To commemorate his death, he spent a month and 430,000 won ($ 330) designing and commissioning a tombstone with the “e” Explorer logo and the English message: “It was a good tool for downloading other browsers.”
After the monument was displayed in a cafe run by his brother in the southern city of Gyeongju, the image of the tombstone went viral.
Microsoft slows down support for the ubiquitous Internet Explorer on Wednesday after 27 years of operation, to focus on its fastest browser, Microsoft Edge.
Jung said the monument showed his conflicting feelings towards the old shows, which played an important role in his working life.
“It was a pain in the ass,” he said, “but I’ll call it an adventure of love and hate because the explorer himself dominated an era.”
He said it took longer to make sure your websites and online apps work with Explorer, compared to other browsers.
But customers asked him to make sure their websites looked good in Explorer, which has been the default browser in South Korean government offices and many banks for years.
Explorer launched in 1995 and became Explorer The world’s leading browser For more than a decade, it has been integrated with the Microsoft Windows operating system that is pre-installed on billions of computers.
But it started to lose ground with Google Chrome in the late 2000’s and became the subject of countless memes on the Internet, and some developers noted that it was slow compared to its competitors.
Jung said he wanted to make people laugh at the tombstone, but he is still amazed at how far the online joke has gone.
“That’s one more reason to thank Explorer, now it’s allowed me to make a global joke,” he said.
“I’m sorry he left, but I won’t miss him. So his retirement, for me, is a good death.”
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