{"id":464312,"date":"2022-06-17T10:20:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T07:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/south-korean-engineers-browser-grave-goes-viral\/"},"modified":"2022-06-17T10:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T07:20:44","slug":"south-korean-engineers-browser-grave-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/south-korean-engineers-browser-grave-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"#South Korean engineer&#8217;s browser &#8216;grave&#8217; goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aef2268f05c5\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6aef2268f05c5\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/south-korean-engineers-browser-grave-goes-viral\/#%E2%80%9CSouth_Korean_engineers_browser_%E2%80%98grave_goes_viral%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;South Korean engineer&#8217;s browser &#8216;grave&#8217; goes viral&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CSouth_Korean_engineers_browser_%E2%80%98grave_goes_viral%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;South Korean engineer&#8217;s browser &#8216;grave&#8217; goes viral&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/south-korea-which-has.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/south-korea-which-has.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"South Korea, which has some of the world's fastest average internet speeds, remained bizarrely wedded to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/south-korea-which-has.jpg\" alt=\"South Korea, which has some of the world's fastest average internet speeds, remained bizarrely wedded to Microsoft's Internet Ex\" title=\"South Korea, which has some of the world's fastest average internet speeds, remained bizarrely wedded to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                South Korea, which has some of the world&#8217;s fastest average internet speeds, remained bizarrely wedded to Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A South Korean engineer who built a grave for Internet Explorer\u2014photos of which quickly went viral\u2014told AFP Friday that the now-defunct web browser had made his life a misery.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                South Korea, which has some of the world&#8217;s fastest average internet speeds, remained bizarrely wedded to Microsoft&#8217;s Internet Explorer, which was retired by the company earlier this week after 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>In honour of the browser&#8217;s &#8220;death&#8221;, a gravestone marked with its signature &#8220;e&#8221; logo was set up on the rooftop of a cafe in South Korea&#8217;s southern city of Gyeongju by engineer Kiyoung Jung, 38.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a good tool to use to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download<\/a> other browsers,&#8221; the gravestone&#8217;s inscription reads. <\/p>\n<p>Images of Jung&#8217;s joke tombstone quickly spread online, with users of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> site Reddit upvoting it tens of thousands of times.<\/p>\n<p>Once dominant globally, Internet Explorer was widely reviled in recent years due to its slowness and glitches.<\/p>\n<p>But in South Korea, it was mandatory for online banking and shopping until about 2014, as all such online activities required sites to use ActiveX\u2014a plugin created by Microsoft. <\/p>\n<p>It remained the default browser for many Seoul government sites until very recently, local reports said.<\/p>\n<p>The websites of the Korea Water Resources Corporation and the Korea Expressway Corporation only functioned properly in IE until at least June 10, according to a report by the Maeil Economic Daily.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8216;Suffering&#8217; for IE<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As a software engineer and web developer, Jung told AFP he constantly &#8220;suffered&#8221; at work because of compatibility issues involving the now-defunct browser. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In South Korea, when you are doing web development work, the expectation was always that it should look good in Internet Explorer, rather than Chrome,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Websites that look good in other browsers, such as Safari or Chrome, can look very wrong in IE, which often forced him to spend many extra hours working to ensure compatibility.<\/p>\n<p>Jung said that he was &#8220;overjoyed&#8221; by IE&#8217;s retirement.<\/p>\n<p>But he also said he felt genuinely nostalgic and emotional about the browser&#8217;s demise, as he remembers its heyday\u2014one of the reasons he was inspired to erect the grave stone.<\/p>\n<p>He quoted Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki: &#8220;People are often relieved that machines don&#8217;t have souls, but we as human beings actually give our hearts to them,&#8221; Jung told AFP, explaining his feelings for IE.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was pleased by the response to his joke grave and that he and his brother\u2014who owns the cafe\u2014plan to leave the monument on the rooftop in Gyeongju indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been very exciting to make others laugh,&#8221; he said.\n                                                                                                                        <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                            So long, Internet Explorer. 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