"Internet Explorer was one of our earliest portals to this wondrous new digital reality," says Powai-based Sahil Vaidya, on learning about American tech giant Microsoft retiring Internet Explorer, which breathed its last on June 15. Vaidya remembers getting access to the browser as a 7-8-year-old and since the Internet had just started reaching people around the world, Internet Explorer was the only browser at the time for everybody. “I fondly remember being excited about accessing Cartoon Network's website and all the possibilities of playing games on the Internet,” adds the 28-year-old. 

Remember the time when most of us waited for the dial-up connection to beep and connect us to the ‘Internet’, an alien concept at the time? Once we were on it, Internet Explorer or IE as it is more commonly known, was the only and now much-loved browser to access it. Easily recognisable with the gold ring around a cursive ‘E’ to represent Internet Explorer, it managed to transport us into a whole new world. Most may remember that this was at a time when affording a Personal Computer or PC was still a luxury for many.