In news that is deeply upsetting to your Mum and anyone trying to download Google Chrome, Microsoft is ~finally~ shutting down its Internet Explorer browser after 26 years on the market.
Microsoft Daddy (and soon-to-be divorcee) Bill Gates and the big bosses at the company have announced that the web browser, which first launched in *checks notes* 1995, will shut down on the 15th of June 2022. According to a Microsoft blog post, the latest version of the program will be retired next year and no longer supported by most versions of Windows 10.
“The future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge,” they wrote. “Not only is Microsoft Edge a faster, more secure and more modern browsing experience than Internet Explorer, but it is also able to address a key concern: compatibility for older, legacy websites and applications.”
Understandably, the news has reminded everyone of our childhood internet browser from the ’00s back when we literally hooked the internet into our veins (and wall sockets). Oh, and Internet Explorer cakes.
immensely surprised to find out that dora the explorer is internet explorer's grand daughter
— DON कि YETi? (@donkiyeti) May 18, 2021
will someone please think of the Internet Explorer cakes pic.twitter.com/LEjMgHPV8W
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) May 19, 2021
"If internet explorer is brave enough to ask you to be your default browser, you're brave enough to ask that girl out"
~Abraham Lincoln
1862— Flacko???? (@miles__69) May 13, 2021
"The future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge"
That's like saying that the future of my wife is another woman with a different name.
— Paul Thurrott (@thurrott) May 19, 2021
RIP Internet Explorer, you were the best at downloading Chrome. ????
— Shredline ???? (@RedlineWusky) May 19, 2021
Personally, while it confirmed something the rest of us all knew (Internet Explorer is bad and it should feel bad), it left me wondering something else: will this be the end of the cringe-worthy early 2000’s era of internet browser memes, too?
Class, for a good example of what I’m talking about, please turn to page 22 of your PDF textbooks, AKA the images below.
Remember Philosoraptor? How about Overly Attached Girlfriend or the head of Valve, Gabe Newell? Unironically calling things epic? Using the cursed troll face? Well, Internet Explorer does and now that it’s going they should, too. Throw all this shit in the Recycle Bin and delete it. Permanently.
If, for some bonkers reason, you already miss the halcyon days of IE telling you it’s “stopped working” for loading more than two tabs, you’ll be pleased to know that Microsoft’s somewhat better browser, Microsoft Edge, has now well and truly taken its place.
Personally, I’ll miss Internet Explorer. It was a real time capsule of internet culture and how awkwardly endearing and embarrassing we can all be online. And, just like seeing old photos of me from high school, I have lived ever since in a constant state of we do not see it.
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