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History of Mozilla Application Suite

Mozilla is a big group of people who made a computer program a long time ago. This program was called the Mozilla Application Suite, and it was made up of lots of smaller programs that worked together to help people use the internet.

The Mozilla Application Suite was made to help people do lots of things on the internet, like browse websites, send and receive email, and edit web pages. It was made to work on many different kinds of computers and was free for anyone to download and use.

Lots of people started using the Mozilla Application Suite, and they found that it was very helpful for them. But as time went on, the people in charge of Mozilla decided that they could do even better by making separate programs for each thing that the Mozilla Application Suite did.

So, they made a new program just for browsing websites, and they called it Firefox. They made another program just for sending and receiving email, and they called it Thunderbird. And they continued making new programs for each thing that the Mozilla Application Suite did until it became a big family of programs that people still use today.

Even though the Mozilla Application Suite isn't used as much as it used to be, it was an important part of the history of the internet and helped lots of people do lots of things online.