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(REDMOND) It’s truly the end of an era.
For decades, the way most of us accessed the World Wide Web was through the original browser created by Microsoft. Today, Internet Explorer has been put out to digital pasture.
It should come as no surprise.
For a few years now, Redmond-based Microsoft has had us all convert to Edge. So it’s no shock that as of today, the company no longer supports Internet Explorer.
Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, and by the early 2000s IE’s market share was over 90%. Which is interesting because IE’s replacement Edge currently has a 4% market share.
Users marked Explorer’s passing on Twitter, with some referring to it as a “bug-ridden, insecure POS” or the “top browser for installing other browsers.” For others it was a moment for 90′s nostalgia memes.
Internet Explorer was labeled too slow and out of date, and now it’s gone to the tech boneyard…joining other friends from the past: the Blackberry, the Palm Pilot, and dial-up modems.
