https://locodigital.com.br/en/tags/internet-explorer/Recent content in Internet Explorer on LocodigitalHugoen-USMon, 24 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/windows-95-at-31-the-start-button-story/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/windows-95-at-31-the-start-button-story/<p>It was the small hours of August 24, 1995, and there were lines outside computer stores. It wasn't Black Friday. It wasn't a console launch. It was an operating system launch. That genuinely happened — and it happened because Microsoft spent US$200 million to make the world stop and look at Windows 95.</p> <h2>The most anticipated product of 1995</h2> <p>The project was codenamed "Chicago" inside Microsoft. When the product shipped under its final name, it arrived with a marketing campaign the software industry had never seen. Microsoft licensed "Start Me Up" from the Rolling Stones, paying somewhere around US$3 million for the song alone — and played it in stores, in TV commercials and at launch events.</p>https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/the-gif-at-39-from-compuserve-1987-to-today/Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0300https://locodigital.com.br/en/technology/the-gif-at-39-from-compuserve-1987-to-today/<p>On 15 June 1987, a CompuServe programmer named Steve Wilhite published the specification for an image format nobody expected to last decades. The GIF — Graphics Interchange Format — was created to solve a prosaic problem: transmitting colour images over 2,400 bps modems without choking the connection. Today, 39 years on, it is still the lingua franca of memes.</p> <h2>The problem the GIF solved</h2> <p>CompuServe, in 1987, was one of the largest online networks in the United States, long before the web existed. It was a commercial dial-up service — think of a paid proto-internet where people exchanged files and messages through slow terminals.</p>