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 [email protected] 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
