On June 15th 2022, Internet Explorer will be retired by Microsoft.
and it's big brother has cemented, permanently, guarded by lions, the unwavering conviction that I. WILL. NEVER. USE. A. MICROSOFT. BROWSER. FOR. ANY. OTHER. REASON. THAN. TO. INSTALL. ANOTHER. BETTER. BROWSER.
I only accept two kinds of acceptable browsers for leftists: Firefox and some obscure nerd shit I’ve never heard of that extreme FOSS people will tell me about for 20 minutes
Brother I see you're ready to receive the good word of our lord and savior gemini.
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
https://drewdevault.com/2020/11/01/What-is-Gemini-anyway.html
Real heads were on that netscape navigator shit. While I was on AOL lol
Searching askjeeves in Netscape navigator for geocities to log into my dragonball z fan page :comfy-cool:
God I miss personal home pages with links and gifs everywhere.
Lol remember affiliate links for other websites that were about the same topic?
Also flash only websites that took forever to load before you could actually browse
Oh yeah I do remember having to skip the intro on a lot of sites that were using flash because of 56k. I also miss webrings and old hentai sites that'd have a gif flashing saying "SAILOR MOON FUCKS GOKU - CLICK HERE!"
flash only websites
There was so much creativity going on there, it's too bad that the implementation (flash) always kind of sucked. HTML5 can do a lot of what flash used to with half the problems and twice the speed, but people aren't interested in having super unique web pages anymore.
maybe check out neocities.org, or one of the sites on tildeverse.org?
I know neocities, dunno what the second link is. I spend a lot of time going through old sites via the wayback machine, sadly so many sites are incomplete which sucks.
Basically the tildeverse is a small community of servers that offer free web space. I've got a page on https://tilde.club which generally inspired the other ones. Another pretty active one is https://tilde.town, which calls itself an "intentional digital community."
I don't think it's ever been anyone else's favourite browser either
I still use it as a compatibility tool to update and set up my ancient wifi router lol
You should install the open-source OpenWRT on your ancient router, if it's supported. You gotta protect yourself from wifi vulnerabilities, there are even some that allow attackers to gain control of a router(and thus the entire network).
https://openwrt.org/supported_devices
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/generic.flashing
Fuck Microsoft for giving up on the original Edge browser. Not that it was good, but at least it wasn't a re-skinned Google Chrome.
Also, fuck Microsoft for activex, which forced loads of companies to keep using Windows due to a critical legacy app only working in Internet Explorer. Plus, their embrace, extend, extinguish tactics.
And companies around the US cried out in terror that they will have to actually shell out the cash to have their horribly outdated company websites updated to work on a functional browser. Oh the horror
I'm waiting for Windows to be retired by Microsoft who will offer a free upgrade to GNU/Linux.
i was using it to browse porn and to search for answers to my dumbest questions. what do?
