I used Internet Explorer 6, on Windows XP, on a desktop from 2002, connected to a slow network

I experienced frustration. Anger. Hate. All at the same time.

Anyway, I was in an airport lounge, waiting for my plane, when I decided to browse the internet using the computers provided. They weren’t state of the art, in fact, the exact opposite — decade old IBM desktops with Windows XP and gasp, IE6. Let’s recap — no tabs, massive security flaws and in fact, I couldn’t even load Google.com there (which may actually be Google’s dropping of IE6 support).

The slow network made it worse — IE6 isn’t exactly a speed champ and it took a good 2 minutes to open almost any website. Anyway, the lesson here is that if you own a desktop with XP and IE6 on it, you should probably replace it. And by probably, I mean do so. Like, pronto.