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The Internet Explorer Story: Part 7
Internet Explorer's decline was in full swing by the late 2000s, with Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Apple's Safari, and eventually Google Chrome all fighting for a slice of the browser market. Meanwhile, t…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Mission SPACE
Walt Disney World partnered with Hewlett-Packard to open Mission SPACE in 2003, a high-tech space flight simulator attraction. However, Disney quickly became embroiled in a lawsuit with the manufactu…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
The Internet Explorer Story: Part 6
Internet Explorer had new competition by the mid-2000s, as Firefox rose from the ashes of Netscape, and Apple released the first version of its Safari browser for Mac. Security vulnerabilities and po…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
The Internet Explorer Story: Part 5
The legal battle between Microsoft and the United States government reached its conclusion in 2001, with Internet Explorer at the center of discussions about Microsoft's future. Meanwhile, Microsoft …
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
The Saygus Scam
Saygus, and its CEO Chad Sayers, made headlines in 2015 when it revealed the Saygus V SQUARED smartphone. Many broken promises and shipping delays later, Chad Sayers became the center of a U.S. Justi…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
The Internet Explorer Story: Part 4
Internet Explorer became the center of an antitrust lawsuit from the United States in 1998, the same year it started shipping with Windows and became the most-used web browser worldwide. While Micros…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
Movie Club: Hackers (1995)
Watch Hackers: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/cybernet Hosted by Corbin Davenport, guest starring Zachary Wander and Joe Fedewa. Outro music is "Eyes, Lips, Body" (Mekon Vocal Mix) by Ramshackle.…
Published on 2 years, 11 months ago
The Internet Explorer Story: Part 3
Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser continued to rise throughout 1997, including a new release (4.0) and a deal with Apple to make it the default browser on the Mac. However, before the year wa…
Published on 3 years ago
The Internet Explorer Story: Part 2
Internet Explorer slowly gained market share throughout 1995 and 1996, with the release of two major updates and a slew of corporate partnerships. Behind closed doors, Microsoft fought against PC mak…
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago
The Internet Explorer Story: Part 1
The World Wide Web as we know it today began to take shape in the early 1990s, fueled by the popularity of the Mosaic web browser. Microsoft licensed Mosaic's code to create Internet Explorer, which …
Published on 3 years, 1 month ago