On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 6:11 PM Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Jim, do you still have the original announcement? Would be an interesting > read I guess. >
Here it is: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.msdos.apps/c/oQmT4ETcSzU/m/O1HR8PE2u-EJ The original name from the announcement was PD-DOS. That's because I thought "public domain" (PD) was what we were going for - a DOS that everyone could use - a DOS In the "public domain" (aka "for everyone"). But others pointed out that we were really creating a "free DOS" - and anyway, we were using the GNU GPL for pretty much everything. So we changed the name to "Free-DOS" in about two or three weeks. Later, around the time that Pat published his book, we'd changed the name to "FreeDOS" (no hyphen). But I don't know exactly when we dropped the hyphen. Does anyone else know when that happened? I do know that M. "Hannibal" Toal was our first webmaster, and he created the first website logo (the one on the oval .. very 1990s). https://freedos.org/images/logos/freedos-logo.gif I think it was in the late 1990s (maybe around 2000) that we changed to the second version of our logo, the blue one with the "free" in a sort of block next to "DOS" https://freedos.org/images/logos/freedos-logo2-lg.png I don't remember the exact dates anymore, but I think it was the early to mid 00's that we changed to fish logo. I think Bas Snabilie had donated the fish mascot (named Blinky, because of his big eye) and I thought it was cute. We adopted him as a mascot, including the new logo that incorporated him. https://freedos.org/images/logos/freedos-logo3.png And I think it was the early "twenty-teens" that we updated the logo once again to the "shadow" logo that we have now. It's a minor variation on the original fish logo. https://freedos.org/images/logos/freedos-logo4.svg I've been experimenting with an updated website, and I'm considering going back to the original 1990s logo. We can use Blinky elsewhere on the website, but maybe a "throwback" logo would be cool? Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
