Rob Hartill

Robert Hartill (born 30 January 1969 in Pontypridd, Wales) is a computer programmer and web designer who created the first web-based version of the Internet Movie Database and worked on the Apache web server, for which he shared the 1999 ACM Software System Award with his fellow Apache Group founders. He played a key role in the early growth of the World Wide Web and, from 1994 onward, worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory on the arXiv.org preprint server alongside Paul Ginsparg. In 1994 he was one of six inaugural inductees into the World Wide Web Hall of Fame, announced at the first international World Wide Web conference.