I do not claim to have invented JSON. I claim only that I discovered it. It existed in nature. I identified it, gave it a name, and showed how it was useful.
I never claimed to be the first to have discovered JSON. I made my discovery in the spring of 2001. There were other developers who were using it 2000.
The earliest claim that I am aware of for the use of JavaScript literals for data transport was Slava Galperin, then at Netscape, in June 1996.
Crock is a product of our public school system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is now an architect at Yahoo!.
