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What were your memories of using it?

This wont get any response since nobody clicks on anything called Internet Explorer anymore.

Slow and massively infected

I remember when IE transformed into Sailor Moon for some reason. That still is the damnist thing. And what is worse is the animation is better than what we see today on real show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHTUlF7NA2o

I had no particular complaints about it. Sure, it would be feature-lacking nowadays, but I had far fewer outright issues with it than I did with, say, Safari on all the Mac computers there would usually be at school -- at least back in that time period. (Maybe Safari isn't as bad nowadays, idk.)

cjsdowg posted...

I remember when IE transformed into Sailor Moon for some reason. That still is the damnist thing. And what is worse is the animation is better than what we see today on real show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHTUlF7NA2o

lol wtf, i really wanted to read the comments on this one.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/6/6/AAfPwcAAEtey.jpg

I only used it at school. It was never our preferred browser at home

too many popups

yes I am visiting a HTTPS site, as all sites should be
why do you need to popup saying that I am visiting a secure site, which should be the default state of a website

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It could be nostalgia, but I don't recall Netscape being terrible to use.

On topic, Internet Explorer fractured the internet, and until rather recently there were websites that would only work with IE. That's part of the reason it took so long for Microsoft to kill it off.

CSS's box-sizing property exists entirely because of IE, and box-sizing:border-box is one of the very few things IE got right.
https://www.w3schools.com/csS/css3_box-sizing.asp

There was a time where I preferred IE to Firefox, mostly due to IE being faster and having a more familiar UI. That did change eventually though.

As a dumb kid, I ended up downloading some "Comet Cursor Plus" ActiveX extension off of some forum and ended up with hundreds of viruses on my PC

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/9/5/AAfOu0AAEt7X.jpg

It was alright, I always felt bad when I would get a new laptop/desktop and open up IE to download Firefox and it was practically begging me not to...

Questionmarktarius posted...

CSS's box-sizing property exists entirely because of IE, and box-sizing:border-box is one of the very few things IE got right.
https://www.w3schools.com/csS/css3_box-sizing.asp

Browser extensions/addons started with IE4.

itcheyness posted...

It was alright, I always felt bad when I would get a new laptop/desktop and open up IE to download Firefox and it was practically begging me not to...

LOL all the pop-ups that said "WAIT! Give us a try first! We're good now! Promise!" were pretty funny >_> IE was only good for downloading browsers and for 1% of webpages that didn't work on Firefox for some reason, like college portals and such.

It was basically the only thing I knew until 2005 when GameFAQs taught me about Firefox. Been on Firefox (and for a brief while Pale Moon) ever since.

Jupiter posted...

It was basically the only thing I knew until 2005 when GameFAQs taught me about Firefox. Been on Firefox (and for a brief while Pale Moon) ever since.

Same. I got convinced to download Firefox 2.0 when it released and I haven't looked back since >_>

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/1/2/AAfOu0AAEt7o.jpg

I kinda miss when every new version of Firefox was a once in a few years event. Now they pop out a new version every couple of weeks >_>

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Same. I got convinced to download Firefox 2.0 when it released and I haven't looked back since >_>

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/1/2/AAfOu0AAEt7o.jpg

Yup, started with version 2.0 as well! I remember when the differences between version numbers was pretty big lol. Then after a while, they just started coming out left and right.

Jupiter posted...

Yup, started with version 2.0 as well! I remember when the differences between version numbers was pretty big lol. Then after a while, they just started coming out left and right.

Yeah, it wasn't as special anymore. I remember people hated the redesign for v4 I think lol.

Slow, but worked, and with few issues. Never got a virus. Think I last used it around 2010 though.

IE, very good at breaking your website.

A programming class where i must draw a 3D room and objects inside it, and the teacher insist we must display it in IE.

It's been almost 20 years, i don't even remember how i make it.

Ugh, bad memories of coding HTML and JavaScript for IE5 and IE5.5 before jQuery.

...and IE has its own quirky version of javascript, so your code doesn't work anywhere else.

i was more of a Netscape explorer user than i used Internet Explorer back in 1998 and 1999

Netscape was faster and quicker when going to websites

IE for the Mac was actually pretty good. It was one of the first to have tabs.