1979 – 1998retired
Intel 8086
“The ancestor at every modern desk — 29,290 descendants and counting.”
“Built in Research Triangle Park, browsed the early web, and asked for so little in return.”
IBM WebExplorer was an early web browser designed at IBM facilities in the Research Triangle Park, built for OS/2. For people who called OS/2 home, it was their window onto a young and promising web. It did its job the way IBM things tended to: steadily, without drama.
By 1998, IBM retired the WebExplorer as the OS/2 world it served grew quiet. What it left behind is the memory of an early browser made with care for a platform its users refused to stop loving. Rest well; the web you helped open is still here.
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“The ancestor at every modern desk — 29,290 descendants and counting.”
“The x stood for 68030, and for a Mac that finally read your floppies right.”
“It taught the mouse where to go, then quietly closed its window.”