Mark P. McCahill
Mark P. McCahill (Mark Perry McCahill) | |
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| Born | February 7, 1956 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Programmer/systems architect |
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| Known for | Inventing the Gopher protocol, the predecessor of the World Wide Web; developing and popularizing a number of other Internet technologies |
Mark Perry McCahill (born February 7, 1956) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He has developed and popularized a number of Internet technologies since the late 1980s, including the Gopher protocol, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and POPmail.