Internet Explorer may have hurt his daily life, but a computer engineer in South Korea still decided to build a tombstone, whose images have gone viral, in memory of the giant’s emblematic web browser American Microsoft.
Unlike many other countries, South Korea, which has one of the fastest Internet networks in the world, remains tied to Internet Explorer, which Microsoft officially announced on Wednesday after 27 years of service. .
In honor of the navigator’s death, engineer Kiyoung Jung, 38, placed the tombstone on the roof of a cafe in the southern city of Gyeongju in South Korea.
On the dark-colored stele can be seen the famous letter e, which has long been entrenched on the screens of hundreds of millions of computers, accompanied by an epitaph: This is a great tool to download other browsers.
On the Internet, photos of this monument have spread quickly, where users of the social media site Reddit, for example, have approved them thousands of times.
A popular browser in South Korea
After its launch in August 1995, Explorer quickly replaced the first major browser in Internet history, Netscape, to the point of weighing more than 90% of the sector in the early 2000s. But the browser has also caused outrage for many. people, who quarreled with him because of his slowness and his recurring problems.
With the exception of South Korea, it was made compulsory for the use of banking services and online purchases until around 2014, as all of this online activity requires that sites use ActiveX, an extension that made by Microsoft.
And until recently, it remained the default browser for many Korean government sites, according to the local press.
As a software engineer and web developer, Kiyoung Jung suffered continues to be at work due to compatibility issues with Internet Explorer, he told AFP.
In South Korea, he explained, when you work in web development, you always expect it to work well with Internet Explorer, rather than Chrome.American browser giant Google now monopolizes three quarters of the global browser market, according to expert site Kinsta.
However, sites that work correctly in other browsers, such as Safari or Chrome, can show a lot of problems with Explorer, Mr. continued. Jung, who was forced into many hours of additional work to ensure compatibility. sites in question.
The end, June 15, 2022
Microsoft announced in 2021 the end of Explorer, which will have eleven consecutive versions.
In practice, it is still possible to use Explorer, but Microsoft will no longer make any updates or changes to the browser, which launched in August 1995.
On the one hand, Mr. Jung that he is pleased with the announced end of Microsoft’s browser. But on the other hand, he also claims that he feels nostalgia and emotion at the idea of losing the Explorer, which he experienced at its apogee.
Hence his idea of building a tombstone for the deceased navigator. People are often pleased that machines don’t have souls, but we as humans really give them our hearts.the engineer explained to AFP, quoting Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki.
Mr. said today. Jung that he was happy with the enthusiasm generated by his fake tombstone and specified that he and his brother, who is the owner of the cafe, were planning to leave it on the roof of the building indefinitely. Very excited to make others laughhe concludes.
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Source: Radio-Canada
