Internet Explorer Has Finally Died, So Get Ready To Show Your Dad How To Use Chrome
"RIP to the #1 Chrome installer of all time."
I regret to inform you that you’re going to have to show your dad how to download Google Chrome today because Internet Explorer has finally died.
After 27 years, the web browser that served as a gateway drug to MySpace, MSN, and illegally downloading songs off LimeWire that turned out to be Bill Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky speech is finally being laid to rest.
That’s right, the browser that you probably used the very first time you logged on to the world wide web — blissfully unaware that one day you would lose the ability to ever log the fuck off — is being replaced with Microsoft Edge.
Microsoft announced last year that Internet Explorer’s final day would be June 15, 2022.
“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,” general manager of Microsoft Edge Enterprise Sean Lyndersay said in a blog post in May 2021.
Let’s be real here, Internet Explorer was not a good browser, which is why most of us pivoted to Google Chrome or another non-shit browser more than a decade ago. But as the portal to the online world that gave us all our first dose of internet-fuelled serotonin, many are sad to see the browser finally hang up its boots.
not internet explorer joining the 27 club https://t.co/vYWbTtIMDO
— mount bellyache (@mountbellyache) June 15, 2022
Sure, it was the browser we all just used to download other browsers, but we will never forget her.
how am I supposed to download other browsers now that internet explorer is gone?
— schmerkle madurkle (@schmerkles) June 16, 2022
Today marks the official end of Microsoft’s support for Internet Explorer. RIP to the #1 Chrome installer of all time
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) June 15, 2022
Thankfully, it’ll likely be a few years before Internet Explorer actually gets the memo and shuts down.
Today Microsoft clicks 'close' on internet explorer.
Tomorrow it'll still be closing.
Next week microsoft will press ctrl alt del and force stop application.
— Josh Strife Hayes (@JoshStrifeHayes) June 15, 2022
is Internet Explorer ever truly dead? pic.twitter.com/KQGndprUxn
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 14, 2022
Internet Explorer is not responding…
— Internet Explorer Parody (@Fastest_Browser) June 15, 2022
Honestly, she’s rejecting the girlboss mentality and retiring at 27, which is something we should all be aspiring to. An icon, if you will.
much like Internet Explorer, I am ready to retire
— the elder emo (@theelderemox) June 15, 2022
I guess we should all just be glad that this guy no longer has to live in fear of the Internet Explorer logo murdering his family.
I use to have nightmares of the internet explorer logo floating and killing my whole family and everything I loved.
— Yanni Paloukas (@YanniP2701) June 16, 2022
RIP Internet Explorer, gone but forever living in our painfully online memories.