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Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer launched in August 1995, bundled directly with Microsoft Windows 95, and it went on to dominate the browser market so completely by the early 2000s that it became the subject of a major United States antitrust case examining Microsoft's bundling practices. Internet Explorer's market dominance, at one point reaching an estimated 95 percent global browser market share, gave Microsoft outsized influence over web standards during the late 1990s and early 2000s, a period often criticized by web developers for widespread compatibility issues caused by IE-specific quirks. Microsoft officially retired Internet Explorer in June 2022, formally ending support and redirecting remaining users to Microsoft Edge, closing out a run of nearly three decades that had spanned the browser's total market dominance through its long decline against Firefox and Chrome. Internet Explorer's combination of its unprecedented historic market dominance and its central role in a landmark Microsoft antitrust case has made it one of the most consequential pieces of software in the history of the internet.
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Apple Safari
Apple Safari launched in January 2003, built on the open-source WebKit rendering engine, which Apple had forked from the KHTML engine originally developed for the Linux-based KDE desktop environment. Safari became the default and, for many years, exclusive pre-installed browser on Apple's Mac computers and later on iPhone and iPad following the 2007 launch of iOS, giving it guaranteed default-browser status across the entirety of Apple's hardware ecosystem. The WebKit engine that powers Safari has had an outsized influence on mobile web standards specifically, since Apple's strict App Store policies have historically required all third-party iOS browsers, including Chrome and Firefox on iPhone, to use Apple's WebKit engine under the hood rather than their own rendering engines. Apple Safari's combination of its guaranteed default status across every Apple device and its WebKit engine's outsized influence over mobile web standards has made it one of the most structurally significant browsers in the industry.
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