{"id":62875,"date":"2017-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2017\/07\/01\/the-original-alternative-firey-from-the-start\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T00:00:00","slug":"the-original-alternative-firey-from-the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/firefox\/the-original-alternative-firey-from-the-start\/","title":{"rendered":"The Original Alternative: Firey from the start"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phoenix, Firebird, Firefox. We\u2019ve always had the fire in us. In fact, we rose from the ashes of the OG Browser War, way back near the start of the web itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"firefox<\/p>\n

Haven\u2019t heard this story yet? It\u2019s a good one. Let us take you all the way back, back, back to the ancient history of 1997 and 1998.<\/p>\n

It was a much different web back then \u2013 Candy Crush didn\u2019t exist yet, the word \u201cgoogle\u201d was just a misspelling of a really really large number, and there were only like two players in the browsing business. Netscape Navigator was the pioneer, created by future Silicon Valley super-genius Marc Andreessen and his partner, Jim Clark. But sensing opportunity, Microsoft developed Internet Explorer and quickly emerged as the leader, thanks to the fact that they could pre-install IE with nearly every new PC on the market. After some intense rounds of feature-fighting, Microsoft was ready to hit Netscape with the KO.<\/p>\n

So a lawyer at Netscape pulled the ultimate anti-monopoly move: she laid the groundwork to release the browser\u2019s source code, for all the world\u2019s developers to help fight the good fight. That lawyer was our Executive Chairwoman, Mitchell Baker. Mitchell became co-founder of this new adventure called the Mozilla Project, which started off as a small team but eventually grew into its own foundation devoted to creating an alternative browser. With lots of organizing, motivating, innovating, and zero collaboration software, the power of open source projects was demonstrated, and the browser that would become Firefox was born. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the thing about being open: we mean it in every way. It started with the decision to fight for an Internet that\u2019s open to innovation and competition. It was pushed forward by a global community of volunteer developers working out in the open, with code that\u2019s open to all. Heck, even our first foray into print advertising was an open effort (and this was back in the days when Motley Crue still held the monopoly on <\/span>kickstarting<\/span><\/a> stuff). On December 16, 2004, thousands of Firefox fans all over the world contributed their hard-earned cash to fund <\/span>a full-page ad in the New York Times<\/span><\/a> \u2013 that\u2019s how a tech-world passion project turned into a global people-powered movement. <\/span><\/p>\n

As Firefox and the web have grown up together \u2013\u00a0<\/span>awkward phases and all<\/span><\/a> \u2013 we\u2019ve continued to stand up for an internet that\u2019s open to any adventure you wanna get up to, instead of keeping you and your info in an ecosystem that makes profits off your back.<\/span><\/p>\n

So yeah, we\u2019ve been around since the early days of this crazy thing called the interwebs. And we\u2019ve stood for freedom, independence, and people power the whole time. In fact,<\/span> much like the fanny packs we may or may not be wearing RIGHT NOW<\/span><\/a>, you might say we\u2019re the original alternative. (Because yeah, we\u2019ll say it for ourselves.) <\/span><\/p>\n

And we\u2019re rising once again.<\/p>\n

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Phoenix, Firebird, Firefox. We\u2019ve always had the fire in us. In fact, we rose from the ashes of the OG Browser War, way back near the start of the web itself. Haven\u2019t heard this story yet? It\u2019s a good one. Let us take you all the way back, back, back to the ancient history of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1451,"featured_media":50203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Original Alternative: Firey from the start<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Phoenix, Firebird, Firefox. We\u2019ve had many names, but always had the fire in us. 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