Re: [FRIAM] Moz 15th birthday
Mozilla the .ORG might be 15 but the Mozilla the Killer App is more like 20! I remember at the 2nd international WWW conference in Chicago, Netscape announcing themselves and using Mozilla, the Killer App as their non-sequitorial mascot. Since when is a dinosaur an ape? They jumbled King Kong and Godzilla and the idea of a Killer App and got Mozilla! For your anecdotal interest, I saw my first off-broadway show during that conference... the Rock Opera Tommy. It *really* stood out in high contrast after spending our days huddled around 1k resolution screens ooing and aahhhing over postage-stamp sized pixelated videos streaming on a web page. We were *so* impressed with ourselves... but Tommy! blew me away! Moz is 15! Just contributed: Hi! I just donated to Mozilla and got a limited-edition, 15th Anniversary plush red dino -- available only to supporters. Join me in wishing Mozilla a happy birthday and get yours before they're gone at http://bit.ly/ZoNIjM A snuggly dino! -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Moz 15th birthday
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 05:08:40PM -0600, Steve Smith wrote: Mozilla the .ORG might be 15 but the Mozilla the Killer App is more like 20! I remember at the 2nd international WWW conference in Chicago, Netscape announcing themselves and using Mozilla, the Killer App as their non-sequitorial mascot. Since when is a dinosaur an ape? They jumbled King Kong and Godzilla and the idea of a Killer App and got Mozilla! I don't know what King Kong or apes had to do with it, but certainly it was a play on Mosaic killer, with a nod to Godzilla. Mosaic being the first graphical internet browser that Marc Andreessen wrote whilst at NCSA Oh, I just checked wikipedia, and can see where apes came into it. The name Godzilla derives from a combination of gorira and kujiru, which mean gorilla and whale respectively. But Godzilla was definitely a dinosaur (although a bit of mongrel of a species...). -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Moz 15th birthday
I'll see you one Moz and rais it a Motiff running a on sparkstation over a ISDN line at I think 12-14 and listening by way of real audio (or some other format) a McNealy Report in which he proclaimed that the Web is the platform. A few weeks later being awed by a port of netscape on a FreeBSD system on a laptop- and reading *rumours *of a development branch going opensource for nightly builds- no idea what license they were considering. This was before opensource was cool On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: Mozilla the .ORG might be 15 but the Mozilla the Killer App is more like 20! I remember at the 2nd international WWW conference in Chicago, Netscape announcing themselves and using Mozilla, the Killer App as their non-sequitorial mascot. Since when is a dinosaur an ape? They jumbled King Kong and Godzilla and the idea of a Killer App and got Mozilla! For your anecdotal interest, I saw my first off-broadway show during that conference... the Rock Opera Tommy. It *really* stood out in high contrast after spending our days huddled around 1k resolution screens ooing and aahhhing over postage-stamp sized pixelated videos streaming on a web page. We were *so* impressed with ourselves... but Tommy! blew me away! Moz is 15! Just contributed: Hi! I just donated to Mozilla and got a limited-edition, 15th Anniversary plush red dino -- available only to supporters. Join me in wishing Mozilla a happy birthday and get yours before they’re gone at http://bit.ly/ZoNIjM A snuggly dino! -- Owen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Moz 15th birthday
I don't know what King Kong or apes had to do with it, but certainly it was a play on Mosaic killer, with a nod to Godzilla. Mosaic being the first graphical internet browser that Marc Andreessen wrote whilst at NCSA Oh, I just checked wikipedia, and can see where apes came into it. The name Godzilla derives from a combination of gorira and kujiru, which mean gorilla and whale respectively. But Godzilla was definitely a dinosaur (although a bit of mongrel of a species...). What I remember being puzzled about was that the Netscape folks (they were brand new then, navigator 1.0 releasing just afterwards) at the conference kept trying to explain Mozilla as the Killer APP... APP, APE, Get it!? they would say... but of course it wasn't an ape it was Barney on steroids! So it was clearly an inside joke or a multi-sequitor where the middle links were left out, leaving the rest of us with the sense of a non-sequitor. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
