ViolaWWW Creator, Perry Wei.

About the Creator of Viola, Perry Wei.
Not alot of information is known about Perry Wei, but we were able to pull some data from an interview over the Phone.
At the University of California, Berkeley, you did something that made you a part of the history of the Web: you created one of the first browsers. How did that happen?
Perry: I got started in computing because of video games. In junior high, there were these Commodore PET computers. To me, they were like magic, and I started thinking about making games for them. I got some books and made my own version of Frogger, the arcade game. The game got me a creative award, and I got to shake hands with the Berkeley mayor. I was just 15. When I got to college, I wanted to keep messing with computers, and I got interested in languages and graphics. I was especially interested in making it easier for people to create new applications. On campus, there's a group called the eXperimental Computing Facility, where computer science-minded students hang out. When I was there, half the kids in that group were not computer science majors, but people interested in doing their own projects--for fun, not for academic credit. I was one of them. I wanted to work on a project that was part language, part toolkit, which you could use to make more programs. They gave me an account, and I started working on this thing called Viola-Visually Interactive Object-oriented Language Application.

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Perry Wei Circa. 2009-2011