Saturday, 2. December 2006
Topic: COMPUTER - on December 2, 2006 at 12:20:00 PM CET
How was Mozilla born - The story of the first mascot on the Internet
Andrew Wong, art director with Poppe Tyson Advertising in Mountain View, California, asked me to help create Netscape's first Web Page in September of 1994, then known as Mosaic Communications Corporation. It was a few weeks prior to the Netscape project that Curtis Fukuda, a photographer in Mountain View had introduced me to Andrew. A meeting was arranged where Andrew reviewed my portfolio and pulled samples. Dave Carlick, President of Poppe Tyson, Mountain View, CA, saw the samples when they were assembling the team to work on the Netscape website, and especially liked an illustration I did called "The Junk Food Junkie" (he actually pictured using the creature on the Netscape web site; an early sketch Andrew did of the Mosaic home page has "The Junk Food Junkie" on a mosaic tile riding a unicycle)
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