Internet Exploiter

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Internet Exploiter
Usage: n.

See Also: Exploder, Netscrape


Internet Exploiter: n.

Another common name-of-insult for Internet Explorer, Microsoft's overweight Web Browser; more hostile than Internet Exploder. Reflects widespread hostility to Microsoft and a sense that it is seeking to hijack, monopolize, and corrupt the Internet. Compare Exploder and the less pejorative Netscrape.

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Sources

Source: Internet Exploiter, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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