TBF 1/2 of them weren't even born...

So what? We've had writing for thousands of years, and it's a perfect way to preserve historical lessons for the future ~losslessly.

I'm a fairly young person but I've had a bit of interest in the history of computing from Unix onwards. It's all documented and out there in public archives, accessible by anyone. It ignited an interest and let me identify more deeply with my profession, plus it highlighted just how much the history of computing is cyclical (especially the mainframe->thin client->mainf^Wcloud cycle), and therefore shown me how much of the old history we can dust off and put into good use again in the modern times.

History is context. One is doing themselves a disservice by not doing some cursory reading around it.

Not sure why your comment is being downvoted, most of my friends think I am paranoid when I say we shouldn't only support chrome. To them it's the browser that always works whereas the others are a PITA to support.

Which is why the current situation is stable and the IE6 situation got fixed. Nobody liked developing for IE6, it was a pain in the ass since it was so shit. But people are perfectly happy developing for chrome.

IE6 was far behind the curve on features, Chrome is way ahead. The situation isn't comparable at all.

That's not the whole story. IE was innovative (albeit through embrace and extend) until they won and stagnated.

IE could stagnate since they bundled it with their OS, meaning people on an old OS used the old IE meaning IE6 lived on for over a decade. Chrome is dominant since people download it and people receive free updates, so the situation isn't comparable there either.

The situation when every webdev was forced to support IE6 would be like if developers today had to support Chrome from 2011.

Chrome is bundled with Android (billions of devices) and when you install a lot of software on Windows like antivirus they bundle Chrome unless you opt-out.

Not the same but pretty close.

Weird I never see chrome preinstalled. It's always a generic "internet" app