What's the origin of "ARE X Y YET?"

[desktopd (Desktopd Mozilla Product Lead)]

Around Mozilla I see many examples of “Are X Y Yet?” naming (X = mostly “we”). What is the origin of these phrases? Since which point have they been preferred?

• areweflashyet.com (Flash replacement)
• arewecompressedyet.com (Daala, the next generation video codec for the Web, with Xiph.org)
• arewee10syet.com (multiprocess Firefox)
• arewewebextensionsyet.com (WebExtensions)
• likely many more…

Possibly related:

Are they slim yet?

[mykmelez]

I think this is the (most) definitive list:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet

As I recall, arewefastyet.com was the original one. I thought it was older, but the earliest references I can find date back to 2010, like this one from September of that year:

http://www.wired.com/2010/09/mozilla-asks-are-we-fast-yet/

And the Wayback Machine’s first copy in April 2010:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100412155958/http://arewefastyet.com/?

[desktopd (Desktopd Mozilla Product Lead)]

Thanks, but the wiki page contains some outdated links which should be removed, namely:

• areweprettyyet.com (no longer related to Mozilla)
• areweprivateyet.com (just links to a proprietary add-on)
• arewemobileyet.com (no longer related to Mozilla)

Creating many short-lived domains leaves many outdated links to “domain aftermarket” advertisers. This list should be updated too: http://arewemetayet.com/