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		chubot on April 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Who built XMLHttpRequest at Microsoft in 1... Crockford has said that people were using JSON before he "discovered" it. That's why he says he discovered rather than invented it. Unfortunately I don't remember who those people were, but anyone who used XmlHttpRequest, which was apparently there in the 90's, could have used it.

rsl7 on April 29, 2013 [–]

I made up and used something similar to JSON in 1996. It's not difficult to think up if you're trying to find the simplest possible text-based hierarchical data format. There were a lot of variations on this idea.

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