Internet Explorer, the famous browser from Microsoft, will no longer be supported from today. Anyone who tries to use it starting tomorrow will automatically be directed to Microsoft Edge, the new browser developed by the company owned by Bill Gates.
It was back in 1995 when the browser entered computers all over the world. After all, the same Gates he did not believe in the potential of the internet (even the best, sometimes, are wrong), which he considered as mere curiosity. The facts proved him wrong and he was forced to run for cover.
In those years, in fact, Netscape Navigator reigned supreme, the first web browser ever made. The arrival of Internet Explorer, thanks to the combination with the Windows operating system, quickly caused the users of Navigator to collapse and, in 2008, it closed.
Then came Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and many other browsers which, slowly, sanctioned the death of the never too high-performance program from Microsoft. The bad name of Internet Explorer, among other things, is also affecting the new Edge: it is, in fact, only in fourth place of the most used browsers in the world.
In any case, in recent years, Internet Explorer who, we remember, is retiring today after a career that lasted for just under 27 years, it had become a real meme. If something took a lifetime to load something or understand it, the association became practically immediate.
This, however, did not prevent Microsoft’s browser from entering the history of computing, also thanks to a commercial conduct that is not exactly crystal clear. Conduct sanctioned by the antitrust which, however, did not allow the rival of the time, Netscape Navigator, to escape.
Thus ends today with the closure of Internet Explorer, the first era, if you like, the Internetto. An era that, in those a little later in the years, has left many memories and, we are sure, a lot of nostalgia, since they are moments that, probably fortunately, will never return.
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