Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Is Now 21 Years Old

[Jack]

Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s old-school browser that has been around for so long, is now 21 years old, as the software giant rolled it out for the first time on August 16, 1995.

Internet Explorer 1 made its debut in Windows 95 and was part of the Internet Jumpstart Kit in Microsoft Plus for the operating system. What’s interesting is that Internet Explorer 1 was the creation of a team with only six workers, but which rapidly expanded in the following years.

Now at version 11, Internet Explorer is no longer Microsoft’s top priority, as the company has introduced a new browser called Edge that’s offered as the default option on its new Windows operating systems.


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[Cohen]

21 years of being used to install other browsers.

 

[Viking]

I can't even remember.

 

[LASER_oneXM]

..never used IE on my own machines... . I started my "online life" (in the 90's) with Netscape/Mozilla (later Firefox): IE had already at the "begining" of the internet a quite bad reputation

 

[Lucent Warrior]

Its been a while for sure. I rarely used it except for those occasions back then where websites would not respond correctly to other browsers.

 

[frogboy]

I am with @Cohen with 100%. @Klipsh got me to open a some time ago not sure of the reason now, but not memorable for sure just to check something from memory.

 

[Vasudev]

Its ironic that IE is 3 years younger than me.

 

[frogboy]

Its ironic that IE is 3 years younger than me.

And 33 years younger than me.

 

[Vasudev]

And 53 years younger than me.

But DOS/Windows is older than me.

 

[frogboy]

But DOS/Windows is older than me.

Changed mine to 33 years younger. Oops.

 

[LabZero]

Well, IE is 3 years older than me!

 

[JB007]

I use it time to time when I have problem to connect with Chrome

 

[SecretKeeper]

And I'm one year younger than it.

I actually don't remember the last time I used IE.. maybe during the mid-XP days before I found out there was Firefox and Opera.

 

[Andytay70]

And 33 years younger than me.

WOW 33!

 

[NekoHr]

I used IE when I first got online til Firefox 0.6 came out (it was called Firebird than) and have been with Firefox since although I have backup browsers just in case.

Funny thing is I have to use IE on my work form time to time to connect to and manage broadcast encoders and these only work OK with older IE so I have old WinXP notebook with older IE6 for that.

 

[jamescv7]

Well I.E is already a bottleneck browser due to numerous issue way back before, Microsoft Edge manage to cope up those pesky issues however no match on other browser due to performance wise where IE came as last as always.

 

[JHomes]

I'm going to take her out on a date, show her the town; then leave her for the more attractive and younger Firefox.

 

[Aura]

Internet Explorer is my default browser

At work that is. Some of the websites and programs I use only work in Internet Explorer, so I don't have the choice.

 

[ravi prakash saini]

I voted I cannot remember because there is no suitable option given,however I used it 16 years ago.