Although, IE browser is now "dead". It is not so much "IE is dead" as "IE has fulfilled its historical mission". I think this can better reflect one thing-feelings. After all, IE has been born for 27 years. For most netizens in China, its service time is basically as long as 20 years. During the period, I left a deep impression on netizens, especially for the post-80s and 90s, IE is also a part of a beautiful "youthful memory".

On June 15, 2022, IE officially retired, and netizens expressed their disappointment, "Ye Qingjie!" 、? "This is the end of an era, but also the witness of generations of youth", and the memories brought by IE are actually the development history of IE and China Internet.

Here, we might as well recall together. ...

A Brief History of Internet and IE in China What needs to be explained here is that the Internet was born in the United States and was established in 1962. It was not until 1994 that China was allowed to join the Internet and successfully completed the Internet access.

1997, recognized as the first year of Internet in China, China established three most famous Internet companies in the early days, namely Sohu, Netease and Sitong Li Fang (the predecessor of Sina). This is the 1.0 era of the Internet in China.

1998, Tencent was established, connecting "people";

1999, founded by Alibaba, connecting "people and goods";

Founded in 2000, Baidu is connected with "people and information". China Internet entered the 2.0 era.

With the rapid development of Internet in China, IE has also ushered in its "peak of life"!

1August 995 16, released by Microsoft ie 1.0;

Subsequently, IE2.0 was released and became the default browser attached to all new versions of Windows operating systems, and the Windows operating system at this time was the famous Windows 95.

1996, released by IE3.0. With the strong background of Windows 95 operating system, IE browser quickly expanded its market share and beat Netscape Navigator browser in one fell swoop. ?

With the release of IE4.0 in 1997, IE4.0 added active desktop, supported DHTML, and Outlook Express 4.0 was also included.

1999 IE5.0 was released, and IE5.0' s support for CSS 1 and CSS2 enhanced text rendering. ?

IE6.0 was released on 200 1, and it was also at this time that Microsoft made IE and Windows XP a golden combination, thus dominating the Internet for many years. By 2004, IE's market share reached the highest level of 95%, which happened to be a crucial period for the rapid growth of Internet in China.

With the release of IE7.0 in 2006, IE7.0 first existed as an application independent of the operating system. Microsoft also encourages users to abandon IE6.0 and upgrade IE browser to the latest version through various measures.

At the same time, the product Firefox 2.0 of Mozilla Firefox, the competitor of IE, also came out. Now it seems that after this time node, the dominant position of IE is gradually weakening.

In 2009, the controversial IE8.0 browser was released, although Microsoft claimed that IE was the fastest growing and most popular browser in the world. ?

However, Microsoft gradually slowed down the speed of IE update optimization, and IE browser was gradually labeled as slow, stuck, less functional and difficult to use, which was vomited by many netizens. "One of the 50 worst technological products in the history of science and technology" is the title given to IE by 20 1 1 netizens.

In the Internet market where the product iteration speed is amazing, Microsoft's slackness provides competitors with a good opportunity to surpass, and IE is not aware of the traffic dividend brought by the mobile Internet. At the same time, the Chrome browser was updated as many as 70 times in 10 years. In contrast, IE browser was only updated 4 times between IE 8 and IE 1 1! Google's Chrome has become the default browser for Android operating system, and IE has not even developed Android and iOS platform versions.

Long-term slack and negligence have caused poor user experience, large installation package, slow download speed, slow opening speed, slow response, single function, poor compatibility and poor security, all of which have become the negative comments that IE has been unable to get rid of, and finally have to gradually become a "past tense".

Time flIEs to 20 15 years, IE's market share has fallen below 20%, and Microsoft has to give up IE, and Microsoft Edge has been used to relay ie. At this point, Edge has become the default browser for the new Windows system, and IE's blue "e" logo has also been replaced with a smoother and more open new logo.

With the passage of time, more and more browsers have come to our side, such as Cheetah browser, Baidu browser, Sogou browser, Firefox browser, 360 browser, qq browser, UC browser, Ou Peng browser and 2345 browser. Faced with many faster, smarter and more obedient browsers, users have also discovered two other advantages of IE: they can download other browsers without downloading.

20 16, versions before IE 1 1 stopped the security update; 2065 438+08 Edge browser migrated from HTML kernel to competitor's Chrome kernel. In 2020, Microsoft announced that it would stop office's support for IE. In 20021year, Microsoft announced that IE would enter the historical stage; In June 2022, IE officially retired.

? The IE browser that has been with us has also come to an end. Its era is over, and a new browser appears. As users and beneficiaries, we hope they will get better and better. At the same time, I would like to pay tribute to countless browser developers and operators!