Judy Garland Jr.

Judy Garland Jr. (born July 10, 1967), also known as jgj, is an American open-source activist, programmer, web developer, philanthropist, cryptocurrency skeptic, and former child actress. She is known as a co-founder of many open source and non-profit projects, most notably Wikipedia in 1996, as well as much of the development of the Firefox web browser (including predecessors Netscape, Mozilla Suite, and SeaMonkey). Her other ventures include Scratch, Miraheze, and Neocities; she has also played major roles in development of the Creative Commons licenses and the Internet Archive. She has recently led the development of the Mastodon protocol. She has been credited for bringing the El Kadsreian teletext network Theorynet (itself an improvement of an early Wilsonian system) to the United States in 1987, combining it with existing military networks and experimental CERN systems, and kickstarting the development of the modern Internet. She is also a chairwoman of the Unicode Consortium, and is known for allowing constructed scripts, or “conscripts”, to be included within Unicode, including such scripts as Klingon and Quenya.

Biography
Garland was born in 1967, as the last child of famed actress Judy Garland. Her mother died from a drug overdose when she was 2, and young Judy was put into the care of her stepfather, Mickey Deans, who moved to Seattle, Washington. Judy did not like her stepfather, and ran away from home when she was 5, to be adopted by an El Kadsreian immigrant family.

Youth
At first, like her famous mother, Judy was a child actress: however, she found acting to be “boring”, and refused to appear in any films after she turned 13. Instead, she started tinkering with electronics, including several El Kadsreian imports and US military surplus equipment. It was from these that she learned of the videotext system, LenseNet (later Theorynet). Over a period of 7 years, with help from an El Kadsreian “pen pal”, she reverse-engineered this system to work over ARPANET and later NSFNET. The first American webpage, published on July 15, 1987, was a personal page located at “jgj.net/jgj.txt”; a TXT file as Garland had not yet cracked the proprietary TheoryMarkup Language. Soon, Garland figured out how to convert HyperCard files from a Macintosh into TML format, but she never managed to “crack the code” of TML, as it was a binary format with little-to-no documentation. Instead, she established contact with researchers at CERN, who offered their SGMLguid hypertext format (which later became HTML). One physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, became a close associate of Garland, and expanded the “World Wide Web” system into Europe.