10 years ago: Mozilla 1.0

After a deep rewrite of much of Netscape 4.0/5.0′s code, Mozilla 1.0, later to be known as Mozilla Internet Suite to better distinguish the product from the company, was finally released after more than 4 years of development, on June 6th, 2002.
Aimed towards developers, it would never really take off among consumers. Of course, the story would change a few months later with the launch of project Phoenix, which removed Mozilla’s IRC and email clients, web page editor, many preferences, and wi…