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Shoutout to this Kiwi legend in this Firefox 1.0 NYT ad (2004) (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by d3Xt3r to c/offtopic

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Back in 2004, the Mozilla Foundation placed a two-page Firefox advocacy ad in The New York Times, featuring the names of 10,000 donators.

What I wasn't expecting though, was this prominently featured quote:

“I installed Firefox on my laptop
today. It’s so fast — I never knew
there could be that much of a
difference.”
— Stephen Cropp, New Zealand

What a legend. I wonder if Mr. Cropp is still using Firefox, and what he's up to these days.

Source: Hacker News

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[–] Dave 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

2004 doesn't seem long enough ago for Firefox 1.0. I'm sure Firefox had a major market share around then, but I'm also sure I never used Netscape Navigator. By 2004 I had built and run websites (though I was never very good at it, and that never changed).

Did Firefox 0.X get decent uptake?

This post is messing with my memory of those times.

[–] sixincomefigure 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In my memory it was Firebird for quite a while before it rebranded to Firefox. Long enough that I felt sceptical about the change - like the Firebird brand was strong enough that they were making a mistake.

Actually, looking back, it was only Firebird for less than a year...

[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago

The years were so much longer when we were younger 🙂

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