A Brief History
On June 15, 2022, Microsoft retired its iconic internet browser, Internet Explorer, in favor of its new system, Microsoft Edge. Browsing the internet has become a fact of daily life for almost everyone old enough to read and write, providing entertainment, information, trivia, communications, news, and what that odd looking bird you saw in your yard is.
Digging Deeper
While Microsoft is a giant in the computer industry, the most widely used browser is Google Chrome. Other innovations and features that make internet browsing rewarding include:
Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia free to use and of incredible diversity of information, although of sometimes questionable reliability. Still, it is a wonderful tool for the casual browser.
The computer mouse and touch pad, which are both much more convenient than using directional arrows.
And, Smart Phones, which allow people to access the net from wherever they happen to be, even without a computer or Wi-Fi access, helping to find restaurants, hospitals, and directions as well as random information.
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please see…
Bernstein, James. The Internet Made Easy: Find What You’ve Been Searching For. Independently published, 2019.
Levine, John and Margaret Levine Young. The Internet For Dummies. For Dummies, 2015.
The featured image in this article, a photograph by Ruslan Krivobok / Руслан Кривобок of via Commons:RIA Novosti, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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