It’s time for a blast stuck in the past! I wanted to celebrate April Fool’s Day 2024 with a battle that’s been in the back of my mind almost as long as I’ve been in this community. Coming from the distant year of 1995 is Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows’ infamous web browser with a well-earned rocky reputation, versus the lovable off-color Padparadscha, an orange Sapphire who can only “predict” past events.


Quizzique as Internet Explorer
garbageGothic as Padparadscha

Written, Edited, Mixed by garbageGothic
Beat Produced by GC

Steven Universe title card generator (https://web.archive.org/web/201711141...)
Animation vs Anything thumbnail by Eddiefrb
CRT 3d model sourced from cadnav.com

Thumbnail by garbageGothic
Sun Incinerator model by SleepyEngi


Special thanks to Eddiefrb, MakeMeMad Gaming, ThanosQuack, Shimario Sucks, and everyone in FRB. Happy 1 year anniversary of GGRB!







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internet explorer (formerly microsoft internet explorer and windows internet explorer, commonly abbreviated as ie or msie) is a retired series of graphical web browsers developed by microsoft that were used in the windows line of operating systems. while ie has been discontinued on most windows editions, it remains supported on certain editions of windows, such as windows 10 ltsb/ltsc. starting in 1995, it was first released as part of the add-on package plus! for windows 95 that year. later versions were available as free downloads or in-service packs and included in the original equipment manufacturer (oem) service releases of windows 95 and later versions of windows. microsoft spent over us$100 million per year on internet explorer in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people involved in the project by 1999. new feature development for the browser was discontinued in 2016 and ended support on june 15, 2022 for windows 10 semi-annual channel (sac), in favor of its successor, microsoft edge. internet explorer was once the most widely used web browser, attaining a peak of 95% usage share by 2003. it has since fallen out of general use after retirement. this came after microsoft used bundling to win the first browser war against netscape, which was the dominant browser in the 1990s. its usage share has since declined with the launches of firefox (2004) and google chrome (2008) and with the growing popularity of mobile operating systems such as android and ios that do not support internet explorer. microsoft edge, ie's successor, first overtook internet explorer in terms of market share in november 2019. versions of internet explorer for other operating systems have also been produced, including an xbox 360 version called internet explorer for xbox and for platforms microsoft no longer supports: internet explorer for mac and internet explorer for unix (solaris and hp-ux), and an embedded oem version called pocket internet explorer, later rebranded internet explorer mobile, made for windows ce, windows phone, and, previously, based on internet explorer 7, for windows phone 7. the browser has been scrutinized throughout its development for its use of third-party technology (such as the source code of spyglass mosaic, used without royalty in early versions) and security and privacy vulnerabilities, and the united states and the european union have determined that the integration of internet explorer with windows has been to the detriment of fair browser competition.

padparadscha is an unaligned gem. after escaping an abandoned homeworld kindergarten facility, she made her way to earth on board the sun incinerator alongside lars barriga and other defective and abnormal gems known as the off colors, eventually arriving alongside them in "change your mind". while sapphires are supposed to have visions into the future, padparadscha's visions are of events that have occurred in the recent past. she made her debut in "off colors". after the events of "little graduation", she and the rest of the off colors have returned to space. padparadscha was considered defective and cast aside due to her visions being of events that have already occurred, rendering her visions useless. eventually, she joined a group of other defective gems, hiding with them in the tunnels of an abandoned kindergarten to avoid being shattered and resided there for eons.