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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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Google Chrome
Google Chrome launched in September 2008, built on the open-source Chromium project and Google's own V8 JavaScript engine, which was specifically designed to execute JavaScript significantly faster than the engines used by rival browsers at the time. Chrome's multi-process architecture, running each tab as a separate process rather than a single shared process, was a genuinely novel design choice for a mainstream browser in 2008, meaning a crash in one tab wouldn't take down the entire browser window. Chrome grew to become the dominant web browser worldwide by market share within a few years of launch, and its open-source Chromium engine has since become the foundation for numerous other browsers, including Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Brave. Google Chrome's combination of its pioneering multi-process tab architecture and its Chromium engine becoming the foundation for much of the modern browser market has made it one of the most influential pieces of software of the internet era.
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