Internet Explorer was first released on August 16, 1995 [1] for as part of the Microsoft Plus! pack for Windows 95. That said, IE 1 and 2 were pretty paltry eff

Internet Explorer was first released on August 16, 1995 [1] for as part of the Microsoft Plus! pack for Windows 95. That said, IE 1 and 2 were pretty paltry efforts and Microsoft's attack against Netscape didn't really get going until IE 3, which came out in '96 [2]. As I understand it, this was also the first release of Internet Explorer that was packaged with the operating system, as it was shipped with the Windows 95 OSR2 service pack. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_3