Internet Explorer 5

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Internet Explorer 5

Internet Explorer is Microsoft's venture into the Web Browser market. The initial version of Explorer was incarnated from Spyglass Mosaic which Microsoft licensed for a modest quarterly fee and a share of the non-Windows product revenues. As Microsoft decided to distribute Internet Explorer "free of charge" with their Windows operating system, they were able to avoid most royalties. This resulted in a lawsuit and a US$8 million settlement in January 1997. Being included in Windows since Windows 95 and beyond, it quickly overtook Netscape in the first Browser War and retained ~95% of market share until the early 2000's when popular alternative browsers such as Mozilla Firefox came to market sparking the 2nd browser war. Internet Explorer was long known for disobeying set web standards by the W3C until version 9 when Microsoft took a new commitment to HTML5 and web standards.

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MiroslavRD

Internet Explorer is EVIL! EEEEEEEEEEEVIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PrussiaBoi

How can i install this in Windows 3.1? It launches me this error ''Microsoft Internet Tools for Win 3.1/NT 3.51 requires a configuration larger than 4 megabytes for reasonable performance. On smaller machines, please continue to use previous version of Internet Explorer'' In my virtual machine i have 75 MB of RAM and 80 MB of Hard Disk

SomeGuy

This is a bug in the setup program that happens on any machine with more than 16mb of ram. If you are using a virtual machine or emulator, just temporarily reduce the RAM to 8MB or so.

PrussiaBoi

Thank you so much! It worked!

User127182719

For some reason the 16-bit version of IE here doesn't work for me but I found this one that works for me.
Internet Explorer 5.01 16-Bit: https://www.mediafire.com/file/0la2ahoxrrma0l1/ie501.7z/file

Note you have to rename setup.exe to anything other than setup.exe or else the setup won't launch.