Happy Birthday, Mozilla
Posted by Fred on January 25, 2008
A Mozilla Firefox cake, created by Download Squad and Slashfood blogger and professional pastry chef Shayna Glick in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Netscape announcement setting the Netscape navigator source code free. The code was released as Mozilla Milestone 3 in 1999, and eventually gave rise to a browser-only release, Phoenix 0.1, in September 2002. Phoenix then became Firefox in February 2004 (after a brief prelude as Firebird), and the rest is, as they say, history. The developers are working on Firefox 3, currently officially available as Beta 2 (which is what I use daily), although the open source nature of the project means that you can always download a nightly build.
My history with Mozilla products dates to Mozilla 0.6, released in December 2000. I had used Navigator before that, of course, beginning when I got it on a disc from my first ISP in December 1994. At some point, however, IE took over and I only used Mozilla to either make some sort of statement or when I was in one of my “play around with Linux” phases. I’m not sure when Firefox took over permanently, but it was probably around the 0.9 release in June 2004. They’ve come a long way - my father-in-law uses Firefox exclusively, and my kids just think of Firefox as “the Internet.”
As an aside, I hope people don’t actually eat that cake. Black icing tends to have disastrous consequences if you don’t have a toothbrush handy:
