a The end of Internet Explorer It was met with many reactions on social media, between happiness and sarcastic comments about browser speed and nostalgia. But an engineer in South Korea decided to express his disdain for the explorer by using… an ironic tombstone.
The navigator is “buried” on the balcony of a cafe in Gyeongju, southern South Korea. Kyung Jong, 38, designed the tombstone, and wrote the scathing inscription: “It was a good tool for downloading other “browsers”“.
In an interview with AFP, Kyung Joong, 38, explained that he decided to create the tombstone because, as a computer engineer, he “suffered” from the need to create content for the browser.
“In South Korea, when you do web development work, you are expected to make something look good in Internet Explorer, not Chrome,” he said.
The tombstone quickly became an internet sensation, especially on Reddit, where it garnered thousands of votes.
According to Jung, the compatibility differences between Internet Explorer and other browsers forced him to spend extra hours developing sites that are compatible with all browsers.
The engineer admitted he was “delighted” by the announcement that Explorer had ceased to exist, but admitted nostalgia for the time when the browser was the main way to access the Internet. Speaking to AFP, Kyung-jong quoted noted animation film producer Hayao Miyazaki for expressing his dedication to the explorer: “People usually feel relieved that machines don’t have a soul, but we, as human beings, give our hearts to them.”
In recent years, Internet Explorer has gone from being the most important browser on the Internet to a choice despised by many users, who have complained about slowness and system failures.
However, Internet Explorer continued to be a popular browser in South Korea, despite the growth in recent decades of Google Chrome, Safari, and Microsoft Edge, the company’s other browser. Until 2014, South Korean banks and digital commercial companies were required by law to make the browser available, as well as other “plugins” that were no longer usable.
According to France Presse, the browser, now discontinued after more than 20 years, was until recently the default browser on Seoul government websites.
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