This interview was recorded for the event “Heroes of Data & Privacy.”
Speaker
Lou Montulli, Co-founder & CTO at JetInsight, inventor of the web cookie.
Lou Montulli is known for developing foundational web technologies, including the HTTP cookie. He invented the cookie to enable new functionality on the web while protecting user privacy. Contrary to his original intention, the technology was later used to track users across domains.
Montulli joined Netscape as a founding engineer and wrote the networking code for the first versions of the browser. He also invented several other key technologies, including the Blink tag, server push, client pull, and HTTP proxying.
