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 develop

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?