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Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

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Post by hadrien01 »

maaaats wrote: post #9

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

http://example.com should work, it doesn't force https

Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

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Post by kawsper »

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?

The Netscape loading logo is the one I feel very nostalgic about, if we can have animated gravestones when I die, that is the one I want to have on mine https://imgur.com/a/G6quKu8

Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

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Post by hajile »

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…

IE4 -- 11MB IE5 -- 56MB IE6 -- 13MB

Their sizes seem to be off (or including something extra). But there definitely is a huge change in IE5 requirements. I'm guessing that's related to the US v Microsoft antitrust bundling lawsuit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_4#System_req...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_5#System_and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_6#System_req...

Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

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Post by golfer »

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?

Connections were much slower back then. Sometimes you'd go a few seconds or more without anything happening on the screen. The loading animation was nice so you knew your browser wasn't frozen.

Re: Internet Explorer Browser Collection

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Post by maaaats »

hadrien01 wrote: post #11
maaaats wrote: post #9

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

http://example.com should work, it doesn't force https

Can't get it to work. But http://matsemann.com works. I think the difference is that my domain works even without a "Host" header.

Edit: Not quite correct that it works. My domain responds with a different dummy-page in IE 1.5. I get the same dummy-page with curl

  curl http://matsemann.com -i --http1.0 -v -H 'Host:'
Difference being it's served as 200, while same command for example.com with no host gives 404.

I think the web is just broken without host headers, as too much is running on the same ips / through routers before touching the real underlying page.

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