# A good tool for downloading...

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-tool-for-downloading/652244
**Category:** talk
**Created:** [June 16, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-tool-for-downloading/652244 "2022-06-16T18:30:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2022, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-tool-for-downloading/652244/1 "2022-06-16T18:30:38Z")

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> <https://twitter.com/ksoonson/status/1536938327395680256>

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### Author: ![steve.mills](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/steve.mills/32/14961_2.png) [@steve.mills](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/steve.mills)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-tool-for-downloading/652244/2 "2022-06-17T01:16:57Z")

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😄 some dev hated IE that much they bought the tombstone and plot…

Maybe Microsoft screwed them as well…

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### Author: ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2022, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-tool-for-downloading/652244/3 "2022-06-17T05:16:47Z")

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From back when I was on the IE/Edge team, Japan and Korea were one of the biggest users of IE. The companies there had many legacy applications built on it…which probably meant a lot of developers who were forced to maintain those apps. That _ **only** _ one tombstone was built is surprising haha.

🙂

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### Author: ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-tool-for-downloading/652244/4 "2022-06-18T00:55:50Z")

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Back when IE 5 came out it was actually quite amazing what you could do with it. There were a bunch of features that were great for developing web applications… only they’d be specific to IE and wouldn’t work in other browsers 🙃

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### Author: ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-tool-for-downloading/652244/5 "2022-06-19T01:02:14Z")

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I strongly remember the full page ads in magazines you would see for IE4 and IE5. Those ads would be behind a shiny gray/silver color background. Those really popped out back then.

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### Author: ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2022, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-good-tool-for-downloading/652244/6 "2022-06-19T13:57:39Z")

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Rest In Peace Internet Explorer. Everybody hated you but I still used you for some reason.