2026-07-26 12:01 UTC
#OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1996, AT&T and Microsoft partnered to distribute Internet Explorer. The deal expanded the browser's reach and marked a major turning point in the race to dominate the early Web.
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-26 21:25
@ACM@mastodon.acm.org > the race to dominate the early Web. You say that like it's a good thing, for someone to dominate something widely used that they didn't even create. The web was doing fine before they came along and did their best to own it.