Internet Explorer was a web browser made by Microsoft, first released in August 1995 as part of an add-on package for Windows 95. It was based on code licensed from Spyglass, and it entered the so-called browser wars against Netscape Navigator. By bundling it with Windows, Microsoft helped it overtake Netscape, and by the early 2000s it was used by the great majority of internet users. This led to antitrust cases in the United States and Europe. It later lost ground to Firefox and Google Chrome, was replaced by Microsoft Edge, and was retired in June 2022.
Before and after
- from 21 July 1995 to 23 March 1996Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
- 23 July 1995Discovery of Comet Hale-Bopp
- from 25 July 1995 to 29 July 1995Operation Summer '95
- from 4 August 1995 to 7 August 1995Operation Storm
- 16 August 1995Release of Internet Explorer
- 24 August 1995Creation of Windows 95
- from 30 August 1995 to 20 September 1995Operation Deliberate Force
- from 4 September 1995 to 18 June 2001Premiere of Xena: Warrior Princess
- from 8 September 1995 to 15 September 1995Operation Mistral 2
More in Science & technology
- 1955Discovery of mendelevium
- 14 February 1961Discovery of lawrencium
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 20th century.