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Internet Explorer Gravestone Goes Viral in South Korea (reuters.com) 36

Posted by msmash from the how-about-that dept.
An anonymous reader shares a report: For Jung Ki-young, a South Korean software engineer, Microsoft's decision to retire its Internet Explorer web browser marked the end of a quarter-century love-hate relationship with the technology. To commemorate its demise, he spent a month and 430,000 won ($330) designing and ordering a headstone with Explorer's "e" logo and the English epitaph: "He was a good tool to download other browsers." After the memorial went on show at a cafe run by his brother in the southern city of Gyeongju, a photo of the tombstone went viral.
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  • (IE/Edge) Why do I exist? (Score:5, Funny)

    by TigerPlish ( 174064 ) on Friday June 17, 2022 @12:57PM (#62628482)

    https://pics.me.me/whatis-my-p... [pics.me.me]

    • Funny, but imprecise. He doesn't install Chrome, he only download it.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Pieroxy ( 222434 )

      Let's not forget that IE is the browser that brought the first DOM-based rendering engine to the web, enabling AJAX, DHTML, Single Page Apps and globally the Web2.0. Granted it would have emerged eventually but IE4 slapped Netscape in the face with their static rendering engine so hard that they died in a matter of a couple of years. So all in all, they contributed a very significant part of what makes the modern internet.

      After that MS stalled all innovation in the space and got quickly outrun by Firefox an

      • This is false. IE's DOM model was never actually correct, and there was nothing it could do you couldn't do better in Netscape just with different syntax. What's most important to understand though, is that Netscape came first, and IE was purposefully released with a not only blatantly incorrect but also strategically incompatible model, which in practical situations resulted in neither model actually getting used by anyone for years. IE4's release single-handedly set the progress of internet technology bac

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Pieroxy ( 222434 )

          You should fact check your posts. Netscape 4 was not DOM based, IE4 was. Its DOM model was not incompatible since it was the only one. I should know I was a web developer back then.

          As far as doing things Netscape could not, well, everything basically. You could not remove a DIV from the document workflow. You could not change a DIV content. It was *not* DOM based. There was no DOM to play with.

  • 330 bucks? (Score:3)

    by Anachronous Coward ( 6177134 ) on Friday June 17, 2022 @12:57PM (#62628484)

    That seems like an awfully good price for a custom headstone.

    • It certainly is. I dread to think what that would have cost in the UK. Perhaps his is plastic?

      • He specifically mentioned "the stonemason" in the article's attached video, but maybe there's translation issues there. Yeah, seems crazy cheap for an actual headstone.

        Apparently, you might pay $2000 or so for a small upright headstone in the US. Probably similar in the UK. We'd pay more for just the stone material.

    • Maybe the stonemason gave him a reduced price out of sympathy and admiration.

    • I joined Slash Dot for this reply. I bought gravestone from Coupang for 260$ (like amazon mall, but exist at nasdaq) and fake grass for $50 (1meter x 2meter) and stone delivery fee $20 (it's real.) StoneCraft shop(Offline) are more expensive. maybe $500+ also gravestone is small than you think size. (about 40cm x 30cm) because south Korea is next to China, manufactured goods are cheap.

    • That seems like an awfully good price for a custom headstone.

      Good one there

  • Or is it [betanews.com]?

    You figure out a way to get proprietary PLC software to quit checking for IE6* so we don't have to throw out millions of dollars of industrial equipment and I'll believe it's really dead.

    *It doesn't use IE. Just checks to make sure you're not doing something evil like running their software on Linux/Wine.

  • re: he spent a month and 430,000 won ($330) designing and ordering a headstone with Explorer's "e" logo and the English epitaph

    Pretty sure MS wouldn't not have allowed the use of the logo.

  • I can still launch Internet Explorer without issue on my Windows 10 system. Sure, it tells me to "upgrade" to Microsoft Edge, but it still works.

    With all the hoopla given to this, I figured that it would have self-destructed in some way. Maybe show some "Internet Explorer: In Memoriam" video, perhaps?

    • It will automatically be uninstalled when you update.

      If any of your apps use the IE DLL they will be vulnerable on the next patch.

      To keep the IE DLL updated you will have to reinstall IE

      To know if you need to ... well, who knows.

      • It will automatically be uninstalled when you update.

        Ran windows update today and rebooted. Same behavior as supremebob. MS says is is going to be a slow death.

  • They need to add this to Ben & Jerry's Flavor Graveyard. Would be an apt place. A wonderful idea that nobody liked.

  • The phrasing of that epitaph is in the ESOL uncanny valley.

  • It should have been executed years ago for crimes against humanity.

    • Believe it or not web developers jumped for joy for IE as it was a lean mean standards compliant machine compared to the horrible Netscape 4.7 Navigator

  • What will my grandparents do without the "Internet button"?

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