Browser Wars: Round 1: Internet Explorer 6
Aalaap Ghag, Sep 30, 2005 1010 hrs IST
To novice PC users, getting on the Internet means connecting and starting Internet Explorer.

Aalaap Ghag, Sep 30, 2005 1010 hrs IST
To novice PC users, getting on the Internet means connecting and starting Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer is the most popular browser of all time. But it isn't popular because it's the best at what it does. It's popular because every computer running Windows has IE in it already. To novice PC users, getting on the Internet means connecting and starting Internet Explorer. It's like being a kid - you grow up with one television set and all you have to know to watch TV is to pick up the remote and press the red button. As a kid, you don't know anything about choices and you don't go to the electronics shop to get a new TV that can show multiple channels at the same time. Your TV is just there for you to use when you need it.
The Story So Far
Internet Explorer was born in 1995, when NCSA's Mosaic browser technology was licensed to Microsoft. Initially it didn't ship with Windows, but was available as an add-on in the Plus! Pack. It was the most vanilla browser you can imagine - and we guarantee that you probably can't imagine a world where there was no support for ActiveX, JavaScript or Flash. Though some may call them "the good old days..."

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