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Teen Is Co-Creator of Firefox Browser

Posted by geeknews at 11:46 AM on January 24, 2005

Yahoo! News – Teen Is Co-Creator of Firefox BrowserBlakeross

 By age 10, Blake Ross was designing Web pages on America Online. By 14, after mastering complex programming languages such as C++, he was fixing bugs in Netscape’s Web browser from home, a hobby that landed him a job offer. “What, at the local store or something?” David Ross remembered thinking when his son told him. No, at Netscape Communications Corp.

Ross, now 19, a sophomore computer science major at Stanford University, has an even more impressive resume than most of his peers. Before graduating high school, he helped develop Firefox.

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2 Comments

  1. From The Tech Center at 2:47 pm on January 24, 2005

    Tech Teen helps develop Firefox

    This kid reminds me of myself, except I bet my paychecks aren’t as close as his. My problem? I hated Netscape and AOL I just wanted to hack them. :-)
    “By age 10, Blake Ross was designing Web pages on America Online. By 14, after mastering comp…

  2. From Stefan Koopmanschap / Weblog at 4:21 am on January 25, 2005

    Blake Ross interview

    Yahoo! brengt een leuk artikel/interview met Blake Ross, de nu 19-jarige ontwikkelaar van Firefox die sinds zijn 14e al voor Netscape werkt. (via)