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Hot take: Netscape Navigator 4.0 was actually better than Internet Explorer 5
Everyone in 1999 was ditching Netscape for IE, but I stuck with it because the bookmark management actually made sense. IE's "favorites" folder system was a mess compared to Netscape's hierarchical lists, and I still miss that feature today. Anyone else think the underdog got a bad rap?
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parkerb752mo ago
Had a buddy back then who switched to IE5 and immediately regretted it when his boss asked him to find a specific company policy from six months back. He had like 200 bookmarks in IE all dumped flat into one folder with no way to sort them. Took him two days to find the right page and he got chewed out. Meanwhile my brother, who kept his Netscape bookmarks in neat folders by project, could pull up anything in seconds. That bookmark system was simple but it actually worked for how people organize stuff in their heads. IE's way felt like they just copied the basic idea without understanding why anyone would need categories.
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lily5112mo ago
My brother lost three hours hunting for one link in IE's flat bookmark list and almost threw his monitor.
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