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The Quiet Architect Behind Shell’s Biggest Online Headache

How a teenage “internet whizz” helped create the website Shell tried — and failed — to silence for three decades. A Phantom Web Whizz Became Shell’s Digital Nemesis In the mid-1990s, when the Internet still seemed like a passing fad and oil companies still lectured the world about “responsible energy,” a quiet digital operator answered a newspaper advertisement from John Donovan, the former Shell promotions partner turned corporate adversary. Th…
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc .com broke the news in on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
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