Watch: Microsoft Resorts to 90s Nostalgia to Sell Internet Explorer

Children of the 90s—remember Lunchables and Norfin Trolls? How about bowl cuts, Lisa Frank and Hungry Hungry Hippos? Those things were awesome, weren’t they? But do you remember which web browser we were using back in the day when we were wearing Yin-Yang necklaces and Oregon Trailing it up? Internet Explorer, of course! And Microsoft is hoping that a little 90s flashback will entice you to reconnect with Internet Explorer in 2013.

Children of the 90s—remember Lunchables and Norfin Trolls?  How about bowl cuts, Lisa Frank and Hungry Hungry Hippos?  Those things were awesome, weren’t they?  But do you remember which web browser we were using back in the day when we were wearing Yin-Yang necklaces and Oregon Trailing it up?  Internet Explorer, of course!  And Microsoft is hoping that a little 90s flashback will entice you to reconnect with Internet Explorer in 2013.

This week Microsoft released a YouTube video called ‘Child of the 90s’ as part of their Browser You Loved To Hate campaign.

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