A Korean young man designs a grave for "Internet Explorer", which was stopped by "Microsoft"
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, which was officially discontinued by Microsoft, 27 years after its launch.
Pictures of this strange “burial” spread widely across social networks, especially through Reddit, which its users liked tens of thousands of times.
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 letter “e” that appeared on hundreds of millions of computers for many years around the world, accompanied by the phrase “it was a good tool to download other browsing systems.”
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." According to the specialized website "Kinsta", according to "Sky News Arabia".
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.
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.
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