Neither IE nor the IE experience was ugly for that time, the time when they decided to introduce ActiveX. Infact, it was the hip browser. I used to remember bei

Neither IE nor the IE experience was ugly for that time, the time when they decided to introduce ActiveX. Infact, it was the hip browser. I used to remember being on Netscape (my fav/default browser) and unable to browse most modern sites as they were designed specifically for IE, similar to how you now come around those "works only on chrome/webkit" sites.