“Come on, you bastard,” Dale whispered, tapping his CRT monitor’s bezel. The rest of the office had gone home. Only the hum of the server rack and the soft chirp of a 56k modem keeping a single line alive kept him company.
The download finished.
It is important to note that IE 5.0 SP2 is not the same as IE 5.5 . IE 5.5 was a separate feature release (August 2000) that introduced printing improvements and more CSS support. IE 5.0 SP2 was the final form of the IE 5.0 branch. microsoft internet explorer 5.0sp2
: Introduced the History and Search Explorer Bars , the Windows Radio Bar toolbar, and the AutoComplete feature for forms and addresses. “Come on, you bastard,” Dale whispered, tapping his
IE5 SP2 was heavily tied to the release of Windows 2000. If you were a systems administrator or a power user making the jump from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 Professional, you were using IE5 SP2. It was the browser that proved the "Active Desktop" concept could actually work in a business environment without crashing the OS (mostly). The download finished