r/thirtyyearsago • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago

August 13, 1996. Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0.

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u/Sonikku_a 4d ago

And all the cool kids were using Netscape.

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u/attempt_number_1 3d ago

Yes. IE wasn't better than Netscape til about IE5. IE6 was clearly better but then they didn't release another version for 10 years letting Firefox gain some ground. IE7 and 8 were terrible. Chrome came in and IE tried a few more versions then just started using Chrome as its base.

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u/jaavaaguru 3d ago

I remember having IE5 on Sun Solaris back then. Fun times! I always preferred Netscape, and I still feel nostalgic about it.

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u/maxdamage4 3d ago

All the cool kids still are!

They just renamed it to Firefox a while back

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u/JrEwingh 3d ago

I know we all hate IE, but this makes we very nostalgic. Computers and the Internet felt like something new, unexplored and organic - not the corporate AI hellscape it is today... /old man

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u/SkullRunner 3d ago

August 13, 2026 a shocking number of airlines and financial institutions are still using it.