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| 18 | <h1>"Ancient" History</h1> |
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| 20 | <div class="explanation"> |
| 21 | <ul class="timeline"> |
| 22 | <li><b>1998</b>: |
| 23 | <ul> |
| 24 | <li>January 23: |
| 25 | <ul> |
| 26 | <li>Netscape <span class="hilite">opening up development of Netscape |
| 27 | Communicator</span> internet suite</li> |
| 28 | <li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla</a> project |
| 29 | <a href="http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease577.html"> |
| 30 | founded</a> to bring new power to that product.</li> |
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| 32 | </li> |
| 33 | <li>March 31: |
| 34 | <ul> |
| 35 | <li><a href="http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease591.html?cp=nws04flh1">first |
| 36 | developer release of the source code</a> to Communicator</li> |
| 37 | </ul> |
| 38 | <li>Netscape internally looking for a <span class="hilite">codename</span> |
| 39 | for next big release (planned as version 5.0 at that time) |
| 40 | <ul> |
| 41 | <li>Developer voting</li> |
| 42 | <li>Surprising result: <span class="hilite">"ButtMonkey"</span> winning! |
| 43 | ("jenga" as run-in)</li> |
| 44 | <li>Netscape management deciding to use the similar sounding but comparably |
| 45 | harmless <span class="hilite">"SeaMonkey"</span>.</li> |
| 46 | <li>Codename getting heavily tied to suite development, |
| 47 | binaries getting released on project page with that codename.</li> |
| 48 | <li class="small">(Thanks to dveditz, Google cache and pseudorandom.org |
| 49 | IRC logs for helping us to find out about that.)</li> |
| 50 | </ul> |
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| 54 | <li><b>2002</b>: |
| 55 | <ul> |
| 56 | <li>June 5: |
| 57 | <ul> |
| 58 | <li><span class="hilite"><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.html">Mozilla 1.0</a></span> |
| 59 | <a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article2278.html">released</a></li> |
| 60 | <li>People <a href="http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/">partying</a> all |
| 61 | over the world</li> |
| 62 | </ul> |
| 63 | </li> |
| 64 | <li>April-August: |
| 65 | <ul> |
| 66 | <li>A few developers start project for <span class="hilite">standalone |
| 67 | browser</span></li> |
| 68 | <li>called "m/b", later "Phoenix", then "Firebird", now |
| 69 | "Firefox"</li> |
| 70 | </ul> |
| 71 | </li> |
| 72 | </ul> |
| 73 | </li> |
| 74 | <li><b>2003</b>: |
| 75 | <ul> |
| 76 | <li>April 2: |
| 77 | <ul> |
| 78 | <li>mozilla.org publishes |
| 79 | <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-02-Apr-2003.html">new |
| 80 | roadmap</a></li> |
| 81 | <li>calls for <span class="hilite">fading out suite</span> |
| 82 | after Mozilla 1.4 in favor of standalone browser and mail</li> |
| 83 | <li>Suite would not be retired for the "foreseeable future" though</li> |
| 84 | </ul> |
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