djst's nest » windows http://djst.org/blog David Tenser's brand new microblog Tue, 22 May 2012 03:58:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Five years ago, Firefox was born http://djst.org/blog/2009/11/09/five-years-ago-firefox-was-born/ http://djst.org/blog/2009/11/09/five-years-ago-firefox-was-born/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:59:07 +0000 David Tenser http://djst.org/blog/?p=519 When I blogged about the launch of Firefox 1.0 five years ago, I knew it was a big day that we would look back at in the future. However, I would be lying if I said back then that I knew what kind of impact Firefox would have on the web as a whole.

Five years ago, you couldn’t choose what type of computer of device you wanted to use to browse the web because all websites were designed to work with IE on Windows. Something as basic as surfing from your mobile device — we take this for granted today — was completely out of the question. Microsoft was in full control of the Internet and your web experience.

This all changed when Firefox was released on November 9th 2004. Finally, web developers could design web sites according to standards instead of designing them to work for IE. Finally, users could experience web sites the way they were meant to be. Finally, the web was accessible to everyone.

In a nutshell, Firefox is the reason why we can surf the web using our iPhones, Linux netbooks, or OpenSolaris PCs.

Firefox set the web free.

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