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I have fond memories of those early versions of Firefox (nee Firebird) that busted open the IE monopoly, Monopoly? Before Firefox/Firebird there was Netscape

• kemayo 12y ago
  Monopolies don't require that there be only one choice... just that one choice is vastly dominant. And at its peak, IE had something over 90% of the market. [1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet-explorer-usage-data.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet-explorer-usage-da...
• chc 12y ago
  The IE monopoly was established by effectively killing Netscape Navigator/Communicator. Mozilla existed, but didn't become a major player until Firefox hit the scene half a decade later.
• Piskvorrr 12y ago
  Apparently, you don't remember the Dark Ages. See, there were other browsers, that much is true. What you're missing is that many, many sites were only developed for IE, and only worked at all in IE. No, not "graceful degradation," not "progressive enhancement," that all came a decade later: if you were not using IE, the sites were very broken, even unusable - and nobody cared: after all, Just Use IE Like All The Normal People Do, right?