Firstly IE (Internet Explorer) is the Property ofMicrosoft, It is been developed by Microsoft, Formerly known as Microsoft Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE. Microsoft has done constant changes year after year. Internet Explorer was derived from Spyglass Mosaic, In May 1994, Spyglass licensed NCSA’s Mosaic browser, There intention was to develop there own browser, They developed the browser and were shared across different platforms such as MicrosoftWindows, UNIX and Mac OS, Spyglass Mosaic’s codebase was licensed to Microsoft, Now it is known as Internet Explorer.
The browser was modified and then release as Internet Explore by Microsoft. The original source code for the development was initiated by Netscape. Within few years Microsoftdominated Netscape. Previously people preferred Netscape browser for accessing internet, the reason IE was an instant hit among the users was the cost, Netscape charged for their browser but Microsoft gave Internet Explorer for free.
Internet Explorer has released around 10 versions. The First IE was released on August 16, 1995, and The First Version of IE is IE1.0, It was released in Windows3.1 95 NT. Windows 95 was selected for this experiment as it was Microsoft primary Operating System at that Time. We had to install the IE in 95 in order to access internet, the user interface was very simple in appearance and barely deviates from the Standard application design pyridine. By default the Homepage was MSN in IE.
I wanted myself to find out the main difference between IE1.0 of IE8.0, and the Latest Version, so I had installed both the version of IE and I used wireshark packet sniffer to sniff the packets sent from both the IE browsers.
From this I had discovered that in IE 1.0 does not send the host header that many sites rely on to distinguish between several websites on the same server and because of this there will be no CSS and java script. Within 2 months IE released 2nd version of IE, There was no much difference in it either. Couple of years later Microsoft released IE3 which had was better than the previous version, because it had supported frames, JavaScript and finally the host header. There journey was successful within few years in the browser industry.
IE was most popular in 1999, 2002, 2003 With IE5 and IE6 version released, because of some clever marketing from Microsoft, But from then It has decreased a bit, Its facing constant competition from many competitors, One of the main competitors are Mozilla, Google Chrome and Apple safari. But Still IE Tops the List among the browsers.
Source: http://www.techbitnbyte.com/the-brief-history-of-internet-explorer/
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