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Internet Explorer Turns 15

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-the-internet-has-never-been-the-same dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Software giant Microsoft's Internet Explorer turned 15 years old on Monday. The company recently said it would launch the Internet Explorer 9 public beta version on September 15, 2010. The software giant launched the first version of the browser, Internet Explorer 1, on August 16, 1995. It was a revised version of Spyglass Mosaic, which Microsoft had licensed from Spyglass Inc."

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  1. Re:IE turns 15... by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    >>>Cool... we can go to web pages!
    >>>Eh, I like Netscape better.

    Funny but not entirely accurate. Mosaic was the #1 browser of the day (1993-94), followed by Netscape which maintained its #1 spot until 1999 when Microsoft finally surpassed them.

    Here's my own personal history:
    - Mosaic for Amiga 500 (1993)
    - Awesome. It's like a BBS but worldwide. Or Usenet with pictures. Wish I had something faster than a 2 kbit/s modem.
    -
    - Netscape? No I'm sticking with Mosaic.
    - What's that? Netscape was written by the Mosaic guys? Okay I'll try it.
    - Microsoft has a web browser? Hahahahaha.
    -
    - Mozilla Netscape 6 - wow this is pretty bad, but IE 5 sucks worse.
    - Mozilla Firefox 1.0 - yay! And of course IE6 is still the suck.
    - Whaddya mean I "have" to use IE at work? Why won't you let me install Firefox? Frak. (I have tried every IE ever released but the only one I ever used was IE6, and only because the boss forces me to.)

    TRIVIA: Other ancient browsers for home PCs:

    17 years - Mosaic on the Commodore Amiga (April 1993)
    17 years - Cello for IBM PC (June 1993)
    16 years - DOSlynx for IBM PC (April 1994)

    16 years - iBrowse for Commodore Amiga (May 1994)
    16 years - IBMwebExplorer for OS/2 PC (October 1994)
    16 years - Netscape in December 1994 (succeeded by Mozilla/seaMonkey)

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