On June 15th, Microsoft discontinued Internet Explorer support, and someone has marked the occasion with a bit of humour. Software engineer Jung Ki-young designed and ordered a headstone for the web browser to mark the end of an era. It includes the original launch date and ‘time of death’ as well as a quirky inscription that reads, “He was a good tool to download other browsers.”
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It is located on the roof of his brother’s cafe in the South Korean city of Gyeongju and features Internet Explorer’s iconic logo as well. Accord to Jung, he commissioned the memorial to commemorate a program that had defined his career. Even as apps like Chrome and Firefox went on to replace Internet Explorer in both prominence and popularity, many of Jung’s customers kept asking him to ensure their websites looked good in Microsoft’s aging web browser.
“It was a pain in the ass, but I would call it a love-hate relationship because Explorer itself once dominated an era,” he said.
