You typed in the URL, waited an appropriate amount of time, and somehow landed here. Welcome to Internet Explorer Tan — the internet's most lovingly sarcastic shrine to the browser that defined an era, broke a million websites, and somehow still haunts your dreams. Pull up a plastic chair from 2003 and stay awhile.
Jul 19, 2026
Internet Explorer may have received its official death certificate back in 2022, but somewhere deep in the fluorescent-lit bowels of corporate America, its ghost is still clocking in at 9 AM. We talked to the sysadmins, the vendors, and the haunted developers who are living this nightmare — and somehow, incredibly, laughing about it.
Jul 16, 2026
Think you've moved on from Internet Explorer? Your CSS habits say otherwise. This field guide helps you identify the telltale twitches, irrational workarounds, and deeply embedded coping mechanisms that mark a developer forever shaped by the blue 'e' of doom.
Jul 15, 2026
Internet Explorer was officially retired in June 2022. Someone forgot to tell the Fortune 500. Meet the developers who celebrated IE's funeral, bought the cake, and then showed up to work Monday morning to find an ActiveX control that controls a $40 million manufacturing line.
Jul 15, 2026
Somewhere out there, a perfectly healthy developer is deliberately breaking their own website in Internet Explorer — and smiling about it. Meet the masochistic subculture of legacy browser testers who believe that if your layout survives IE6, it can survive anything.
Jul 15, 2026
Before you could write a single div, before you could float a single image, there was a question that determined your entire fate: did you remember the DOCTYPE? Internet Explorer's quirks mode vs. standards mode war was the original trolley problem of web development, and spoiler alert — we kept pulling the wrong lever. Decades later, the ghosts of that decision are still haunting your codebase.
Jul 14, 2026
Your first browser wasn't just a window to the internet — it was a psychological stress test in disguise. For millions of developers who cut their teeth on Internet Explorer, the scars run deep, the workarounds run deeper, and the therapy bills are still loading.
Jul 13, 2026
Microsoft officially pulled the plug on Internet Explorer in June 2022, but the real story is how it took them six years of corporate hand-wringing, half-measures, and developer screaming to get there. Grab a folding chair and a deprecated stylesheet — we're walking through every painful, glorious step of the slowest software retirement in tech history.
Jul 12, 2026
Imagine a museum dedicated entirely to Internet Explorer's most iconic — and occasionally catastrophic — design choices, UI quirks, and error messages. We built one. In article form. Come for the spinning 'e', stay for the crash dialogs that defined an era of digital anxiety.
Jul 11, 2026