In honor of the memory of “Internet Explorer”, which the American company “Microsoft” stopped supporting, a South Korean computer engineer built a “grave” for the browser.
Internet Explorer, which Microsoft officially terminated on Wednesday after 27 years of its launch, gained popularity among users in South Korea, which has one of the world’s fastest communication networks.
On the occasion of the end of the browser’s work, the 38-year-old engineer, Kyung Jong, erected a tombstone on the roof of a cafe in the city of Gyeongju, southern South Korea, with the famous “e” letter that appeared on hundreds of millions of computers for many years around the world, accompanied by the phrase “It was a good tool for downloading systems Other browsing.
Pictures of this strange “burial” spread widely across social networks, especially through “Redd”, whose users have liked it tens of thousands of times.
Kyung Jong said that in his work as a software engineer and website developer, he constantly struggled with compatibility issues between different programs due to Internet Explorer.
He added, “In South Korea, when working in the field of website development, you are often expected to provide a program that is compatible with Internet Explorer and not with Chrome,” the browser of the American giant Google, which currently accounts for three-quarters of the global market for browsers. According to the specialized Kinsta website.
Soon after its launch in August 1995, Explorer quickly surpassed its competitor, Netscape, the first browser in the history of the Internet, to the extent that it acquired more than 90 percent of the sector’s shares at the beginning of this century, but the browser declined strongly in recent years after many users complained From slow and frequent problems.
But this was not the case in South Korea, where the use of “Explorer” remained mandatory in banking services and e-commerce operations until about 2014.
Also, “Explorer” remained until a few years ago when the browser used automatically for many South Korean government websites, according to the local press.
Microsoft has announced since last year that June 15, 2022 is the date of stopping the work of the “Explorer” browser, which witnessed 11 consecutive versions.
In practice, it will still be possible to use Explorer, but Microsoft will stop updating or modifying it.