This undated handout photo shows a grave for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which was retired by the company earlier this week after 27 years, in honour of the browser's ‘death’, on the rooftop of a cafe in South Korea’s southern city of Gyeongju. — Courtesy of Kiyoung Jung/AFP
SEOUL: A South Korean engineer who built a grave for Internet Explorer – photos of which quickly went viral – told AFP on June 17 that the now-defunct web browser had made his life a misery.
South Korea, which has some of the world’s fastest average Internet speeds, remained bizarrely wedded to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which was retired by the company earlier this week after 27 years.
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This undated handout photo shows a grave for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which was retired by the company earlier this week after 27 years, in honour of the browser's ‘death’, on the rooftop of a cafe in South Korea’s southern city of Gyeongju. — Courtesy of Kiyoung Jung/AFP
This undated handout photo shows a grave for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which was retired by the company earlier this week after 27 years, in honour of the browser's ‘death’, on the rooftop of a cafe in South Korea's southern city of Gyeongju. A South Korean engineer who built a grave for Internet Explorer – photos of which quickly went viral – told AFP on June 17 that the now-defunct web browser had made his life a misery. — Courtesy of Kiyoung Jung/AFP
This undated handout photo shows a grave for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which was retired by the company earlier this week after 27 years, in honour of the browser's ‘death’, on the rooftop of a cafe in South Korea's southern city of Gyeongju. — Courtesy of Kiyoung Jung/AFP
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