Actually that's not the most amazing part. They didn't want to let him onto the RDF working group, so Aaron hacked the W3C process at the age of 14.
> The rules said that while they could reject any requests to join from an individual, if an organization that was an official member of the W3C asked to put someone on the working group, they couldn't say no. So I looked down the list of W3C member organizations, found the one that seemed friendliest, and asked them to put me on the Working Group. They did.
meh. That's just circumventing bureaucracy. Actually having the technical chops to be involved in such a notable standards process is far more impressive. Especially at 14.
While I agree, most teens who are rebellious do things like stay out way too late or get involved with that bad person that their parents warned them about, rather than not taking "no" for an answer and going on to create great things. It's still pretty commendable.
