RIP Aaron, you were a visionary and a great guy. Humankind has lost a great person.

Swartz was nothing short of a prodigy: at the age of 14, he helped develop the Real Simple Syndication (RSS) standard.

He founded Infogami, which was eventually incorporated into Reddit.

He founded Demand Progress, a digital rights group that played an instrumental role in defeating the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) early last year.