A photo of the South Korea gravestone goes viral, according to The New York Post along with Internet Explorer memes
On the rooftop of a cafรฉ in Gyeongju, South Korea, there stood a gravestone.
Internet Explorer Gravestone In South Korea Goes Viral Along With Memes After The Browser Is Shut Down, Know Who Is Engineer Kiyong Jung
Someone built a real tombstone of Internet Explorer in Korea. "He was a good tool to download other browsers." https://t.co/42vnkoQshd pic.twitter.com/ud3SMiyLNp
— Soonson Kwon (@ksoonson) June 15, 2022
not internet explorer joining the 27 club https://t.co/vYWbTtIMDO
— mount bellyache (@mountbellyache) June 15, 2022
is Internet Explorer ever truly dead? pic.twitter.com/KQGndprUxn
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) June 14, 2022
South Korea, which has one of the world’s fastest average internet speeds, has an odd relationship with Internet Explorer, which was decommissioned after 27 years of service.
Microsoft said on Wednesday that it will no longer support Internet Explorer, according to the Washington Post. The once-dominant browser that had a love-hate relationship with billions of internet users.
Internet Explorer has succumbed to the same fate as BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems, and Palm Pilots. Kiyong Jung, a South Korean engineer, built a gravestone on the roof of a cafรฉ in Gyeongju. To commemorate the browser’s death, he paid $330 for a gravestone. On social media, the image of the gravestone has gone viral. “He was a good tool for downloading other browsers,” reads the inscription on the headstone.
Jung’s tribute mirrored his confused views about the programme that had played such an important role in his professional life, according to the news agency Reuters.
Microsoft retires Internet Explorer
On June 15, 2022, Microsoft will end support for the Internet Explorer 11 desktop software in Windows 10’s Semi-Annual Channel.
You’ll still get IE11 support if you’re on Windows Server 2022 or an earlier OS release with a long-term service extension, but for everyone else, software upgrades are over. ‘Internet Explorer is no longer supported by Microsoft,’ says the company.
After nearly 27 years, Internet Explorer, infamous for its annoying error message, has been retired. Last year, Microsoft stated that the once-dominant browser would be deleted from the majority of Windows 10 editions. Many users despised Internet Explorer, which had earned a reputation for being slow, clumsy, and unreliable in comparison to newer browsers such as Chrome or Firefox over the years.
The browser was notorious for its error message “Internet Explorer has stopped operating,” and was prone to crashing frequently, earning it the moniker “top browser to install other browsers” by web surfers.
The original version of Internet Explorer was introduced in 1995 as part of a Windows 95 add-on package. Microsoft has been involved in legal challenges in Europe and the United States as a result of its insistence that computer manufacturers use the browser as a condition of adopting Windows.
In the early 2000s, Internet Explorer was the most popular web browser, with a 95 per cent usage share by 2003. However, with the introduction of new technologies and the lack of interoperability with mobile operating systems like Android and iOS, its use has declined. Google’s Chrome browser currently holds a 65 per cent share of the global browser market, while Microsoft’s Edge has a 4 per cent share.