Who created JSON and when was the first message sent?
Douglas Crockford sent the first JSON message in April 2001. He and Chip Morningstar created this format at State Software, a company they cofounded that March.
Questions about JSON
Short answers, pulled from the story.
When did Ecma International publish the first edition of ECMA-404?
Ecma International published the first edition of ECMA-404 in October 2013. This marked the formal standardization of the format after years of informal use.
What characters are allowed as whitespace in JSON syntax?
Four specific characters count as whitespace including space, horizontal tab, line feed, and carriage return. Whitespace is ignored around syntactic elements but never within string values.
Why were comments intentionally excluded from the original JSON specification?
Douglas Crockford removed them because people used them to hold parsing directives. He believed this practice would destroy interoperability between systems.
Which organization released RFC 8259 on the 13th of December 2017?
The Internet Engineering Task Force released RFC 8259 on the 13th of December 2017. That document became the current version of Internet Standard STD 90.
How does YAML version 1.2 differ from JSON regarding comments?
YAML supports comments while JSON does not. Escaping slashes differently creates validity issues between formats.