The long awaited New York Times ad spreading the Firefox message has finally hit the presses. I first mentioned this campaign almost two months ago.

The ad was originally expected to run within a few weeks of the launch of Firefox 1.0 in the beginning of November, but publication was delayed simply because fitting the names of all 10,000 donors onto a single broadsheet page was quite a feat to undertake.

The first page of the two-page ad — twice as large as originally planned — features the Firefox symbol superimposed over the names of the 10,000 donors, and a line about the browser:

Are you fed up with your Web browser?
“You’re not alone. We want you to know that there is an alternative.

The second page features the Firefox symbol, some information about Firefox and quotes from satisfied users. Despite the delay in the ad, both the preview and final release of Firefox have attracted a lot of interest.

On to the real breaking news of the day: My name is the first of the 10,000 names printed in the ad! I actually had few people come up to me on campus today and mention they saw my name in the New York Times today. Here’s a scanned

There are a few ways to get a copy of the ad: run to your local bookstore and grab today’s copy of the New York Times for $1, download a digital copy in PDF form, or head over to the Mozilla Store to pick up your own limited edition print for $6.95.