# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-p-mccahill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:34:42.444Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-p-mccahill"
name: "Mark P. McCahill"
slug: "mark-p-mccahill"
description: "Mark Perry McCahill is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He has developed and popularized a number of Internet technologies since the late 1980s, including the Gopher protocol, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and POPmail."
tagline: "American internet pioneer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_McCahill_in_2006_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1956-02-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.53
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.476386666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 247
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmccahill/"
    handle:    "markmccahill"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_P._McCahill"
    title: "Mark P. McCahill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_P._McCahill"
    title: "Mark P. McCahill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_P._McCahill"
    title: "Mark P. McCahill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A6%AC%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E9%BA%A5%E5%8D%A1%E5%B8%8C%E7%88%BE"
    title: "馬克·麥卡希爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_P._McCahill"
    title: "Mark P. McCahill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_P._McCahill"
    title: "Mark P. McCahill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92934"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump