At work today, I was testing some JavaScript code on Netscape 4.8 — yeah, I know who uses Netscape 4.x? — when it occurred to me to test the same code on old versions of Internet Explorer.
Of course, that meant a jump on Google to find “Internet Explorer 4“, which lead me to browsers.evolt.org. Oh. My.
Long ago and far away when squinty.com was a lot bigger than it is, Jay had a page that let you “browse like it’s 1999”. He had early versions of Mosaic available for download. evolt not only has Mosaic but also Lynx! Takes me back …
So when I discovered there were multiple versions of IE available, I downloaded 4.01 SP2 and 5.01 SP2 for testing. But how do you get multiple versions of IE to launch on one machine? I’d tried Googling that information years back, but got nowhere.
Now, someone has figured it out. (Actually, my point of reference was a post on a bulletin board that only seemed to work if you followed it from Google. The information is the same.) In a matter of minutes, I was launching multiple versions of IE in one sitting. Very, very handy.