FireFox turned 10 years old this week. As much as the internet and society has had a love/hate relationship with this browser it is very important to not lose this one lesson: Initial month of deployment: 100 million downloads (10% market share) and now Microsoft was threatened by this new upstart browser and had just finished destroying Netscape.
But the real lesson not to be forgotten: Blake Ross was a Stanford freshman (just 19 years old) along with Dave Hyatt and Joe Hewitt started developing this browser.
They were fresh out of High School when they all began developing what we now know as FireFox.
In Higher Education we need to really see that the world has changed rather significantly and for many administrators this lesson on launching a successful alternative to Internet Explorer is not lost on me.
Are we fully acknowledging that in the new App Economy we already see European countries teaching mobile app development in grade schools.
How far do we fall behind?