The Internet Explorer Browser on This Day in History

This day in history: Internet Explorer 3, the third major version of Internet Explorer, was released on this day in 1996, for Microsoft Windows and on January 8, 1997, for Apple Mac OS.

Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a discontinued series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft which was used in the Windows line of operating systems and it is replaced by the Chromium version of Microsoft Edge. Starting in 1995, it was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year. Later versions were available as free downloads, or in-service packs, and included in the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows. Microsoft spent over US$100 million per year on Internet Explorer in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people involved in the project by 1999.

Internet Explorer was once the most widely used web browser, attaining a peak of 95% usage share by 2003. This came after Microsoft used bundling to win the first browser war against Netscape, which was the dominant browser in the 1990s. Its usage share has since declined with the launch of Firefox (2004) and Google Chrome (2008), and with the growing popularity of mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS that do not support Internet Explorer. Estimates for Internet Explorer's market share in 2022 are about 0.38% across all platforms, or by StatCounter's numbers ranked 10th.

In my opinion, Internet Explorer had the best name, and the best logo.

Many web browsers have come and gone over the years, such as Mosaic, Lynx, Netscape, Amaya, NeoPlanet, AOL Explorer, Agora, Rockmelt....the first browser being the WorldWideWeb (later renamed Nexus) which was discontinued in 1994.

The top web browsers now are:

Google Chrome

Microsoft Edge

Firefox

Safari

Samsung Internet

I mainly use Vivaldi, Opera, Brave and Maxthon and I still use Seamonkey because it comes with an html editor.

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