[LINK] Who was Aaron Swartz

[Jan Whitaker]

Great article on Aaron Swartz in Slate
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/02/aaron_swartz_he_wanted_to_save_the_world_why_couldn_t_he_save_himself.single.html
Includes a picture of him with a young Lawrence Lessig.

Embedded in it are links to some of his inventions during his teen 
years, including a public editable encyclopedia pre-dating Wikipedia 
called The Info Network which is archived in the Wayback Machine.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010922161150/http:/www.theinfo.org/

There is even an article by "prue" about Australia on the World page, 
along with Canada, Italy, Bahrain and how to backpack.
It reads like a high school project, so don't expect too much 
advanced content. I just thought it was cool that he had actually 
done this at age 13.


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