a birthday of sorts
It was on this day, 5 years ago, that we launched the Mozilla Foundation to provide a lifeboat for the Mozilla project as Netscape/AOL/Time Warner, Mozilla's former sponsor and primary contributor, was slipping into Microsoft's warm technology embrace and abandoning its 5 years of work on Mozilla.
With a new Mozilla Roadmap in hand, and just a handful of people, we had high hopes, but little mind share and even less market share.
A little more than a year later, we would be shipping Firefox 1.0 and changing the face of the Web.
For many people, it was only then, in late 2004, that Mozilla and Firefox began. But as we celebrate this year's 5th anniversary of the Mozilla Foundation, and 10th anniversary of the Mozilla project, it should be a good reminder that we've been slogging through it for quite a while and are only recently starting to see the rewards for those many years of work.
If you have been a part of this Mozilla history, today is a fine time to pat yourself on the back and to be reminded that you've made the Web a better place. If you have not, there's no better time to get involved and help Mozilla make the next 5 and 10 years even better.
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Congratulations to everyone!
I remember that at a said time I have told that AOL hasn't made any single thing about browsers right, so just the fact that it wanted to limit its support to Mozilla and open itself to Microsoft technologies is the best sign that Mozilla will succeed and IE will lose its share. It's incredible how much it proved to be right.
Posted by: Ivan Ičin | July 15, 2008 1:50 PM
Oh man, I feel old. That was back when they'd only just changed the website to that brown-and-white thing with the dotted borders, right? I actually liked the original black/red one better...
Posted by: ant | July 15, 2008 4:10 PM
Ah, I remember the days of M8 -- you couldn't even guarantee a *Milestone* would work much less a nightly!
Posted by: dantealiegri | July 15, 2008 7:07 PM