Internet Explorer is evil (1996)
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Internet Explorer is evil (1996)
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#3Wow haven’t seen that back button in a while
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#4Man, seeing Bill Gates with horns and in a pentagram sure hits different in 2021 due to COVID/antivax and QAnon conspiracy theories than it did in 1996.
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#5Check out the "Firefox Doom Party" screen shots: http://toastytech.com/doom/ffdoompics.html
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#6If you want some IE nostalgia, here's a visual history of IE starting in 1995 (v1.0):
https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/internet-explorer
Factoid: There were versions of IE for both Mac and Solaris.
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#7Man, seeing Bill Gates with horns and in a pentagram sure hits different in 2021 due to COVID/antivax and QAnon conspiracy theories than it did in 1996.
Prescient :)
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#8"In conclusion, people are finally beginning to understand the hard way:
Web Browsers really make poor client application runtimes for all but the most basic of things. ActiveX is a security nightmare and counter to making cross-platform applications. The web is a constantly changing and evolving standard separate from Microsoft or any specific operating system, as such implementing an application for just one specific browser and version with no intent to keep it updated is just asking for disaster. Tying local help files or other local content to a "live" web browser that may change in functionality is a bad idea.
But, nobody ever listened to anything I have to say."
Narrator: And nobody listened to anything he said.
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#9Ha ha this reminds me of the first website I made. It was a site about Green Day. Of course, I built it on angelfire and it was chock full of gifs and midi music playing in the background. A lot of nostalgia seeing this.
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#10"In conclusion, people are finally beginning to understand the hard way: Web Browsers really make poor client application runtimes for all but the most basic of things. ActiveX is a security nightmare and counter to making cross-platform applications. The web is a constantly changing and evolving standard separate from Microsoft or any specific operating system, as such implementing an application for just one specif…
To this day I detest sites that require javascript, inject tens or hundreds of MB into cache, and make ridiculous demands of rendering.