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Internet Explorer tombstone goes viral in South Korea
June 19, 2022
|The Straits Times
For Mr Jung Ki-young, a South Korean software engineer, Microsoft's decision to retire its Internet Explorer Web browser marked the end of a quarter-century love-hate relationship with the technology.
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To commemorate its demise, he spent a month and 430,000 won (S$470) designing and ordering a headstone with Explorer's "e" logo and the English epitaph: "He was a good tool to download other browsers." After the memorial went on show at a cafe run by his brother in the southern city of Gyeongju, a photo of the tombstone went viral.
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