Mozilla continued to be used inside Netscape, though, often featuring on T-shirts given to staff or on artwork adorning the walls of the Netscape campus in Mountain View. However, the need to project a more "professional" image (especially towards corporate clients) led to him being removed. Mozilla featured prominently on Netscape's web site in the company's early years. This design rendered Mozilla in the form of a green and purple cartoon lizard, designed by Dave Titus in 1994.
Initially the mascot took various forms, including that of a helmeted astronaut or "spaceman", but the eventual choice of a Godzilla-like lizard which went well with the theme of crushing the competition, especially because of the similarity between the names. The name stood for "Mosaic killer", as the company's goal was to displace NCSA Mosaic as the world's number one web browser. Programmer Jamie Zawinski came up with the name during a meeting while working at the company. The name "Mozilla" was already in use at Netscape as the codename for Netscape Navigator 1.0. Named after the original name, Mosaic, for Netscape Navigator and Godzilla, Mozilla was the mascot of the Netscape Communications Corporation and subsequently the Mozilla Foundation.
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