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Catch of the Day: The Forbidden Apple! 🍏🪟

Hey Retro Fans!
Hold on to your CRT monitors, because our FrogFind radar has caught something today that feels like a relic from a parallel universe. Among all the Nintendos and Linux machines, this legendary identifier appeared:

Internet Explorer 5.17 on Mac (PowerPC)!

For everyone rubbing their eyes right now: Yes, Internet Explorer existed for the Mac, and it was a big deal! Following the historic "peace treaty" between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates in 1997, Internet Explorer became the official default browser on all Apple computers for five years.

The craziest part? Mac IE was technically vastly superior to its Windows counterpart at the time! Microsoft built a completely bespoke rendering engine for Apple called Tasman, which was one of the very first to properly support CSS. Version 5.1.7 (released in the summer of 2003) was the absolute final update ever pushed for classic Mac OS 8 and 9 before Apple entirely shifted focus to their own browser, Safari.

The fact that today, over 20 years later, someone boots up an old PowerPC Mac (perhaps a colorful iMac G3?) and browses FrogFind with the Mac-exclusive Internet Explorer is a glorious time machine to an era when Microsoft and Apple surfed hand in hand.

Cheers to the Tasman engine!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

🌐#Chrome is the new #IE
🔎#GoogleChrome #InternetExplorer.

#Meme #Memes #Humour #Humor #Google

🌐#Chrome is the new #IE
🔎#GoogleChrome #InternetExplorer.

#Meme #Memes #Humour #Humor #Google

🌐#Chrome is the new #IE
🔎#GoogleChrome #InternetExplorer.

#Meme #Memes #Humour #Humor #Google

@ramon IE shitty . Who could have known. #internetExplorer

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #mac #macos #internetexplorer #internetexplorer5

Catch of the Day: A Beta Look Back! 🍏🔍

Hey Retro Fans!

Today, the FrogFind radar caught a true software fossil that will make Apple historians' eyes light up: Internet Explorer 5.0b1 on a Mac!

Wait... b1? Exactly! The "b1" stands for Beta 1. We are not talking about the regular Internet Explorer 5 for the Mac (which was released in 2000 and, with its revolutionary Tasman engine, was the best Mac browser for a long time). No, this is an unfinished, shaky test version (Beta 1) from the summer or fall of 1999!

Whoever is running this machine today probably popped in an old "Macworld" magazine CD, installed this pre-release version, and is happily surfing through the Frog pond. Such leaks and early beta builds are often full of amusing bugs, placeholder graphics, and unfinished rendering routines. But FrogFind is tough and serves up the finest, most digestible HTML even to this beta relic.

We love it when you dig deep into your software archives!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #windowsCE #pocketPC #InternetExplorer #InternetExplorer4

Catch of the Day: The Pocket PC Revival! 📟🖋️

Hey Retro Fans!
Today, our FrogFind radar caught a true gem from the early mobile era: Internet Explorer 4.01 on Windows CE (Pocket PC)!

Who doesn't remember the turn of the millennium, proudly pulling a Compaq iPAQ, HP Jornada, or Casio Cassiopeia out of a suit pocket? These devices ran Windows CE, featured resistive touchscreens operated with a tiny plastic stylus, and often boasted a whopping 32 or 64 megabytes of RAM.

The integrated "Pocket Internet Explorer" was a marvel back then, but is completely lost on the modern web. If it encounters even a kilobyte too much of modern JavaScript, the tiny processor immediately gives up. But this is exactly where FrogFind shines! On the classic 240x320 pixel displays of these PDAs, pure, fast HTML is rendered—and suddenly, the internet of 2026 is usable again on hardware from 1999.

Cheers to the saviors of classic PDAs! Keep a close eye on your styluses!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #FrogFind #microsoft #apple #internetexplorer #macos

Catch of the Day: Microsoft's Masterpiece... for the Mac?! 🍏🪟

Hey Retro Fans!
Today we have a true exotic in the logs, reminding us of one of the most fascinating (and bizarre) eras in computer history. We recorded a solid 31 hits from Internet Explorer 5.0 running on a Mac!

Yes, you read that right: Microsoft and Apple united on one screen.
Those who remember 1997 might recall the historic deal between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates that saved Apple from bankruptcy back then. Part of that deal: Internet Explorer became the default browser on all Macintosh computers for the next few years – long before Safari even existed!

The craziest part about it? The Mac version wasn't just a lazy port of the Windows software. Microsoft's dedicated "Macintosh Business Unit" built a completely new rendering engine under the hood called Tasman. This led to the absurd situation where Internet Explorer 5.0 for the Mac, upon its release in 2000, was widely considered the most advanced, best-looking, and most standards-compliant browser on the entire market – it was technically vastly superior to Microsoft's own Windows version!

The fact that this historic piece of software is still being used today to surf the Frog pond is a wonderful homage to the crazy late 90s.

Stay retro and always think "Different"!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸

I’m baffled by how many companies would recommend setting this to “Low” as a basic troubleshooting step.

#RetroTech #90sComputing #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #TechThrowback #1990sTech #InternetExplorer #IE

Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
https://negativepid.blog/tim-berners-lee-and-the-world-wide-web/

#timBernersLee #WWW #worldWideWeb #internet #internetInventions #browsers #Netscape #InternetExplorer #research #negativepid

Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
https://negativepid.blog/tim-berners-lee-and-the-world-wide-web/

#timBernersLee #WWW #worldWideWeb #internet #internetInventions #browsers #Netscape #InternetExplorer #research #negativepid

Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
https://negativepid.blog/tim-berners-lee-and-the-world-wide-web/

#timBernersLee #WWW #worldWideWeb #internet #internetInventions #browsers #Netscape #InternetExplorer #research #negativepid

Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
https://negativepid.blog/tim-berners-lee-and-the-world-wide-web/

#timBernersLee #WWW #worldWideWeb #internet #internetInventions #browsers #Netscape #InternetExplorer #research #negativepid

Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
https://negativepid.blog/tim-berners-lee-and-the-world-wide-web/

#timBernersLee #WWW #worldWideWeb #internet #internetInventions #browsers #Netscape #InternetExplorer #research #negativepid

Who is leaving Internet Explorer graffiti in Lowell, MA?

#lowellMA #graffiti #internetExplorer #microsoft #webBrowsers

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #pda #pocketpc #WindowsCE #InternetExplorer

Catch of the Day: The Return of the Pocket PCs! 📱🖊️

Hey Retro Fans!

Just in time for the weekend, we are shining our spotlight on a very special class of devices that popped up in our logs today: The forefathers of the smartphone!

An Internet Explorer 4.01 running on a classic Pocket PC (Windows CE) made an impressive return.
Think back to the late 90s and early 2000s: Before we all carried capacitive glass touchscreens in our pockets, devices like the Compaq iPAQ, the HP Jornada, or the Casio Cassiopeia ruled the business world. You operated them using a tiny plastic stylus on a resistive 240x320 pixel display.

Modern, image-heavy, and script-bloated websites will instantly bring these early handhelds to their knees. But FrogFind, with its pure text output, is an absolute blessing for the limited memory and tiny screens of these PDAs. It’s wonderful to see that you haven't hung up your styluses just yet!

We wish you a great weekend – stay mobile and retro!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
https://negativepid.blog/tim-berners-lee-and-the-world-wide-web/

#timBernersLee #WWW #worldWideWeb #internet #internetInventions #browsers #Netscape #InternetExplorer #research #negativepid

Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
https://negativepid.blog/tim-berners-lee-and-the-world-wide-web/

#timBernersLee #WWW #worldWideWeb #internet #internetInventions #browsers #Netscape #InternetExplorer #research #negativepid

Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
https://negativepid.blog/tim-berners-lee-and-the-world-wide-web/

#timBernersLee #WWW #worldWideWeb #internet #internetInventions #browsers #Netscape #InternetExplorer #research #negativepid

Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
https://negativepid.blog/tim-berners-lee-and-the-world-wide-web/

#timBernersLee #WWW #worldWideWeb #internet #internetInventions #browsers #Netscape #InternetExplorer #research #negativepid

Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web
https://negativepid.blog/tim-berners-lee-and-the-world-wide-web/

#timBernersLee #WWW #worldWideWeb #internet #internetInventions #browsers #Netscape #InternetExplorer #research #negativepid

🚀 Wow, just what the world needed: a 3D globe that crams 10K flights into 3.5MB of Rust+WASM—because nothing says 'cutting-edge tech' like watching tiny dots dance on a spinning ball. 🎉 Meanwhile, the rest of us are just trying to get our Internet Explorer to load Google. 🙃
https://flight-viz.com #3DGlobe #Rust #WASM #FlightData #TechInnovation #InternetExplorer #HackerNews #ngated

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #apple #macos #internetexplorer #microsoft

FrogFind's "Catch of the Day": Sleeping with the Enemy? (Internet Explorer for Mac!) 🍏🤝🪟

Hey Retro Fans and have a great start to the week!

Today's Catch of the Day catapults us right back to 1997 – a time when Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy, and Steve Jobs made an announcement that caused the Mac community to gasp in horror. Around 12:32 PM, this legendary agent appeared in our logs:

🏆 Internet Explorer 4.0 on Mac

Why is this so special?
At the 1997 Macworld Expo, Steve Jobs announced a partnership with their arch-rival, Microsoft. Bill Gates invested $150 million into Apple, and in return, Internet Explorer became the default web browser on all Macintosh computers (starting with Mac OS 8.1) for five years!

IE for Mac wasn't just a cheap Windows port, either. Microsoft had a dedicated, highly motivated Mac team that perfectly adapted the browser to match Apple's "Platinum" interface design. The fact that someone booted up this historical peace treaty between Apple and Microsoft this afternoon to visit FrogFind is pure computer romance.

Who needs Safari when you have IE 4? 😉

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

Ich gebe zu, bei dieser Retro CD-ROM hätte ich selbst mal absolut keine Idee, wofür man sie heutzutage noch benutzen könnte oder wollen würde. Aber hey, ich bin hier nur fürs Archivieren zuständig! 😜

Hier hätte ich jetzt das offizielle, deutsche Internet Explorer StarterKit für Windows 95 mit dem IE 3.02! Für Windows 3.1, Windows NT und den Macintosh ist glaub ich auch was drauf. Naja, vielleicht braucht das jemand für ein Museum oder so...

https://archive.org/details/mswin_95_de_isk

#RetroComputing #InternetExplorer #IE3 #Microsoft #Win95 #Windows95 #Oldschool #90er #90s #CDROM #StarterKit #Alt #Museum

Ich gebe zu, bei dieser Retro CD-ROM hätte ich selbst mal absolut keine Idee, wofür man sie heutzutage noch benutzen könnte oder wollen würde. Aber hey, ich bin hier nur fürs Archivieren zuständig! 😜

Hier hätte ich jetzt das offizielle, deutsche Internet Explorer StarterKit für Windows 95 mit dem IE 3.02! Für Windows 3.1, Windows NT und den Macintosh ist glaub ich auch was drauf. Naja, vielleicht braucht das jemand für ein Museum oder so...

https://archive.org/details/mswin_95_de_isk

#RetroComputing #InternetExplorer #IE3 #Microsoft #Win95 #Windows95 #Oldschool #90er #90s #CDROM #StarterKit #Alt #Museum

Heilige Scheiße, was war das hässlich! Windows 95 C SR2.5 mit IE4 und Active Desktop direkt nach der Installation. Wirklich schrecklich! 😠

#Win95 #Windows95 #Microsoft #Windows #RetroComputing #90er #90s #Bloatware #Retro #86Box #InternetExplorer

We dropped support for Internet Explorer!

This was a +92 -10,723 diff!

There had been support down to IE6...

https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/pull/2856

#Python #InternetExplorer #IE6 #IE7 #IE8 #IE

@wyatt I thought Internet Explorer 6 supported indexed PNG with binary transparency, the same feature set that still GIF allows.

#InternetExplorer #PNG #GIF

Apple just reinvented the wheel 🛞 by adding a magnifying glass 🔍 to #CSS #Grid Lanes in #Safari, hoping developers will finally care. Spoiler alert: they're still too busy debugging Internet Explorer quirks to notice. 🙄 #InnovationFail
https://webkit.org/blog/17746/new-safari-developer-tools-provide-insight-into-css-grid-lanes/ #Apple #Innovation #Developer #Tools #InternetExplorer #HackerNews #ngated

Firefox is now an "AI browser" 🤖, and everyone online is flailing around like headless chickens 🐔 because, clearly, that's what we needed: more #AI in our lives to "enhance" our browsing experience. Meanwhile, Internet Explorer is smugly chuckling from its retirement home. 😏
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/firefox-is-becoming-an-ai-browser-and-the-internet-is-not-at-all-happy-about-it/ #Firefox #browser #AI #technology #InternetExplorer #browsingexperience #HackerNews #ngated

for the last time your name is #internetexplorer and you go back in the box

Totgeglaubter #InternetExplorer wird zur Sicherheitslücke: #Microsoft reagiert | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Gefahr-aus-dem-Grab-Microsoft-verbuddelt-IE-noch-tiefer-10761101.html #IEmode #IEmodus #Browser #Webbrowser #exploit

#InternetExplorer もなかなか日本はシェア落ちなかったのを思い出した。
まあ直接的には企業の動きが保守的で遅いということだったと感じてるけど、自分の体感ではユーザーとか制作の現場もそういう企業ムーブに追従しがちで、みんなが知ってて数が集まるところにいると安心するみたいな人が多いという傾向はありそうな気がする

https://fedibird.com/@tukine/115386258259077884

Danger from the Grave: Microsoft Buries IE Even Deeper

Following active attacks, Microsoft has drastically restricted Internet Explorer mode in Edge. Attackers even used zero-days for system takeovers.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Danger-from-the-Grave-Microsoft-Buries-IE-Even-Deeper-10762301.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Browser #Exploit #AdobeFlash #InternetExplorer #IT #Security #Microsoft #MicrosoftEdge #Netzpolitik #news

Gefahr aus dem Grab: Microsoft verbuddelt IE noch tiefer

Nach aktiven Angriffen hat Microsoft den Internet-Explorer-Modus in Edge drastisch eingeschränkt. Angreifer nutzten sogar Zero-Days für Systemübernahmen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Gefahr-aus-dem-Grab-Microsoft-verbuddelt-IE-noch-tiefer-10761101.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Browser #Exploit #AdobeFlash #InternetExplorer #IT #Security #Microsoft #MicrosoftEdge #Netzpolitik #news

Mais pourquoi Microsoft nous reparle d'Internet Explorer ?
https://mac4ever.com/192419
#Mac4Ever #InternetExplorer #Microsoft

Microsoft has made accessing Internet Explorer Mode in Microsoft Edge more difficult

Me: Good :-) This should be an entreprise feature.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-restricts-ie-mode-access-in-edge-after-zero-day-attacks/
- - -
Microsoft a rendu l'accès au mode Internet Explorer dans Microsoft Edge plus difficile

Moi: Génial! :-) Cela devrait être une fonctionnalité d'entreprise.

// Article en anglais //

#Microsoft #MicrosoftEdge #InternetExplorer #Edge

Browser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeance—thanks to AI – Fortune

AI·Browsers

Browser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeance—thanks to AI

By Beatrice Nolan, Tech Reporter and By Jeremy KahnEditor, AI

October 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM EDT

Tech companies are racing to build browsers that not only fetch information but act on your behalf. Among the new entrants is Comet, an AI-native web browser created by Perplexity.

Photo Illustration by May James—SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

The early days of the internet saw intense competition between graphical web browsers: Netscape Navigator faced off against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. No sooner had Explorer won that conflict than a new war for marketshare erupted between Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox, and Google Chrome. This time Chrome emerged as the dominant player, with a marketshare that has been above 60% for most of the past decade, while the next closest rival, Apple’s Safari, has been stuck in the mid-teens.

But now, AI is shaking up the browser market, with companies beginning to incorporate new generative and agentic AI capabilities directly into the web navigation tool. That in turn is sparking a fierce new war for users, with Google Chrome, now enhanced with Google’s AI model Gemini, fighting upstarts like Perplexity, with its Comet AI browser, and battered veterans of past browser fights, like Opera, trying to get their mojo back with AI enhancements too.

For nearly two decades, the basic browsing experience, aside from a few minor improvements, remained largely unchanged. Users typed a url in the navigation bar, or typed a search query in that same space—a feature that Opera first pioneered but which was soon copied by Google—and the browser takes the user to that web address or a search results page, which displays a list of links. Click on a link and the browser takes you to that web page.

Now, tech companies are betting that users want a new kind of experience: a browser that can answer questions, not just provide a list of links, and that can do far more than just navigate a user to a web page—one that can perform tasks for the user on that page, such as booking travel or completing a purchase.

“This is probably the biggest shift since we’ve seen the browser itself become the gateway to the internet. For 30 years, the browser was about navigation. Type, click, explore. Now, with AI, it’s changing the model completely. It’s moving from browsing to delegating,” George Chalhoub, assistant professor at UCL Interaction Centre, told Fortune.

Tech companies, including Perplexity and Opera, have already launched agentic AI browsers that can perform tasks on behalf of users. Perplexity’s Comet combines a web browser with a built-in AI agent that can read pages, summarize information, and even perform multi-step actions, such as booking appointments or sending emails. Similarly, Opera’s Neon introduces features like “Do,” which can carry out actions on a user’s behalf, and “Cards,” which store custom workflows and prompts for repeated use.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Browser wars, a hallmark of the late 1990s tech world, are back with a vengeance—thanks to AI | Fortune

#1990s #2025 #AI #America #artificialIntelligence #BrowserMarket #Chrome #Comet #Education #Firefox #Fortune #Google #History #InternetExplorer #NetscapeNavigator #Safari #Science #TechWorld #Technology #UnitedStates #WebBrowsers

young people will never know how truly terrible #internetexplorer was. #reflection

Es ist wirklich erschreckend, auf wievielen Servern noch der #InternetExplorer als Default Browser eingestellt ist...

@andreS

Es ändert an die bestehenden Gesetzen nichts

Ich erzähle immer:

Wenn jemand an seinem Laden ein Schild hängt auf dem steht

Zugang nur mit roten Schuhen, wird er feststellen das er im Laden eine 100% Quote erreicht hat

Merkt aber nicht mehr wie viele draußen vorbei gehen

Meistens schnackelts dann

Das erzähle ich schon seit

Optimiert für #InternetExplorer = #Netscape 🙈😅

Aber das Argument mit Nachhaltig Hochwertig sehe ich bei #GenZ #Gen@ nicht

Siehe #Temu #shine #primark & co

🚨Breaking News: Scientists discover that ancient DNA is indeed old!🧬🤯 Meanwhile, Nature.com struggles with JavaScript and CSS, reminding us all that the real ancestral lineage we should be worried about is Internet Explorer's. 🙄💻
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08793-7 #BreakingNews #AncientDNA #NatureJavaScript #InternetExplorer #TechStruggles #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, yes, the 3D treasure hunt for soldiers 🗺️—best experienced on browsers from this millennium, because Internet Explorer is as useful as a broken compass 🧭. For tech support, just type out the world's longest email address, because brevity is apparently not part of the military training 💻✉️.
https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/oegames/landnav/index.html #3DTreasureHunt #InternetExplorer #MilitaryTraining #TechHumor #BrowserGames #HackerNews #ngated

Yes, it's that bad

North Korean APT Exploited IE Zero-Day in Supply Chain Attack – Source: www.securityweek.com https://ciso2ciso.com/north-korean-apt-exploited-ie-zero-day-in-supply-chain-attack-source-www-securityweek-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #SupplyChainSecurity #CyberSecurityNews #internetexplorer #securityweekcom #securityweek #NorthKorea #FEATURED #zeroday #APT37

Herrlich. Ich hab ein top aktuelles Buch gefunden. Dort wird der neuartige Brenner vorgestellt :D
Surfen mit dem Internet Explorer. 😂 ich fass es nicht 😂

…Und noch Komfortabler geht es mit einem sogenannten Headset … 😂😂😂 das waren noch Zeiten!
#WindowsXP #conputerbild #Word2003 #InternetExplorer #outlookEXPRESS6 😂 #it #computer #windows #linux #old #rustic #rustikal #scharm #oldbutgold #oldbutgood

Today you might laugh at the notion of paying for a web browser (or any other software, you freeloader 😒). But this was part of #Netscape’s business model at first. #Microsoft killed them later by bundling #InternetExplorer with their market-leading #Windows operating system.

#MSIE wasn’t even Microsoft code at first; it was just a badge-engineered licensed version of Spyglass Mosaic. Spyglass was created to commercialize #NCSA Mosaic, the first popular graphical web browser.

Internet Explorer for Mac was Microsoft's venture to bring its popular web browser to Apple's ecosystem. Released in 1996 and discontinued in 2003, this piece of tech history symbolizes a unique era of collaboration and competition between tech giants.
🏷️ #Nostalgia #RetroTech #1990sTechnology #Early2000s #InternetExplorer #MacHistory #TechThrowback #OldSchoolTech

The best version of IE on desktop was always #InternetExplorer 8 to me, where it peaked. Only once #IE11 came out did it have competition in quality, and it was also the best version on #WindowsPhone. I enjoyed using IE on my phone except for the lack of a real #adblocker and not an ad-hider bookmarklet. #Microsoft lying about what browser it was in the user agent certainly helped.

#IE8 #IE #WebBrowser #bookmarklet

Wochenrückblick, Ausgabe 29 (2024-08).

Diesmal mit dem Grund, warum ich mir nach vier Jahren wieder einen zweiten Monitor auf den Schreibtisch gestellt habe, der zweiten defekten Delock 11827 Schaltsteckdose (mit identischem Sympton wie bei der ersten), einem neuen Feature für Bikerouter.de bzw. BRouter-Web, der Verschwörung, die dabei half, dass wir Internet Explorer 6 losgeworden sind, mal wieder Wildschweinen im Garten, etwas Frühling und wie immer Techno.

#Schreibtisch #Monitor #Delock #SmartHome #Tasmota #Bikerouter #BRouterWeb #IE6 #InternetExplorer #Wildschwein #Garten #Frühling #Techno

https://www.marcusjaschen.de/blog/2024/2024-08/