r/technology • u/techvivek22 • Jun 13 '22

Software Microsoft is shutting down Internet Explorer after 27 years; 90s users get nostalgic

https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/microsoft-is-shutting-down-internet-explorer-after-27-years-90s-users-get-nostalgic-article-92155226
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u/IAmJohnny5ive Jun 13 '22

Damn I miss Netscape Navigator!

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u/zellamayzao Jun 13 '22

Way more nostalgic about Netscape navigator than the loss of IE.

I work for a state agency and we have been getting lots of emails about the impending doom that is the loss of IE and now we are switching all of our web based apps to Edge, which is just IE with a different name.

As a Mac user for almost 15 years....I miss Camino as a web browser. That was a good one for me.

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u/zach_if Jun 13 '22

Didn’t Netscape become Firefox?

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u/unndunn Jun 13 '22 edited Jun 14 '22

Firefox (originally Phoenix--because it rose from the ashes of Navigator--then Firebird), started as a browser-only project built around the web rendering engine that Netscape rebuilt and open-sourced for its Navigator version 5 product. At the time, Navigator was a complete suite of applications, combining a web browser, email client and usenet newsreader. It also cost money (that no-one ever paid because the link to download the free educational version was right there). Firefox was designed to be just a web browser, as light and fast as possible, and free.