Post by account_disabled on Mar 4, 2024 22:36:40 GMT -5
Sooner or later it would have to go like this . The legendary Internet Explorer, Microsoft's famous web browser, will retire on June 25, 2022, after 27 years of honored career. All of this was actually predictable, given that Edge has now taken its place as the default browser of Windows operating systems. After its passing, Internet Explorer certainly won't sit next to the most efficient, responsive or fastest software in history, but it will certainly have a reserved place among the various memes and phenomena of the web. Because, and there is no point in denying it, first of all Explorer is one of the longest-running and most famous memes ever , on which a lot of material has been produced and on which more will probably be produced. Question: How did one of the first browsers go from being a market leader to a support for installing Chrome? Let's find out by taking a few steps back.
A bit of history: the birth of Internet Explorer Not everyone knows that before seeing the light, the Internet Explorer project was entrusted to a very small team, made up of around six people. The year is 1995 : the Internet is still unknown to most people, browsers are few, Microsoft is the leader in the home computer sector. The small team, directed by Benjamin Slivka , conceives software designed for Belgium Phone Number web browsing and fully integrated with Windows operating systems. The 1.0 release of the little Explorer was born in August of the same year, starting from the architecture of Mosaic, the most popular browser of the 90s. From there the growth was exponential : within just one year the third release arrived, with an integrated email client, Microsoft Mail. It doesn't take long before Microsoft's new creation becomes the market leader; this is also because Explorer is fully integrated into Windows, and can be found immediately when you start the computer.
Internet Explorer therefore does nothing but grow, reaching a market share of 90% between 2003 and 2005 - almost absurd, if we look at the following graph, which however concerns a situation from a few years ago. New competitors on the market In fact, starting from 2006, a new competition began to arise, which dethroned Explorer from the role of market leader - think of browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, which was immediately praised for its ease of use and its speed. Explorer fails to stay on track , limiting itself to timidly introducing "novelties" already introduced by competitors, and showing, among other things, numerous safety problems . Microsoft's browser is now slow, it can't keep up and is starting to be bullied by the people of the Internet. All these factors (and many others) contribute to its inclusion in the lists of the worst existing technological products. As in many other cases of excellence, however, Internet Explorer's glory comes precisely with its decline. The decline: Internet Explorer becomes a meme The slowness of Explorer fed to web users has produced more than a decade of memes – impossible to quantify them all.
A bit of history: the birth of Internet Explorer Not everyone knows that before seeing the light, the Internet Explorer project was entrusted to a very small team, made up of around six people. The year is 1995 : the Internet is still unknown to most people, browsers are few, Microsoft is the leader in the home computer sector. The small team, directed by Benjamin Slivka , conceives software designed for Belgium Phone Number web browsing and fully integrated with Windows operating systems. The 1.0 release of the little Explorer was born in August of the same year, starting from the architecture of Mosaic, the most popular browser of the 90s. From there the growth was exponential : within just one year the third release arrived, with an integrated email client, Microsoft Mail. It doesn't take long before Microsoft's new creation becomes the market leader; this is also because Explorer is fully integrated into Windows, and can be found immediately when you start the computer.
Internet Explorer therefore does nothing but grow, reaching a market share of 90% between 2003 and 2005 - almost absurd, if we look at the following graph, which however concerns a situation from a few years ago. New competitors on the market In fact, starting from 2006, a new competition began to arise, which dethroned Explorer from the role of market leader - think of browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, which was immediately praised for its ease of use and its speed. Explorer fails to stay on track , limiting itself to timidly introducing "novelties" already introduced by competitors, and showing, among other things, numerous safety problems . Microsoft's browser is now slow, it can't keep up and is starting to be bullied by the people of the Internet. All these factors (and many others) contribute to its inclusion in the lists of the worst existing technological products. As in many other cases of excellence, however, Internet Explorer's glory comes precisely with its decline. The decline: Internet Explorer becomes a meme The slowness of Explorer fed to web users has produced more than a decade of memes – impossible to quantify them all.