Philip Gale

Philip Chandler Gale (1978 – March 13, 1998) was an American Internet software developer and sophomore student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was notable for having written Total Access while at MIT, and was hired by EarthLink at the age of 16 to work on its development. In 2008, the company had more than one million users. By the age of 17, Gale had earned roughly a million dollars' worth of stock options at EarthLink for his ISP programs.

In 1995, Gale's father died from a heart attack, and friends said Gale struggled to come to terms with the loss. He returned to MIT in 1996 and became a music major. On March 13, 1998, Gale jumped to his death from a classroom on the 15th floor of a building on the MIT campus. Provided by Wikipedia