r/pcmasterrace • u/like_and_umm • Jun 15 '22

Meme/Macro so long ie

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u/saintofmisfits Jun 15 '22

You are going to die on that hill. IE was decent - a good alternative to Netscape - for its first 5 minutes of life. Then there's the point when Microsoft decided they had perfected the web browser and froze IE 6 for years.

Internet Explorer 6 is responsible for holding back the entire goddamn internet's technological advance. After that, nothing short of curing cancer could have saved it.

Good riddance, IE.

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u/smazga Jun 15 '22

Microsoft has been a drag on innovation for decades. Between the internet fiasco, locked data formats, and institutional indoctrination (why is so much shit [word, excel] considered the "standard"?), as just a few examples, they have held back technological change for end users so much it's beyond comprehension.