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Curl hearts Mozilla

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Re: Curl hearts Mozilla

#31

For prior art of using :// in branding, here's the IT consulting company I used to run in the early 2000's: https://www.sunesis.com.au/ They haven't changed their website since I sold out in 2003, quite an astonishing thing for a website. You can see, though, that the graphic designer got a bit confused and reversed the order to //:. He insisted on leaving it that way because design reasons.

It just looks like a disapproval emoticon when it's backwards. Fitting.

Re: Curl hearts Mozilla

#32
post #4

This is such a non issue that it didn't even warrant the blog post.

You'd think so, yeah, but I'm sure there's going to be some people who just want to be negative about it, and I'm glad that I have a link that I can smack those people with.

Re: Curl hearts Mozilla

#34

For prior art of using :// in branding, here's the IT consulting company I used to run in the early 2000's: https://www.sunesis.com.au/ They haven't changed their website since I sold out in 2003, quite an astonishing thing for a website. You can see, though, that the graphic designer got a bit confused and reversed the order to //:. He insisted on leaving it that way because design reasons.

"Our Strength in Web-Based Projects"

:/

Re: Curl hearts Mozilla

#35
post #4

This is such a non issue that it didn't even warrant the blog post.

I wasn't even aware that curl had a logo.

Same here. `curl(1)` is such a program that you use all the time on many different machines... without ever visiting the home page of the project. I think I saw that curl logo for the first time today...

Re: Curl hearts Mozilla

#36
TIL that curl _had_ a logo. I've been using it almost daily since quite a while... but apparently never visited the project website after the new logo / wordmark of curl.

BTW, Mozilla's logo is a bit smarter, by using the colon instead of an "i" and the slashes instead of two "l"s. In hindsight, they picked the right name in 1998 for this logo.

Re: Curl hearts Mozilla

#37

For prior art of using :// in branding, here's the IT consulting company I used to run in the early 2000's: https://www.sunesis.com.au/ They haven't changed their website since I sold out in 2003, quite an astonishing thing for a website. You can see, though, that the graphic designer got a bit confused and reversed the order to //:. He insisted on leaving it that way because design reasons.

Thanks for that link, I was instantly transported back to 2002. I miss the internet of old.

Re: Curl hearts Mozilla

#39
they're just trying what other ideas such as nations are already doing, it's called nationalism, well this is browseronism, they are asking us to love the browser, it's gonna be a little bit harder since we wasn't born in Mozillandia, that would help then you could tell people about their ancestors etc.

Re: Curl hearts Mozilla

#40
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> how this could lead to possible confusion I sincerely doubt it. There are two groups in the world: Group A: What the hell is a Mozilla? Group B: knows the difference between cURL and Mozilla

But what about the third who may see a cURL logo after the new Mozilla logo and say, "oh, I didn't realize cURL was a Mozilla project."

No one even knew curl had a logo until today. I'm guessing 80% of the people that use it have never been to the website.
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