Meet The Co-Creator of Firefox

Jay Langhurst writes "Learn more about the roots of Firefox and about the 19-year-old who co-created the browser in this article. 'To take an internship at Netscape during the summer of 2001, Ross moved with his mother to a rented apartment near Netscape's offices in Mountain View, Calif. She drove him to work each morning.'"

Ain't that sweet...

[ravenspear]

At least we know he's a real geek.

Is it a two-floor apartment?

[Anonymous Coward]

' Ross moved with his mother to a rented apartment '

Is the apartment two-floors, so he can still be in mom's basement?

Meet him?

[Anonymous Coward]

I want to hug him, kiss him, have his children....

No wanking for me!

[Anonymous Coward]

I want FireFox for Amiga.

Re:Ain't that sweet...

[spellraiser]

Real geek alright:

And have his appearances in major newspapers posted on his eponymous Web site helped with those California girls at school?

"They're the ones that aren't impressed at all," he said with a laugh.

Depressingly familiar ...

Re:Meet him?

[Anonymous Coward]

admit it, you're not even a chick

...who co-created the browser in this article?

[Anonymous Coward]

How the hell did he do THAT??

Re:No wanking for me!

[Anonymous Coward]

Digging up coffins just to put a copy of FireFox in them is not worth the effort.

Not only that.

[AtariAmarok]

"On another note, I wonder how the IE team feels knowing that an intern who had to share an apartment with his mom and have her drive him to work basically outperformed their entire team"

Studies have shown that a million monkeys, banging on a million typewriters, will produce Microsoft-standards-compliant IE releases on an average of once every 6 minutes.

Exact quote:

[AtariAmarok]

"I'll bet Al Gore will claim it's his sun!"

Here is what he did say: "During my years on the stellar construction advisory board, I was involved in a lot of initiatives. Not only did I create the sun, I created the moon and planets and a pair of really swell comets."

Re:Meet him?

[Chicane-UK]

Wow - so Michael Jackson does post on Slashdot!

Re:Uhh...wow?

[dapyx]

No, no. That should be: 1) Download Mozilla code and modify it a bit
2) Change the name
3) Change the name
4) Change the name
5) ???
6) Profit!!!

Re:Not only that.

[hcdejong]

So that's where all my code monkeys went. Microsoft hired them.

Re:Hail Hercules! Zero to Hero.

[trelie]

It's "Geek Mythology" not "Greek Mythology".

Wired Mag Feb '05 cover - "The Firefox Explosion"

[cyranoVR]

Wired Magazine prominently features Blake Ross on the cover of their Feb '05 issue for their lead story, "The Firefox Explosion."

Wired Mag doesn't have the cover online yet [wired.com], meaning I probably got it from a newstand that put it out early (the 34th St PATH Station newstand in NYC, for those interested).

The issue also features an "interesting" piece: a fake memo from the future...written to one Bill Gates from newly-hired employee Linus Torvalds - concerning Winux, Microsoft's next-generation OS.

[Apparently, Bill's "pitch" to Linus in this post-apocalyptic future was "come on Linus...infect the Mothership ;^)" ]

Anyway, I hate to sound like a pitchman for Wired, but it's worth the look.

Re:In Korea

[quigonn]

And in Soviet Russia, you drive your mum to work.

Re:Is it a two-floor apartment?

[contagious_d]

Yeah. Here in the deep south people live on their mother's carports. For those of you who have those newfangled garage things, a carport is a large covered patio area with a garage door, a pickup truck, several broken lawnmowers, some cats, and the occasional pale mildewed dork.

Re:Uhh...wow?

[StevenHenderson]

From your sig:

You may disagree with me, but you have to acknowledge the existance of my highly educated opinion

Hard to acknowledge your highly educated opinion when you spell "existence" wrong...

Re:Not only that.

[Loren_Burlingame]

Shut up Weaton

A Warning

[RodRandom]

I hope this kid takes a warning from Chairman Bill and passes up the opportunity to pose for kittenish pix in teen mags.

In australia

[Hosting Geek]

You and your mum don't even work.