Microsoft Edge Team Celebrates the Twentieth Anniversary of Internet Explorer

O Microsoft Edge is the new darling browser of the ecosystem. All eyes are on it, and there are plenty of reasons: it's the default browser for Windows 10, is light, beautiful and elegant, full of functions and tricks, and we at SMT have already made a list of reasons for you to adopt Edge. But the giant of Redmond don't forget the veteran Internet Explorer.

O Internet Explorer 1.0, released on August 16, 1995, it was Microsoft's first browser. 20 years later the development team of Microsoft Edge decided to congratulate IE on its twentieth anniversary via Twitter.

Although 20 years is a short time in real life, on the internet it is almost an eternity. We can then consider IE practically a dinosaur. The team congratulates the navigator for all he has done, but hints that his end is near, much to our delight.

But why do they hate Internet Explorer so much?

Virtually every user these days hates Internet Explorer, but many don't know where the hate came from. It's not just because it doesn't support extensions or other perks of modern browsers, but because it was developed at a time when Microsoft didn't fully value user well-being.

In the 90's the internet was starting to become popular and until then the Netcape Navigator dominated as the main browser until the arrival of IE, already embedded in Windows and selected as the default browser. In addition to this maneuver, the ecosystem used features such as creating new HTML tags, such as the blink tag, which does this…

And such tags only worked in your browser, making developers at the time put those infamous little bars at the end of the site that said: “This site works best in Internet Explorer” and encourage their use.

The adoption of these practices practically fragmented the internet and was baptized as “War of Browsers”. Ultimately, the netcaspe lost and the ecosystem had practically created its own version of HTML.

To solve the mess, in 2004 a group started to develop a new version of the language, which we now know as HTML 5, which regulated and standardized the internet.

That was the beginning of the end of the war, but the hatred against IE endures to this day. Despite several attempts by the ecosystem After clearing your browser bar, the best alternative was to actually create a new one, which some still say is IE in disguise. For these and other reasons, we all hope he doesn't reach his twenty-first birthday.

And do you love or hate Internet Explorer?