Internet Explorer, every mention
8 scenes (2022) · ← back to Internet Explorer
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2022 anyone David Rosenthal 41Ben Gilbert 33Brendan Eich 5Howard Marks 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Internet Explorer comes up
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:31:55 Ben Gilbert I think you had to use IE to view it.
Howard Marks & Andrew Marks: Something of Value · Acquired
- ▶ 1:30:03 Howard Marks For the life of me, I couldn't figure out the difference between Explorer and email, but I got there eventually.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 18:40 Brendan Eich Microsoft had simply killed Netscape by bundling IE, which it copied and sort of acquired pieces of through Spyglass.
- ▶ 19:02 Brendan Eich Meanwhile, they were bundling it with Windows, uh, 95 and then 98, and they got convicted in the USB-Microsoft case for this because it's not illegal to acquire Monopoly through, let's say, Merit or a sweetheart deal with IBM to be the OS…
- ▶ 22:22 Brendan Eich IE is it forever.
- ▶ 30:19 Ben Gilbert And so you had this sort of moment to seize if you had the right team where there was no legitimate challenger anymore to IE, and so you could make a real run at it.
- ▶ 32:25 Brendan Eich Restarting the market, you know, sassing your boss, showing up IE, um, showing the world a better tool for something that people used every day, right?
- ▶ 41:22 Brendan Eich Microsoft had woken up and was doing IE and finally did Edge, and this was before they switched Edge to be based on Chromium.