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Comment by bhelkey

> Internet Explorer 6 did not have tabs.

Turns out tabs were added in IE 7 [1] about 2/3rds of the way through Windows XP's lifecycle.

> Like I said, technologies were just being invented... Each new version was better than the one before. Can you say that now?

That is largely what the article is saying. Software is getting worse BUT software improved by leaps and bounds for quite a while. These improvements compounded over time meaning that new software (while regressing) is still much better than software from the 1990s and 2000s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_7

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