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"SeaMonkey" has been the codename for the Mozilla suite for some time, though it originally was invented by Netscape management as a codename for the release later called "Netscape 6" - they simply needed a "politically correct" version of the codename "ButtMonkey" their developers had actually voted for (and apparently "jenga" was the run-in in this voting)... | "SeaMonkey" has been the codename for the Mozilla suite for some time, though it originally was invented by Netscape management as a codename for the release later called "Netscape 6" - they simply needed a "politically correct" version of the codename "ButtMonkey" their developers had actually voted for (and apparently "jenga" was the run-in in this voting)... | ||
(Thanks to dveditz, Google cache and pseudorandom.org IRC logs for helping us to find out about that) | (Thanks to dveditz, Google cache and pseudorandom.org IRC logs for helping us to find out about that) | ||
The real "Sea-Monkeys" (Artemia Nyos) are a hybrid of Artemia Salina (brine shrimp), read more about those animals in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-Monkey Wikipedia)... | |||
BTW, the German translation of the name, "Seeaffe", was/is an alias for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_mink Sea Mink (Mustela macrodon)] which is an extinct species (hunted for its highly-valued fur, extinct around 1890) of the Mustelidae or weasel family. A close, still living, relative to that animal can be viewed in that [http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/sgs/mvpsg/species/Mustela_vison.jpg picture]. Interestingly, weasels might look similar to small Foxes and the codename for unoffical, changed builds of Firefox is "Iceweasel". ;-) BTW, while the chinese word for "Firefox" can refer to both the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Fox red fox] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Panda red panda], the latter is a closer relative to the Sea Mink than the former... | BTW, the German translation of the name, "Seeaffe", was/is an alias for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_mink Sea Mink (Mustela macrodon)] which is an extinct species (hunted for its highly-valued fur, extinct around 1890) of the Mustelidae or weasel family. A close, still living, relative to that animal can be viewed in that [http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/sgs/mvpsg/species/Mustela_vison.jpg picture]. Interestingly, weasels might look similar to small Foxes and the codename for unoffical, changed builds of Firefox is "Iceweasel". ;-) BTW, while the chinese word for "Firefox" can refer to both the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Fox red fox] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Panda red panda], the latter is a closer relative to the Sea Mink than the former... | ||