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Comment by Dylan16807

16 days ago

They were asking about "internet" versus "internet explorer", so that's not relevant.

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aleph_minus_one  16 days ago

The Internet Explorer is not for exploring the internet, but the world wide web, so the name never did make sense.

  • jamesnorden  16 days ago

    I guess intranets don't exist.

  • direwolf20  16 days ago

    Actually, it views HTML. But if you call it Microsoft HTML Viewer and then wonder why nobody clicks on it.........

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