Wednesday marked the end of the once-dominant browser, the ‘Internet Explorer’. Microsoft said a year ago that it was putting an end to Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022, urging users to switch to its Edge browser, which was launched in 2015.

Users bid farewell to Explorer in a series of tweets, with some referring to it as a “bug-ridden, insecure POS” or the “top browser for installing other browsers.” Others reminisced the browser with 90′s nostalgia memes. The Wall Street Journal quoted a 22-year-old who was sad to see IE go.

Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, the antediluvian era of web surfing dominated by the first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator. Its launch signaled the beginning of the end of Navigator: Microsoft went on to tie IE and its ubiquitous Windows operating system together so tightly that many people simply used it by default instead of Navigator.

IE’s market share, which in the early 2000s was over 90%, began to fade as users found more appealing alternatives such as Mozilla’s Firefox, Opera and Google’s Chrome.

Today, 65% of the market is dominated by the Chrome browser, followed by Apple’s Safari with 19%, according to internet analytics company Statcounter. IE’s heir, Edge, lags with about 4%, just ahead of Firefox.

The 27-year-old IE application now joins BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems and Palm Pilots in the dustbin of tech history.