Remember those "best experienced with [browser name]" badges?
"MTV's revamped World Wide Web site for MTV contains a heavy amount of original music content and a unique Web browser design. [...] Some of the site's best content, including a grossly
appealing game with Beavis & Butt-head, is designed exclusively for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser."
https://cybercultural.com/p/browser-war-1990s/
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Best Experienced With: MTV.com and the 90s Browser War
MTV's website in 1997 was a hodgepodge of technologies: Java, JavaScript, frames and more. The quality of your user experience depended on which browser you used: Netscape or IE.
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Richard MacManus@ricmac@mastodon.social