Founder of RSS Reader
RSS stands for Rich Site Summary
Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an
American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet
activist. Swartz was involved in the development of the web feed format
RSS,
the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py and the
social news site Reddit. In 2013, he was inducted into the Internet
Hall of Fame.
On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by MIT police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after systematically downloading academic journal articles from JSTOR
