The T-Shirt History of Mozilla
As anyone who’s spent much time around the Mozilla community knows, t-shirts are an incredibly important part of our culture. So, when Mary showed me a stack of classic shirts she’d collected from Mitchell, chofmann, Myk and others, I thought it would be fun to document all the Mozilla t-shirts throughout the years (with a few Netscape ones thrown in for historical context).
After some detective work, here are the 53 shirts I’ve collected so far (arranged in rough chronological order so you can see the progression):
If you want to see them up close, I’ve created a Flickr set of all the images. I’m quite sure that there are plenty of shirts I missed, so if you have one that’s not pictured here please let me know. I’d like this to be as comprehensive as possible.
This is sure to be a constantly evolving thing…I know of at least four new shirts currently in development that will have to be added soon. So, enjoy this little look back through Mozilla history and stay tuned for future updates.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Having filed bug 385513, obviously I think that this blogpost, the Flickr material and all the work that must have gone into both are absolutely awesome. Huge kudos to you, John. Keep it coming!
June 4th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Looks like there’s one from the hack series missing:
http://flickr.com/photos/andyed/2322672436/
I got mine at the San Diego Open Source Conference summer 2001. I think they were being handed out at one event following that.
June 4th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
That’s a lot of t-shirt design <3 for Mozilla over the years. Next up: sticker history project?
June 4th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Be sure to ask Lucy Connor for the “#developers!” t-shirt. I happen to be wearing that one today.
June 4th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Is the Mozilla Europe T-shirt the evil launch staff one? If so, you should have taken the backside
June 4th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
@Gijs – Thanks! I appreciate that. Btw, the result of your ‘old school’ shirt request in bug 385513 is that “Mozilla 10 years” shirt towards the top of the t-shirt collage graphic. We’ll be making it available in a few weeks for people who donate to the Mozilla Foundation…stay tuned for more details.
@Andyed – Great shirt! If you still have easy access to it, would you be able to take a picture of it laying flat on a table? I’d love to add it to the group.
@Paul – That sounds ambitious!
@Alex – Good tip, thanks.
@Axel – If I recall correctly, that Mozilla Europe shirt didn’t have anything on the back. Maybe it’s a different one? If you have the ‘evil’ version handy, send me a picture!
June 4th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
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June 4th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
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June 4th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
I see you also added a Mozillaitalia T-Shirt. Are you interested in other l10n team T-Shirts? I have the French one, and I think we sent one or two of them to Mountain View a few years ago
June 5th, 2008 at 12:56 am
I think I may have a couple of others not in the collection … will try to dig them up.
June 5th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Hello John, I have been surprised seeing that you collected also a Mozilla Italia t-shirt. This is wonderful!
Ciao
June 5th, 2008 at 3:12 am
Not counting the Netscape ones (too many of them
here’s the ones you are missing and that I know of:
- Mozilla FOSDEM “PacMan” T-shirt (I think it’s 2002, not sure)
- Mozilla “Hack” T-shirt with just the Mozilla Star and a catchphrase (How many versions exists? I’ll have to check but I’m not sure mine has the same text as Andyed’s)
- Mozilla Tech Evang “RESOLVED FIXED” made for Mozilla 1.0 (see http://users.skynet.be/osga/photos/fosdem-2004/fosdem-02-2004-02.jpg)
- Black/White (and White/Black) Mozilla Europe t-shirt (http://144233.spreadshirt.net/fr/FR/Shop/Article/Index/article/Mozilla-Europe-noir-3264620)
- Firefox Paris 2 Launch Party, the white one
If I’m not mistaken, only the back of The Mozilla Europe “Staff” T-shirt differs from yours, it says “Launch Staff”.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:48 am
I’m actually wearing the old blue big-firefox-logo t-shirt (my favorite one) as I write! Thanks for the nice collection
June 5th, 2008 at 5:52 am
There’s also a “Mozilla 1.0 Tech Evangelism Resolved Fixed”.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:31 am
I have one you don’t have, and can remember another.
I have a standard black t-shirt with Dino head and “mozilla” in white. Available from the store, I think.
There was also a Mozilla Europe “Pacman”-style shirt.
My “hack” t-shirt was stolen in Feb 2006 along with the rest of my luggage in the railway station in Brussels
Gerv
June 5th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
This is so awesome! We definitely have some really cool new ones rolling in soon. Can’t wait to see this “gallage” evolve over time.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:27 am
Here is a custom made T-shirt
http://picasaweb.google.co.jp/hideyuki.level/Mozilla24/photo#5110409442010205282
and one more
http://picasaweb.google.co.jp/hideyuki.level/Mozilla24/photo#5110409463485041778
June 6th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
@Benoit – I’d love to include other l10n t-shirts…if you have any, please send me some photos if it’s not too much trouble.
@Brian – thanks!
@Mat – I added a picture of the star Hack shirt today, but am still missing all the others you mentioned. Any chance you could send pictures?
Thanks to everyone who’s viewed or commented on this photo/post…it’s been a fun project. I’ll keep collecting more photos and will post an update in a few weeks.
June 6th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
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June 7th, 2008 at 8:49 am
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June 7th, 2008 at 8:57 am
And two french t-shirts made for Mozilla Europe :- ‘Take back the Web’ on Alsacréations- ‘Mozilla Europe’ on Alsacréations
June 8th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Awesome post, Slater!!!
June 19th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
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June 21st, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Eli Goldberg has at least a few Netscape shirts that aren’t pictured here:
http://flickr.com/photos/foolswisdom/214475380/
http://flickr.com/photos/foolswisdom/157655627/
and I think a Wallace and Gromit one that was an internal code name for one of the releases?
June 28th, 2008 at 4:06 am
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August 6th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I posted the Hack + “this technology could fall into the right hands” pic, sorry from iphone, at:
http://flickr.com/photos/andyed/2738628889/sizes/l/
August 18th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
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October 9th, 2008 at 12:17 am
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February 10th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
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May 30th, 2009 at 2:31 am
Its really something admiring that you are have collecting so worthy information.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:06 am
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August 27th, 2009 at 7:58 am
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September 13th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
He’s finally back. The original Netscape mascot, Mozilla, is adorning apparel once again. Get the first rerelease of one of the original Netscape Mozilla t-shirts while supplies last. http://www.mozillagear.com/ More to come!
October 27th, 2009 at 12:33 am
hey, i need to replace my mozilla “star” shirt. six rows down, 2nd from left. in 3x no less. can anybody please help me?
October 27th, 2009 at 12:34 am
p.s. i can be found at mgrkrug@tahoo.com
October 27th, 2009 at 12:36 am
dang…yahoo.com…..wheres the edit thing for this?