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nisse72 on March 13, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions...

In the mid 90's, before Linux had gained any traction in corporate environments, IE was available for some flavours of Unix such as Solaris and HP-UX. In the Solaris shop I was working at the time, I remember we had a great laughs at the slogan they were using: "Bringing the internet to Unix". I don't believe it was particularly popular and it dissapeared quietly a few years later:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX

DougMerritt on March 13, 2015 [–]

That is laughably ballsy. Bringing coal to Newcastle, as they used to say.

Hey Michelangelo, sign up for my art class and I'll show you how it's done.

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