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Geeks to hold open casket funeral for Internet Explorer 6
Internet Explorer Six will not slip quietly into the night.
Nope.
More than a hundred computer geeks and fans are expected to attend a funeral for the outdated browser 7 p.m. today, Thursday, March 4, in Denver.
Aten Design announced the death of Internet Explorer 6 on the tongue-in-cheek website ie6funeral.com. It features an obit of sorts:
Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010 in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc. Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as “IE6,” is survived by son Internet Explorer Seven, and grand-daughter Internet Explorer Eight.
IE6 isn’t dead exactly, but as CNN explains, its becoming obsolete and running out of friends. Younger, faster, cuter browser are replacing it in the hearts and minds of the computing public.
Google Docs and Google Sites stop supporting the still widely used browser Monday and YouTube will do the same March 13, CNN says.
The ‘funeral’ will include a “casket, a body, and from all appearances, mourners a-plenty,” an Aten representative told tomshardware.com.
What do you think?
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By Am I a geek?
March 4, 2010 5:47 PM | Link to this
What exactly is a geek? How is it different than a normal computer user?
By null
March 4, 2010 6:18 PM | Link to this
LOVE IT!! Snort!
By Undertaker
March 5, 2010 10:48 AM | Link to this
I think the funeral was yesterday and it should not be reported in today’s paper. Hence the phrase “Dead and Gone”