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jonathansampson on Feb 26, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine

IE is (originally) based on NCSA Mosaic code, by way of Spyglass. Spyglass had nearly 70 or so vendors using the same code if I'm not mistaken.

The original source code of IE 1 can be seen (an Easter egg) in the video on our blog post (at about 40 seconds): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/02/26/a-break-from-t....

ethomson on Feb 27, 2015 | [–]

More than 100, in fact. But in the end only one of those vendors actually mattered.

wluu on Feb 27, 2015 | [–]

That's a really cool easter egg :)

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