After all these years, Firefox is still going strong, but active development for Thunderbird ceased in 2012. In 1998, the company open-sourced the project and created a new community, the Mozilla Project.Įventually, the Mozilla Application Suite was made lighter and more responsive by splitting it into two new apps, the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird email client. It was succeeded by the improved Netscape Communicator in 1997. Inspired by the growing use of the internet in the 90s, Netscape Navigator-a combined web browser and email client-was released in 1994.
Forty years later, an estimated 269 billion emails are sent every day. Email was created by Ray Tomlinson way back in 1971 and continues to be a popular form of electronic communication today, especially for businesses.
