Mozilla - Wikipedia: After uncovering the truth about ping, I was determined to unearth the mystery of another engimatic Internet name: Mozilla. Wikipedia took all the fun out of it.
The name Mozilla had been used internally for the Netscape Navigator web browser from its beginning. It was a contraction of Mosaic-killer, referring to the hope that the project would unseat Mosaic as the web’s most popular browser, along with the name of the fictional monster Godzilla.
The Story of the PING Program: Finally, the guy who wrote the ping utility backs up my eternal assertion that it was named for the sonar similartiy, and not for some stupid acronym that no one remembers. I always knew this, but people kept trying to correct me. From my…