the twin towers of the original world trade center reflected poorly on his design for the infamous pruittigoe housing development in st. I learned a lot about lou piniella including his close friendship with thurman munson, captain and catcher of the new york yankees until his plane crashed and he died in 1979. Montulli is widely credited as being the instigator behind one of the webs first easter eggs. The blink element is nonstandard, and as such there is no authoritative specification of its syntax or semantics. Lou est une petite fille qui ne connait pas son more. When mozilla released firefox 23 on tuesday, the updated browser put an unofficial end to one of the annoyances of the early webthe blin. Lou montulli project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. The lynx browser was a textbased browser for terminals and for computers that used dos without windows. Also wunderkind jwz did the linux implementation but he did resist until the demands for it became overwhelming.
If you dont recognize the name, thats because the company would eventually change its name to netscape communications corporation when the university of illinois which owned the trademark on the name mosaic threatened legal action. Chapter 1, supplemental 1 an interview with lou montulli. Unlike the blink tag, when text was placed in a marquee tag it would. Note this was written by lou montulli who also wrote the amusing post about the origins of the blink tag 1. Ch 1 int 1 mosaic and netscape founding developer lou. In 1991 and 1992, he coauthored a text web browser called lynx, with michael grobe and charles rezac, while he was at the university of kansas. Lou lou the front row center series book 1 kindle edition by sadie lydon author 5.
Whats deeply amusing or unfortunate depending on who you ask is that the scourge that is the blink tag came into existence entirely as a silly browser easter egg conceived after a night of drinking. It can be broken down into many discrete partsa url bar, a. Lou montulli changed that and the world has never been the same. Blinking with lou montulli peter adams photography blog.
In 1992 he coauthored lynx, a textbased web browser, with michael grobe and charles rezac while at the. Montulli created the browser cookie, which provides a way for websites to identify users across visits. Lou montulli was one of the first people to write a textbased browser, lynx. Just before they left, they got in contact with lou montulli, the creator of the browser lynx and later credited with the blink tag, who was in a different state at the time. The blink tag is finally dead, killed off by firefox 23 pcworld. Lou is related to ashley kelley montulli and kathy anne clark. Firefox drops support for the blink tag metafilter. Back in the days when i still lived in the netherlands, hardcore gabber house music started appearing. The rewards of creatordriven cultures and the engineers. Lou montulli, a former engineer with netscape, writes about the origins of the blink tag.
I am widely credited as the inventor of the blink tag. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Lou montulli, an early and influential web browser programmer, explains the origin of the blink tag on his personal website. Told in an honest and straight forward manner, lou thesz talks indepth about being a legitimate wrestler skilled in submissions hooks, hence the title of the book, in a prearranged exhibition world. The significance of lou montulli were his innovations to the internet such as cookies which we use on a day to day basis. Louis montulli s birthday is 11121940 and is 79 years old. Back in 1994 i was a founding engineer at netscape, prior to that i had written the lynx browser, which predated all of the other popular browsers at that time. Its inventor was lou montulli, who wrote a blog post in 2009 that explained why he had created something so weird and annoying, as well as an apologizing for it. It seems that blink is having a resurgence in 20, i guess its old enough now to be retro cool. It was pointed at a pod of exotic fish in a 90gallon, fluorescentlit acrylic tank. They have also lived in reno, nv and lawrence, ks plus 2 other locations. I wont deny the invention, but there is a bit more to the story than is widely known. Aug 06, 20 lou montulli, who contends that he is the inventor the blink tag, claimed that the whole thing was a thought experiment.
For those of you who are relatively new to the web, the blink tag is an html command that causes text to blink, and many, many people find its behavior to be extremely annoying. Blinking with lou montulli the original design of the world wide web did not have cookies or the blinking text. It was 20 years ago today on april 4th, 1994, mosaic communications corporation was officially incorporated as a going concern. So then comes one night, when netscape engineer lou montulli was out. The latest version of firefox has deprecated old markup that once powered the famous flashing under construction banner youd see on everyones. But the next day when montulli came into work, he found that someone had, in fact, implemented his blinking text feature. Tom slee has an announcement to make crooked timber. Skinny and smart, he endured so many pummelings from neighborhood kids that my glasses were always broken, he says. Lou montulli, often credited as the inventor of the blink element, has said that he considers the blink tag to be the worst thing ive ever done for the internet. Montulli ii is a programmer who is well known for his work in producing web browsers. The element was introduced in netscape navigator but is no longer supported and often ignored by modern web browsers. Jul 07, 2015 montulli also came up with the idea for the blink html tag, is one of only six inductees of the worldwide web hall of fame, and created the amazing fishcam, a webcam feed of a fish tank in the. This is a selfishly dedicated site to finding information about people whose last name is montulli.
Lou montulli is a computer programmer best known for his work on web browsers. In 1991 and 1992 he coauthored a text web browser called lynx with michael grobe and charles rezac while he was at the university of kansas. View lou montulli s profile on angellist, the startup and tech network entrepreneur silicon valley web pioneer loves to build things bad poker player skier entrepreneur and. Sep 11, 2017 the following week, in midapril, andreessen and clark hopped a plane headed for illinois. Montulli ii best known as lou montulli is a programmer who is well known for his work in producing web browsers. Previously cities included solana beach ca, west babylon ny and east islip ny. One of his colleagues had transformed his idea into a new html tag, the blink tag. Lou montulli made the blink, but only you can make it stink. Back in 1994 i was a founding engineer at netscape, prior to that i had written the lynx browser, which predated all of. We came up with kind of a funny thing and then it was introduced by the other engineers as an easter egg, a functional easter egg. Lou montulli has 382 books on goodreads, and is currently reading the lost colony by a. Lou montulli, inventor of the web browser cookie and instigator of the blink html tag. The evolution of the web, in a blink the new yorker.
Its 2015 youd think wed have figured out how to measure. On the 20th anniversary an oral history of netscapes. Announcing the newest addition to apple support communities, apple arcade. View lou montullis profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Lou montulli is the jerk programmer i keed, i keed who invented the blink tag. The blink tag is finally dead, killed off by firefox 23. Aug 28, 2017 but the next day when montulli came into work, he found that someone had, in fact, implemented his blinking text feature. Possibly deleted posts and books that are too long for. In this candid, revealing, and entertaining memoir, the beloved new york yankee legend looks back over his nearly fiftyyear career as a player and a manager, sharing insights and stories about some of his most memorable moments and some of the biggest names in major league baseball.
Apart from cookies and the blink tag, lou also wrote lynx which was one of the first internet browsers. April 2, 2018 october 5, 2018 3 minute read by peter. Yet montulli laughs when i ask the obvious question. I am excited to announce that i am finally ready to write my next book. Intrigued by the offer, montulli almost immediately turned around and took a plane to. The best result we found for your search is lou a montulli ii age 40s in truckee, ca in the martiswoods estates neighborhood. I checked, blink works in firefox, but not in mobile safari. Lou montulli, who contends that he is the inventor the blink tag, claimed that the whole thing was a thought experiment. Blink is far from the first browser engine to emerge from the shell of another. Montulli, who wrote the lynx browser, went on to be one of the. The blink element is a nonstandard html element that indicates to a user agent generally a web browser that the page author intends the content of the element to blink that is, alternate between being visible and invisible.
Its about the internet and how its changing the world. For those of you who are too young to remember it, this was a nonstandard html element that saw all of the onscreen text that was enclosed within it slowly blink. I borrowed this book from the akronsummit county public library after discovering it on a bibliography of the book munson. From the earliest web browsers to cookies, jetinsight cofounder and cto lou montulli developed some of his most pivotal and enduring work in creatordriven cultures. The true origins of, the most hated html tag in history io9. Lou is responsible for innovations such as web proxying, the blink tag, and the incorporation of animated gifs into the web browser. Montulli is as much of a code monster as they come. Programmer known for his work in producing web browsers.
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