Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is dead

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is dead

You may love it, you may loathe it, but you probably grew up with it. Now, it’s gone

The tech giant Microsoft has “retired” its Internet Explorer web browser as of Wednesday

The ubiquitous blue and white “e,” sometimes featuring a gold band

will be disappearing from computers around the world, and the internet — at least some of it — is in mourning

“I’m from the generation that started my #internet journey in the early 2000s through IE

Thank you IE for expanding my knowledge during childhood

through the click of a button,” wrote one poster on Twitter, where #RIPInternetExplorer was trending

“Sad to see it go,” tweeted one individual; “last of the old guard,” said another

Many online grew nostalgic about the web browser that was launched in 1995

and was dominant for many years during the days of dial-up internet

Others lamented its lack of speed and said good riddance

“I’ll miss using Internet Explorer to only ever download another browser,”

teased one individual as many referred to the popularity of competitor browsers such as Google Chrome

Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox.