Did ya know? 🤪Internet Explorer has been around since August 16, 1995. It had some problems, but it came out before Firefox and Chrome. Internet Explorer is the true OG. 🥲
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I am 20. My memory goes as far back as Internet Explorer. 😂 Internet Explorer was our go to, during the early days of grade school. So, I don't know what Netscape is…LOL 🤣🤣🤣 I have heard of it, but I don’t know much about it. 😂😂😂
Do you know that Internet Explorer is dying on June 15, 2022 (today) 🤔?
IE was pretty good in the day, surpassed Netscape when that thing got too bloated. But like a lot of Microsoft things in the early 2000s they took their eye off the ball. Could have kept themselves on-top if they really wanted to as they did help set new standards, and pushed web boundaries further. They couldn't kill off IE for years because you had companies still using expensive systems that still used ActiveX and no other browser supported it so it was kept around as legacy tool.
Edge is a good browser now, and it's based on Chromium.
This is the tech world. Here even a moth old smartphone becomes obsolete in the next month.
I don't have Internet Explorer in my laptop but I have Edge instead. This browser is awesome. No problems at all. They have given premium editing features for free.
But I am using Firefox, Brave and very rarely Chrome, as I really do not like that browser.
IE did come out before Mozilla Firefox, but you need to know that Mozilla was created from Netscape which was the dominant browser before IE. Back in the early days of the web, I used Netscape and AltaVista. IE came later and became dominant because IE was included with Windows. This led to the anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft.
Anyway, Firefox was based on Netscape, so, in a sense, it is older than IE... its origins certainly are.
It did not die on that date. There is no date that it will be dead. But it has been a poor browser amongst what is available for a long time. That date was the day that Microsoft stopped supporting it. No more updates. No more fixes. No more help with it. But it will continue working as it is. Some people may be reading this using it and know that it is not dead.
I haven't used it in 16 years, it had a lot of crashes and errors and I quickly switched to Firefox. Nowadays I use Vivaldi and I highly recommend it, it's not owned by Google or a Chinese company both of which spy on you.
Damn, took long enough. As crappy as "default" browsers are nowadays, like Edge, nothing was worse than Internet Explorer. It should've died around the same time Blockbuster did.
Ok joygirl i graduated high school in 1995 and less than a month later the internet came out and yet I still feel the same age as you nice try though on trying to make me feel old lol just messing with you
@Snsl153 it depended where u lived. The Internet didn't come out nationwide. If u lived 10 miles near pacific bell or a similar telephone company. u were qualified. But ddos was the first form I experienced the internet. Then engine browser made its debut. It was picture... a picture took about 10 minutes to 30 , depending on quality. If a call was coming in it would disrupt any progress. The part many people leave out. U better have know the exact website, because their wasn't any suggestions or (did u mean...) Then when dsl came around holy shit. Proxy or p2p-fs was the shit. 1 hour = one song. Then the rest is history. We haven't progressed since broadband and fiber-optic cable came around.
Some problems? .. SOME problems? :O Yes, yes I did, it was the biggest cause of viruses known to man at one point. May it rest in pieces.. hoyckkkk patoooooeeeyy :d
@exitseven Netscape was my first browser, back in AOL dialup days at 9600 baud. Unless I'm mistaken, Netscape evolved into Firefox, which, along with Chrome, are the browsers I use most often.
@AviatorTom Yes, Firefox sort of evolved from Netscape. When i was in grad school one of my fellow students dod a class project about something called the World Wide Web. He talked about HTML and Mosaic browsers. I had no idea what he was talking about and wondered who would use such a ridiculous thing. Go figurel
I don't know why…lol Yea, you are right, it still works (I used it last semester with my prof.). Maybe because they noticed people were not using it much.
Probably to lessen the time Microsoft spends maintaining older versions of its products. About a year ago Microsoft ended updates on its Office 2010 package. Also, it has stopped updating older versions of Windows.
Incorrect, Windows 10 is still being supported and given updates, and will continue to do so until October 2025. By then, Windows 10 will no longer receive culminative nor security updates. It can still be used after much like any other past Windows, but the liability is then on the user if their PC is compromised. Windows 11 should've been an optional update to 10 instead of being its own OS.
DoD sent out a message a while back that gave daily reminders saying internet would sunset on the 15th. This was coming but took a few years to do so. Everything is now Edge and Chrome from the look of it
No I didn't know that. But not surprised. I used to use it but haven't for probably years now. I don't remember why I switched exactly, but some sort of issue I was having that I've never had with Chrome, and have stuck with since.
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Yup i know. i work as an IT guy. We have been praying for this day because a lot of legacy apps and the like for banking and medical are now FORCED to update their code.
Pathetic browser since the start. Do you know know Netscape, Microsoft incorporated IE in windows to wipe out Netscape. IE has always been the most unsafe browser.
To be perfectly honest, who really cares unless you're on the MS Internet Support Team lol So you'll have to expand your horizons my theory throughout life whether it be in education or careers has been nothing ventured nothing gained, 😉😁
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