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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by detritus on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:53PM (#27215003)
Oh, don't get me wrong - it was a Trojan Horse, and my first ever web browsing experience was on Navigator, so it was a hard-hearted appreciation at the time.

But from my stand point then, It Just Worked.

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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by ido on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:01AM (#27217239)
Same for me - I started browsing the web on Mosaic and quickly switched to Netscape. I hung on during the Netscape 4.x days but at some point couldn't deny how much better IE was (I think maybe even IE 4 was already as good or better than Netscape).

I switched to IE until the Mozilla suit released and later on switched to Firefox 0.something - it was amazing how fast it was compared to both IE6 and Mozilla.

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Re:Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022 by dotancohen on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:05PM (#27224791)
Some time around 2001 or 2002 I bought Opera (with tabs!) and that just made the internet usable.
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