#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #ie3 #microsoft #browserwar #internetexploerer

Catch of the Day: The Dawn of the Browser War! ⚔️🪟

Hey Retro Fans!

Just yesterday we celebrated Netscape Navigator, and today, its greatest historical rival promptly showed up in our logs. Someone visited us using Internet Explorer 3.0 on Windows 95!

The year is 1996: Microsoft releases IE 3.0, officially kicking off the first great browser war. This version was an absolute milestone. Not only was it the first Microsoft browser to feature the iconic blue "e" logo, but it was also the first commercial browser to support Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)! Unfortunately for webmasters, this also marked the beginning of the infamous "Optimized for Internet Explorer" era.

The fact that this 30-year-old piece of software is still being booted up on a genuine Windows 95 machine today to fetch lightning-fast pure HTML text via FrogFind is absolutely mind-blowing. The Frog pond unites them all – no matter which side of the browser war you were on back then!

Stay retro and peaceful!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸

Mozilla: Microsoft grenzt in Windows schon wieder die Konkurrenz aus

https://winfuture.de/news,158018.html

> Der Firefox-Hersteller Mozilla erhebt erneut schwere Vorwürfe gegen Microsoft: Designentscheidungen im Betriebssystem Windows würden den Wettbewerb bei Browsern massiv verzerren, teilte das Unternehmen mit.

> Als Beispiel nennt Mozilla die Windows-Suche: Ergebnisse aus der Taskleiste öffnen sich in der Regel direkt in Edge, unabhängig vom gewählten Standardbrowser. Ähnliches gelte für Links aus Anwendungen wie Microsoft Outlook oder Microsoft Teams. Diese Praxis führe dazu, dass Nutzer Firefox gar nicht in dem Umfang erleben, den sie eigentlich gewählt hätten.

#Windows #BrowserWar #Firefox #Mozilla

Opera GX wants to come to Linux? 🤣 Good luck.

Opera was bought by the chinese, and has become full of slop left and right.

The original team left and made #Vivaldi. That's the browser to download.

#Technology #Browsers #Web #WebBrowser #BrowserWar #Lixnux #Opera #OperaGX #China

Check out my new blog post, “Vivaldi Web Browser:”
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/12/19/vivaldi-web-browser/

#edtech #MediaLit #opencontent #openweb #browser #BrowserWar #privacy

🌐 La guerra da miliardi di dollari è iniziata: i browser AI stanno cambiando le regole del gioco. Sei pronto per il futuro? #AI #BrowserWar #socialmedia #artificialintelligence #technology

🔗 https://aibay.it/notizie/browser-guerra-da-miliardi-di-dollari-2025-08-28

💻 Perplexity non si arrende! Obiettivo nel mirino: sottrarre Chrome a Google. Una competizione stimolante in vista! #TechRace #BrowserWar

🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/hardware/perplexity-vuole-acquistare-chrome-da-google-2025-08-13

OpenAI’s New Browser Could Be the Biggest Threat Google Has Faced in a Decade (YNETNEWS, 11 Jul 2025)
https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/s1fmphrhge

#BigTech #edtech #MediaLiteracy #OpenAI #googleEDU #BrowserWar #ChromeOS #Chrome

"I want my MTV...as long as it's the Java version in IE4."

MTV's website in 1997 was a hodgepodge of technologies: Java, JavaScript, frames and more. The quality of your user experience depended on which browser you used: Netscape or IE. https://cybercultural.com/p/browser-war-1990s/ #InternetHistory #BrowserWar