Firefox is five years old
A perfect example of how fast technology moves is the fact that it is only five years since the Firefox browser came on the scene. Firefox 1.0 was released on November 9, 2004. I am so used to having Firefox that it seems much longer ago that I first used Firefox. Our thanks and congratulations should go to the Mozilla group for rescuing us from the stodgy grip of Internet Explorer and prodding Microsoft into actively developing IE again. Ars Technica comments:
Indeed, Firefox has become a bright symbol of technological freedom and the poster child of open source success. Mozilla’s efforts have helped to raise awareness about the importance of vendor-neutral Web standards and the power of collaboration and community-driven development. Mozilla’s philosophical values became the cement with which the architects of the open Web built our brave new Internet.
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Hmmm. Well, between being homeless to not having even a phone to not having internet service, I didn’t have my own internet access from October 31, 2004 to….. September 29, 2007. And the computers of the public libraries I used certainly never had anything but microsux products installed. So it doesn’t seem so distant to ME. But I’m surprised to hear that there weren’t versions of it out there before that time window, and that I hadn’t merely not heard of it myself.