steven36 Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Happy birthday Internet Explorer -- we've really grown to hate you over the years Remember the days of screeching dial up modems, fat CRT monitors with crappy resolutions, and 16-bit operating systems? That was so long ago. August 16th, 1995, the day Microsoft released Internet Explorer 1.0 as part of Windows. Microsoft first released Internet Explorer 1.0 as part of a special $49 package known as Plus! for Windows 95, which featured an assortment of screensavers, themes, games, and more (oh how the little things made us happy!).Internet Explorer caused Microsoft a lot of heat over the years, especially with antitrust issues. Internet Explorer, having been released during a time when America Online and Netscape were dominating the internet, caused the birth of the browser wars. Internet Explorer 1.0 was a mere 1MB in size and didn’t really do too much, except surf the internet — minus the ability to see graphics, access dynamic content, and more. Internet Explorer 2.0 hit the net later that year, with Internet Explorer 3.0 arriving in 1996. That fancy blue “e” logo made it’s debut with Internet Explorer 3.0, which also supported some CSS, the ability to display images in the browser, and more. It wasn’t until Internet Explorer 4.0 that Microsoft introduced the Trident engine, which has been used in the browser until now. Internet Explorer 4.0 was bundled with Windows 98, which ended up skyrocketing the browser’s market share and being a catalyst in the death of Netscape.Internet Explorer 5.0 was rolled out in 1999, while Internet Explorer 6.0 was made available with Windows XP in 2001. Internet Explorer 6 survived nearly six years as the big dog in the yard — mainly because if you purchased a new Windows XP computer, you got Internet Explorer 6.0 too. Internet Explorer 7 was released in 2006, and featured the introduction of tabbed browsing (wow!), support for RSS, and protection against phishing attacks. This is the time when Firefox emerged from the fine people at Mozilla.Internet Explorer 8.0 was released in 2009, now going head to head against both Mozilla Firefox and Google’s own browser Chrome. Around this time, Microsoft faced issues in Europe about browser bundling and eventually had to offer a “browser ballot” to let consumers decide what browser they wanted to use in Windows 7.Internet Explorer 9 was launched in 2011 and was the first browser since the release of Internet Explorer 2.0 to not be bundled with a new operating system. Instead, when Internet Explorer 9 was released, you could simply download it seperately for your operating system. Internet Explorer 10 hit the web in 2012, and was the default browser in Windows 8 — eventually being made available to Windows 7 users too.Finally, in late 2013, Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer — version 11. Oh how times have changed. Here we are in 2015 with Microsoft Edge, the Redmond giant’s new browser for Windows 10, having dethroned Internet Explorer as the new browser of choice for Windows. Even the Trident engine has been forked into something new called EdgeHTML. After 20 years of service, Internet Explorer is finally retired.Happy 20th Birthday, Internet Explorer! Thanks for all the great work you’ve done, but I’ve got it from here ;) pic.twitter.com/AsfUQ7OhDt— Microsoft Edge (@MicrosoftEdge) August 16, 2015As Internet Explorer celebrates its 20th birthday today, lets take time to reflect on the early days. Internet Explorer was an integral part of the evolution of the internet, so here’s to a browser that may be retired, but will never be forgotten.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezsez Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 And its still the best and most user friendly Browser there is, Simple and un complicated :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballistic Gelatin Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 If Internet Explorer was a dog, it'd be 140 years old. It's old, feeble and won't learn new tricks. If it was assigned to guard your house (your system), it'd let in burglars (malware) with a smile and a wag. ^_^Time to shoot the 'dog' and be done with it. :guns: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ballistic Gelatin Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 And its still the best and most user friendly Browser there is, Simple and un complicated :)Wrong. It's a big, honkin' piece of :shit:, regardless of its historic 'pedigree'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeSmithG Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Happy birthday Internet Explorer -- we've really grown to hate you over the years ''we've really grown to hate you over the years'' that is your opinion, do not speak for me in your dislike of something.I.E. is currently the best and most secure browser, always will be the best, that is my opinion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 Happy birthday Internet Explorer -- we've really grown to hate you over the years ''we've really grown to hate you over the years'' that is your opinion, do not speak for me in your dislike of something.I.E. is currently the best and most secure browser, always will be the best, that is my opinion!I wouldn't know I've not used it for a default since like 2006 when I was still a noob once I found ABP and Firefox and seen it had way less vulnerabilities than IE i never looked back. It may be OK for people who dont use addons . I have like 20 addons + like 10 user scripts witch none of them work in IE 11 or Edge ATM. I also converted my moms over to Firefox as well . :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amigaspace Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Guess there's still people that consider Windows Vista and ME the greatest OSes to ever exist, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeSmithG Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Happy birthday Internet Explorer -- we've really grown to hate you over the years ''we've really grown to hate you over the years'' that is your opinion, do not speak for me in your dislike of something. I.E. is currently the best and most secure browser, always will be the best, that is my opinion!I wouldn't know I've not used it for a default since like 2006 when I was still a noob once I found ABP and Firefox and seen it had way less vulnerabilities than IE i never looked back. It may be OK for people who dont use addons . I have like 20 addons + like 10 user scripts witch none of them work in IE 11 or Edge ATM. I also converted my moms over to Firefox as well . :P The word is n00b not noob. was around on the net from 1993, so used a browser before I.E. Netscape (first for windows), which was taken by A.O.L. and retired at version, 9.0.0.6 I enjoyed using it back in the day, then I.E. appeared and I changed sides. I still have it installed out of nostalgia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 The word is n00b not noob.was around on the net from 1993, so used a browser before I.E. Netscape (first for windows), which was taken by A.O.L. and retired at version, 9.0.0.6 I enjoyed using it back in the day, then I.E. appeared and I changed sides.I still have it installed out of nostalgia.No actually its noob there no words with 0 that's a number http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Noob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 Guess there's still people that consider Windows Vista and ME the greatest OSes to ever exist, too.ME was a the worse copy of windows there ever was . Really vista is not that bad if you were install it now . Back then people were trying to upgrade it on computers there were not designed for it and no apps were hardly compatible with it . Buy the time they got the kinks out and apps became compatible Win 7 came out. It got a bad name like Windows 8 did because it changed the way things are. Windows 7 is not very different than Vista SP2 . Microsoft had one O/S that done good and one that done bad regardless if it was really bad or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amigaspace Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Really vista is not that bad if you were install it now . Back then people were trying to upgrade it on computers there were not designed for it and no apps were hardly compatible with it . Buy the time they got the kinks out and apps became compatible Win 7 came out. It got a bad name like Windows 8 did because it changed the way things are. Windows 7 is not very different than Vista SP2 .I think it got a bad name mostly because it was sluggish, horribly slow and the hard freakin' disk kept working almost to the max the whole time the PC was on. Not because it changed the looks or other stuff. It just didn't work properly. Yes, 7 looks very much like Vista but it plays and feels very differently. (btw 10 is faster than 8.x, and quite faster than 7 - 8.0 is faster than 8.1 and I like it more). :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty6100 Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Maybe IE needs a jolt of "Virtual Viagra" to get the browsing speed "up". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Cannot deny any way, the slowest and most unstable is still the Google Chrome x64.Also, it takes a tremendous resource. A ghastly thing.Only Edge is worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 18, 2015 Author Share Posted August 18, 2015 Really vista is not that bad if you were install it now . Back then people were trying to upgrade it on computers there were not designed for it and no apps were hardly compatible with it . Buy the time they got the kinks out and apps became compatible Win 7 came out. It got a bad name like Windows 8 did because it changed the way things are. Windows 7 is not very different than Vista SP2 .I think it got a bad name mostly because it was sluggish, horribly slow and the hard freakin' disk kept working almost to the max the whole time the PC was on. Not because it changed the looks or other stuff. It just didn't work properly. Yes, 7 looks very much like Vista but it plays and feels very differently. (btw 10 is faster than 8.x, and quite faster than 7 - 8.0 is faster than 8.1 and I like it more). :)Windows Vista and Windows 7 Runs on the same Kernel .. Win 7 has a different GUI with some driver updates. and a smaller footpriint is all . People were trying to install vista on xp machines that weren't even able to handle Aero glass. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amigaspace Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Windows Vista and Windows 7 Runs on the same Kernel .. Win 7 has a different GUI with some driver updates. and a smaller footpriint is all . People were trying to install vista on xp machines that weren't even able to handle Aero glass. :PI basically agree with you, but still: it's not that most of the machines of the time were not ready for it, but the opposite: Vista wasn't ready for almost all of those machines - and not because it was ahead of its time, but due to bad design. What Microsoft is doing now is much better, a lesson well-learned: every new OS is 'lighter' on hardware resources and runs well on more and more older machines (if drivers are available of course). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 18, 2015 Author Share Posted August 18, 2015 Windows Vista and Windows 7 Runs on the same Kernel .. Win 7 has a different GUI with some driver updates. and a smaller footpriint is all . People were trying to install vista on xp machines that weren't even able to handle Aero glass. :PI basically agree with you, but still: it's not that most of the machines of the time were not ready for it, but the opposite: Vista wasn't ready for almost all of those machines - and not because it was ahead of its time, but due to bad design. What Microsoft is doing now is much better, a lesson well-learned: every new OS is 'lighter' on hardware resources and runs well on more and more older machines (if drivers are available of course).They done this with windows 7 . I have a machine that came Vista new and it runs well with Vista or Windows7 .But with windows 10 installed it suffers from a slow boot so i put Win 7 back in tell they maybe get most of the bugs out. Many people that had older computers upgraded to Win 10 just to find out it booted slow as molasses. If you dont get just as good are better service out of win 10 why bother ? Win 10 is just a bunch of hype really it still has a lot of bugs .I still have it on my windows 8 machine it boots OK .But still it has a ways to go before it becomes as stable as win 8.1 . Win 7 did not become the number #1 O/S tell after it been out for some years and SP1 came out and it became very stable. The only thing that's driving people to install win 10 is the fact its free right now in one year it will fizzle out . People installing it has already slowed down . In 2 to 4 years they will be a new version of win 10 witch will be a big upgrade to what we have now and it want be free and most will be stuck on 1st edition. The way I understand it they will never be a Win 11 and they will just do new editions sort of like win 98 was . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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