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Kind of impressive when you think about it (infosec.pub)

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

It's not that internet explorer was good that made it successful, it was packaged with windows where Netscape wasn't. People used the one that was already on their computer, then as they got market share they extended http to encourage sites to make stuff that wouldn't work in Netscape, and couldn't due to patents

By the time Microsoft was forced to unbundle IE and windows it was very hard for Netscape to get market share back