A REDUCTIVE HISTORY OF THE CURRENT BROWSER MONOCULTURE 1998 🧙🏼‍♂️Internet Explorer sucks! It's closed source just like Netscape! Hmmm... I know! I'll make my own web browser engine! And I'll call it KHTML! Because I am a fucking wizard, and the true mascot of KDE! ⏳TIME PASSES 2000 🧙🏼‍♂️Shit that took longer than I thought, but it's done! And now Konqueror is our FOSS web browser solution! ⏳TIME PASSES 2001 🍎Internet Explorer sucks! But it's the only web browser we got for Mac OS X... ooh, what's this? KHTML? That'll be a good basis for our Webkit project and Safari browser... ⏳TIME PASSES 2013 🔍Internet Explorer sucks! It could have been more evil if it weren't for that pesky Mozilla! ...ooh, what's this? Webkit? We'll make it into our own thing, call it Blink, and make Chrome and Chromium take over the world! Ha ha! ⏳TIME PASSES 2018 🪟Internet Explorer sucks! And we even tried cleaning it up and giving it a facelift! ...ooh, what's this? Chromium? Yeah we can just rebadge this and take the easy route. ⏳TIME PASSES 2023 🐲So, bad news: we're discontinuing KHTML. But, good news: we're using Chromium instead for the HTML widget in Qt and Konqueror, which is a far more mature fork of KHTML! Thanks to Apple, Google, Microsoft, and everyone else for doing all the work for us! SUCKERS 🧙🏼‍♂️Why are you the mascot of KDE now? I'm the original fucking wizard! 🐲Kandalf I thought you went to work in Reelism 2, anyway you were fired for excessive swearing, and now I gotta call security