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+Mozilla History: 20+ Years And Counting
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Mozilla History: 20+ Years And Counting
+An overview a decades-old project
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+Slides: + https://slides.kairo.at/fosdem2021/
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- Created for a presentation in the Mozilla + Developer Room at FOSDEM 2021 in + Brussels. +
- Written in HTML 5 (with modern CSS and JS). +
- Navigation via links on all slides, via access keys + (e.g. "n"/Alt+Shift+N for "next") or back/forward arrow keys +
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+ 01/2020 Robert Kaiser -
+ "Mozilla", "Firefox" and related marks/logos are
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Robert Kaiser - KaiRo
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- kairo@kairo.at / home.kairo.at +
- Mozilla Rep, + Tech Speaker +
- Based in Vienna, Austria +
- Not on most major social networks +
- But on Matrix, + Diaspora*, + Mozilla Community, + Telegram, + LinkedIn, + KaiRo-at at GitHub +
Origin of the Name "Mozilla"
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- 1993: Marc Andreessen, co-writer of + NCSA + Mosaic, + co-founds company for commercial web browser +
- "Mosaic killer" app, reminding of "Godzilla" --> code-name "Mozilla" +
- Used as internal name, user agent "Mozilla/..." +
- Green dino mascot (© Dave Titus) +
- Public/commercial name Netscape later in 1994 +
Mozilla Project Launch
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- Jan 1998: Netscape announces open-sourcing of code +
- Using Mozilla project name, mozilla.org +
- Red dino mascot (by Shepard Fairy) +
- tag line "hack - this technology could fall into the right hands" +
- Target: Internet Application Suite code as base for Netscape 5+ +
- Open-source code launch on March 31, 1998 +
- Code Rush documentary +
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