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+<h1>"Ancient" History</h1>
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+<div class="explanation">
+<ul class="timeline">
+ <li><b>1998</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li>January 23:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Netscape <span class="hilite">opening up development of Netscape
+ Communicator</span> internet suite</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">Mozilla</a> project
+ <a href="http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease577.html">
+ founded</a> to bring new power to that product.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>March 31:
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease591.html?cp=nws04flh1">first
+ developer release of the source code</a> to Communicator</li>
+ </ul>
+ <li>Netscape internally looking for a <span class="hilite">codename</span>
+ for next big release (planned as version 5.0 at that time)
+ <ul>
+ <li>Developer voting</li>
+ <li>Surprising result: <span class="hilite">"ButtMonkey"</span> winning!
+ ("jenga" as run-in)</li>
+ <li>Netscape management deciding to use the similar sounding but comparably
+ harmless <span class="hilite">"SeaMonkey"</span>.</li>
+ <li>Codename getting heavily tied to suite development,
+ binaries getting released on project page with that codename.</li>
+ <li class="small">(Thanks to dveditz, Google cache and pseudorandom.org
+ IRC logs for helping us to find out about that.)</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>2002</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li>June 5:
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="hilite"><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0.html">Mozilla 1.0</a></span>
+ <a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article2278.html">released</a></li>
+ <li>People <a href="http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/">partying</a> all
+ over the world</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li>April-August:
+ <ul>
+ <li>A few developers start project for <span class="hilite">standalone
+ browser</span></li>
+ <li>called "m/b", later "Phoenix", then "Firebird", now
+ "Firefox"</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>2003</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li>April 2:
+ <ul>
+ <li>mozilla.org publishes
+ <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap/roadmap-02-Apr-2003.html">new
+ roadmap</a></li>
+ <li>calls for <span class="hilite">fading out suite</span>
+ after Mozilla 1.4 in favor of standalone browser and mail</li>
+ <li>Suite would not be retired for the "foreseeable future" though</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
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