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by ilovwindows 1777 days ago
Many people might not know, but early version of IE was built on top of Mosaic, the first web browser, created by same people who built Netscape Navigator.

Also, IE didn't win because it was better than Navigator but it was shipped free with Windows OS.

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> IE didn't win because it was better than Navigator

But it surely did help.

IE was not better than navigator. Everybody i know would use netscape instead of IE. IE won because it was shipped with the OS and some people will not bother to download something else.