Has it really been 10 years since Mozilla officially launched!

March 31, 1998 is the date that Mozilla was officially launched. It’s the date the first Mozilla code became publicly available under the terms of an official open source license and a governing body for the project — the Mozilla Organization — began its public work. It’s always been known in Mozilla parlance as “3/31.” We’ll be celebrating Mozilla’s 10 year anniversary throughout 2008.

To remember this jwz has brought the Mosaic Communications Corporation website back online.

home.mcom.com a snapshot of that web site from 21-Oct-1994.
mosaic.mcom.com a snapshot of that web site from July 1994.
He’s also hosting his personal collection of old Mosaic browsers.

Very retro, all goodness. When I started on this post I was going to go back several years and write a bit about what it was like surfing the then very fresh ‘internet’ in the early 90s, the BBS and Brunet’s intranet pages but then decided that I should be spending this time reading the posts and articles by technology connoisseurs who were knee deep in both the development and politics of that age.

What about the next 10years?

The challenges before us are great. But the opportunity is many times larger. We have the ability to affect aspects of Internet architecture and user experience. We have the organization, we have the frameworks we need to work in, we have the voice. And most important of all, we have the Mozilla community. The many thousands of people actively engaged, and the multiples of that who support Mozilla goals and offerings.
It’s our world. Let’s make it great. Here’s to another 10 years!
- Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler

Hats off to the Open Source Hackers who have rocked ‘Mozilla’ to the success it is today.