The retirement of Microsoft Corporation’s Internet Explorer web browser marks the end of a love-hate relationship for Jung Ki-young, a software engineer from South Korea.
To commemorate the end, he ordered a headstone bearing Internet Explorer’s “e” logo and the English epitaph: “He was a good tool to download other browsers.”
An image of the tombstone started making rounds on social media after the monument went on show at a café.
After 27 years, Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer in order to focus on the faster Microsoft Edge browser.
In addition, Jung said that his memorial expressed mixed feelings about the older software, which had played an essential role in his career.
He told Reuters, “It was a pain in the ass, but I would call it a love-hate relationship because Explorer itself once dominated an era.”