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Firefox Promo Videos

Posted by Zonk on from the talking-up-the-fox dept.

sebFlyte writes "Last week Mozilla Europe launched some extremely funny promotional videos for Firefox and ZDNet is reporting that they're spreading across the net like wildfire." From the article: "This is just the beginning -- I only posted it on my personal blog and it's already spreading nicely...We wanted to start small as we were concerned that servers wouldn't be able to handle the load."

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  1. Re:This is slashdot so... by Auckerman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Wasn't porn the whole reason that people wanted a better web browser in the first place?"

    Yes, actaully.

    Way back in the day, what got me on the web was the fact that Netscape included a USENET reader that could handle inline UUEncoded files. More specifically JPEG. Had I gotten on the Internet any later than I did (91), I wouldn't know anywhere near as much about Unix as I do now. Having to figure out how to make PINE to launch a shell so I could compile tintin and have less limited access to USENET (their default reader had no subscribe feature and only "approved" groups) ended up being the major foundations of a later career.

    Who says porn is bad for you.

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    Burn Hollywood Burn