Internet Explorer 9 32 Bit 🎉

Here’s a short, interesting story-like dive into — a browser that arrived like a paradox, loved by developers but ignored by the world. In the spring of 2011, the web was a battlefield. Firefox was gaining ground, Chrome was sprinting ahead, and Internet Explorer — still bruised from the IE6 debacle — was trying to stage a comeback.

And that saved it.

Here’s where it gets strange.