IE8 – New and Improved
The internet has changed by leaps and bounds ever since it grew way beyond the specifications set for it by the people who thought of a nationwide network of computers that were linked together to warn the other of pending nuclear attack. Today, the internet changes day by day with new companies being put up as old ones die off and wither into distant memory. The many browsers we now is a welcome sight for a few years back and we only had one way of browsing the internet, using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Way back then, there were only two who fought for the crown as the browser to beat, Netscape and IE with the first collapsing, victim of the fast growing internet giving way to IE’s dominance of the net.
Then came the concept of open-sourced computing, where communities decided on the design and form software would take rather than have a company secretly developing and giving you the final product, no buts no changes. Those days have also passed, and we now have Chrome, IE, Firefox and many more, all fighting in what is called as the Browser Wars, fighting for a share of the internet that can only be made sense of using a web browser. IE has lost it’s crown to FireFox which continues to dominate the net, much like IE did a few years back, now that’s irony.