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Internet Explorer Last Day At Browser Party Before Microsoft Shutdown

This meme uses the popular 'they don't know' party template. A character standing alone in the corner wearing a small party hat has the Internet Explorer logo as their head, holding a drink and thinking the text displayed at the top right. The other people at the party are anthropomorphized versions of competing popular web browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Brave, and Opera, all socializing with each other and paying no attention to Internet Explorer. The joke references Microsoft's official end of support and shutdown of the Internet Explorer web browser after decades of public availability.
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they don't know that today is my last day and tomorrow Microsoft is officially shutting me down

Overview

This meme uses the popular 'they don't know' party template. A character standing alone in the corner wearing a small party hat has the Internet Explorer logo as their head, holding a drink and thinking the text displayed at the top right. The other people at the party are anthropomorphized versions of competing popular web browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Brave, and Opera, all socializing with each other and paying no attention to Internet Explorer. The joke references Microsoft's official end of support and shutdown of the Internet Explorer web browser after decades of public availability.

Origin notes

This is a remixed meme adapted from the widely circulated 'they don't know I'm at the party' reaction template. It was shared on X (formerly Twitter) via the meme.jpg RSS feed, created in reference to Microsoft's June 2022 official discontinuation of Internet Explorer support for most consumer operating systems. It gained popularity in tech and internet culture circles for its humorous take on the end of the long-running, often mocked web browser.

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