Making its debut in 1995 as part of Windows 95, Internet Explorer was quick to rise and pitted against 90's dominant browser Netscape Navigator for the top spot in the first browser war.Īs per reports, Microsoft spent over $100 million per year on Internet Explorer in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people involved in the project by 1999. How this self-mockery fared for the tech giant and the browser is evident as the revival seemed a long shot the damage was done. Much to everyone's surprise, in 2012, the tech giant came up with 'The Browser You Loved to Hate' promotional campaign which said the old versions of IE were good for only one thing: 'downloading another browser.'

The death of the browser was already on the cards as the world moved to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, and other browsers.Īmid this, Internet Explorer became just a medium for people to download other browsers.Įven Microsoft accepted it and tried to use it to rebrand the browser. Interestingly, the same popular accounts or pages on Instagram and Twitter bid adieu to the good old Internet Explorer with full respect, dedicating a post filled with nostalgia. There was hardly a flicker of hope for the forgotten browser and its misery became fodder for memes and viral posts on the modern internet. “Internet Explorer 11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022, for certain versions of Windows 10,” Microsoft said in a blog post.įor the uninitiated, the browser was well alive so far, and it's going to die officially on June 15.

The death of one of the first web browsers - the Internet Explorer - has been slow and painful.

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