After 27 years of long service, Microsoft retired Internet Explorer on June 15.
After 27 years, Microsoft ended its full support for Internet Explorer on June 15. The browser served as the first gateway to the world wide web for millions around the world. It has a large fan base because it was one of the first browsers, we used to access the internet.
One such fan has erected an Internet Explorer gravestone in South Korea. For Jung Ki-young, a South Korean software engineer, the retirement of the web browser marked the end of a quarter-century love-hate relationship with the technology.
To commemorate its demise, he spent a month and 430,000 won ($330) designing and ordering a headstone with Explorer`s "e" logo and the English epitaph: "He was a good tool to download other browsers."
After the memorial went on show at a cafe run by his brother in the southern city of Gyeongju, a photo of the tombstone went viral.
Jung said the memorial showed his mixed feelings for the older software, which had played such a big part in his working life. "It was a pain in the ass, but I would call it a love-hate relationship because Explorer itself once dominated an era," he told Reuters.
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He said it took him longer to make sure his websites and online apps worked with Explorer than with other browsers.
But his customers kept asking him to make sure their websites looked good in Explorer, which remained the default browser in South Korean government offices and many banks for years.
Internet Explorer
Launched in 1995, Explorer became the world`s leading browser for more than a decade as it was bundled with Microsoft`s Windows operating system that came pre-installed in billions of computers.
But it started losing out to Google`s Chrome in the late 2000s and became a subject of countless internet memes, with some developers suggesting it was sluggish compared with its rivals.
(With inputs from Reuters)
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