Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now? - eviltoast

My pick would be, dealing with the ‘wild west’ atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.

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      1 year ago

      For companies that rely on microshit services, internet explorer is actually the duct tape and elmer’s glue that holds their intranet together

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      Microsoft hilariously butchered the introduction of Edge, which showed a logo that was strikingly similar to IE. They’ve sworn up and down that Edge wasn’t like IE. But Edge, behaved similarly to IE. It took Microsoft a few years to finally give Edge it’s own identity and more or less, better functionality.