Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment order> Microsoft forced people to install their browser, and other tasteless things. > Windows 95 was also heavily about choice. I recently received a tech support phone call from my mother because her "computer was showing an error that she only has one drive working, and it's really slow. I need all my drives!" Windows computers are throwing errors now if you don't have OneDrive configured. Tasteless. I'm so sick of this. I don't want OneDrive, I don't want Teams…
I know enough about the antitrust situation wherein Microsoft essentially forced IE on everyone in a bid to drive Netscape (successfully) to irrelevance, but I guess I don't really understand _why_? Can someone with more of a sense of history elucidate me as to what Microsoft's motivation was around this, since IE itself was always free? I guess I need this expanded out to a greater understanding of the context of the _why_ behind the browser wars in general: was…
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 159
- Total comments
- 144
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-28 | Internet Explorer Is Evil (2002)First breakout · Best thread | kn0where | 118 | 75 |
| 2021-11-30 | Internet Explorer Is Evil | ecliptik | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-08-01 | Internet Explorer Is EvilLatest 20+ point return | kdklol | 39 | 69 |