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Nov 6, 2026
ChrisHOST
That was going to be mine.
ChrisHOST
That came into my head last out of all the things thinking back, because it's just been such an ever-present since Internet Explorer 4, where it was the contemporary of it.
ChrisHOST
I can't remember.
ChrisHOST
But yes, it's definitely got to be Firefox for me, I think.
ChrisHOST
So yeah, that's broadly the lineage for me.
ChrisHOST
I was using my ISP-provided bundle browser I never used Netscape.
ChrisHOST
I used Internet Explorer.
ChrisHOST
But can you imagine a time where Firefox was just so incredibly like ahead of the game that even like anyone I met when I installed Firefox, they were like, this is so much better, so much faster, so much everything.
OwenPANELIST
They're like, we don't want people to keep doing this because we can't get ad revenue.
OwenPANELIST
This is back in the day when Google was just... just trying to take market share from Microsoft Internet Explorer, right? This was like...
TonyHOST
No, they were trying to take market share from AltaVista and SG.
OwenPANELIST
Yeah, Spider Crawler.
RyanHOST
Then it was...
RyanHOST
MSN, no? Then it was Internet Explorer.
RyanHOST
That was the timeline.
RyanHOST
Then Internet Explorer just dominated the world for a while.
RyanHOST
You only used that fucking E with the little swirl around it.
RyanHOST
That's how you went on the internet.
Herb HovenkampGUEST
By the way, Microsoft also, now Microsoft is 25 years old, Microsoft also declined the government's request to break up Microsoft, it instead issued a number of non-exclusivity decrees that basically told Microsoft that its licensing agreements with various implementers and apps could no longer be exclusive.
Herb HovenkampGUEST
And Internet Explorer's market share immediately began going down.
Herb HovenkampGUEST
And down and down and down, it was 90% at the time that decree was entered in 2001.
Herb HovenkampGUEST
It is 5% today.
Chris WaycampHOST
He's going to flop without Joey Fatone.
Kyle PhillipsHOST
It's like the Internet Explorer Twitter account.
Chris WaycampHOST
Hot sports take.
Chris WaycampHOST
The Tennessee Titans, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Philadelphia Phillies.
Mirko PetersHOST
Nobody wants to rebuild them from scratch.
Mirko PetersHOST
IE mode solves that without asking anyone to keep a dead browser alive.
Mirko PetersHOST
Here's how it works in plain terms.
Mirko PetersHOST
IE mode lets Edge run two engines at the same time, quietly choosing the right one for every page you open so you never have to think about it.
Mirko PetersHOST
The modern Chromium engine, which is the same open-source core that powers Google Chrome, handles every normal site you visit during the day.
Mirko PetersHOST
For the old ones, Edge switches to the Internet Explorer engine, so the page loads the way it always did.
Mirko PetersHOST
Only the sites a company specifically lists get this treatment.
Mirko PetersHOST
Everything else stays on the modern engine, so most of your day looks completely normal.
NeelamGUEST
Another one is a kosher AI.
NeelamGUEST
So a kosher is just like another search engine option, like Google or Yahoo or Bing internet explorer.
NeelamGUEST
Um, but they've got their own AI as well that works similar to the Google AI.
NeelamGUEST
So you can ask me questions like a normal search engine, but then you can actually toggle that AI on or off and all their profits go into climate action.
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NeelamGUEST
And SEO is just search engine optimization.
NeelamGUEST
So it's how well you work in a search engine.
NeelamGUEST
So like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Internet Explorer, how easy it is for people to find you when they're searching.
NeelamGUEST
If not searching for you specifically, but searching for like earrings, handmade earrings in Perth.
JoshHOST
Yes.
JoshHOST
And went to go on Internet Explorer.
JoshHOST
Not specifically that one, but I went on the internet.
JoshHOST
And I opened up my phone to realise...
JoshHOST
well no no no this is the problem so I don't know if anyone saw it but here's what I did afterwards so I got out of it threw your phone at the wall
speaker_0NARRATOR
oh my god
JoshHOST
not this again not very subtle not very subtle so open the internet explorer go whoops get out of it very quickly how do you keep saying internet explorer I don't know it's safari you have an iphone and it also wasn't even safari I think they make internet explorer for a phone it was google chrome I was on linux alright But I reckon I got out of it within three seconds.
JoshHOST
Yeah.
Zeynep TolanGUEST
And this is like, I'm now aging myself because this is back in the early days.
Zeynep TolanGUEST
And I joined Microsoft and I had a very nice, solid six years with Microsoft where I worked on Internet Explorer.
Zeynep TolanGUEST
I worked on the very early cell phones and the syncing with your email.
Zeynep TolanGUEST
We had a product called ActiveSync.
Vishen LakhianiGUEST
I'm great, you're great.
Vishen LakhianiGUEST
Now on the walls of Microsoft, there were these posters that said that we're bashing Mozilla because Microsoft was creating Internet Explorer, the browser.
Vishen LakhianiGUEST
Mozilla was the enemy.
Vishen LakhianiGUEST
So better, this is where a lot of companies are.
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