Internet Explorer Browser Collection

#1

Post by Gwxz » Thu, May 09, 2019, 10:53 AM UTC

Internet Explorer Browser Collection
my-internet-explorer.com

Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

#2

Post by crehn » Thu, May 09, 2019, 11:35 AM UTC

That animated Windows logo in the IE status bar brings up a lot of memories. Did it have any real purpose?

Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

#3

Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 09, 2019, 11:37 AM UTC

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Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

#4

Post by userbinator » Thu, May 09, 2019, 11:38 AM UTC

crehn wrote: post #2

That animated Windows logo in the IE status bar brings up a lot of memories. Did it have any real purpose?

It's a loading indicator. A far more obvious one than the tiny spinning circles that seem popular today.

Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

#5

Post by mugsie » Thu, May 09, 2019, 11:42 AM UTC

It is missing 5.5 - I have memories of that being a kind of important version ...

Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

#6

Post by zapzupnz » Thu, May 09, 2019, 11:45 AM UTC

No Mac versions, pocket versions, console versions yet. I loved the Mac version back in the days before Safari, it was actually a pretty fantastic browser for the time.

Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

#7

Post by tonny747 » Thu, May 09, 2019, 11:45 AM UTC

It looks like it sourced its downloads from https://winworldpc.com/product/internet-explorer/.

Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

#8

Post by userbinator » Thu, May 09, 2019, 11:53 AM UTC

For some reason, that domain name arouses my suspicion... if I saw that in the search results I'd probably think "SEO spam site" and skip over it.

One of the obvious things you can see between the versions is the gradual trend of dumbing-down and flattening the UI, most apparent between 8 and 9. The older versions' UI give the impression that they are very customisable and powerful, while the newer ones seem to be implicitly saying "you have no control (anymore)." I'd love to use a browser with a newer rendering engine, but retain the old UI.

I also noticed the sizes are a little weird:

    IE1: 2.88MB
    IE2: 17.9MB
    IE3: 232MB(!?)
    IE4: 357MB
    IE5: 640MB
    IE6: 105MB
    IE7: 78MB
    IE8: 147MB
    IE9: 207MB
    IE10: 218MB
    IE11: 166MB

I remember using those older versions of IE on systems with hard drives smaller than that.

Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

#9

Post by maaaats » Thu, May 09, 2019, 11:55 AM UTC

Are the downloads the old, compiled code? The iexplore.exe in IE 1.5 says modified in 1996. And it runs on my Windows in 2019. That's a feat!

(Can't find any pages to open, though, guess it's too old http and possible tls stuff in the way?) Edit: Found some urls that worked

Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 09, 2019, 12:16 PM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #8

For some reason, that domain name arouses my suspicion... if I saw that in the search results I'd probably think "SEO spam site" and skip over it. One of the obvious things you can see between the versions is the gradual trend of dumbing-down and flattening the UI, most apparent between 8 and 9. The older versions' UI give the impression that they are very customisable and powerful , while the newer ones seem to be i…

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