The “DO NOT USE INTERNET EXPLORER” notice at the bottom of that picture is not a Photoshop job, nor is it the from someone who is in the anti-Windows camp. This piece of paper is the front a syllabus distributed today to students at the University of Chicago for a Biology class.

The University of Chicago uses some software called Chalk that’s incompatible with Internet Explorer. Students use Chalk to access documents and information relevant to their academic work. Chalk, however, does not support the caching system that IE uses. As this class in particular relies on the Chalk service a lot, the professor made sure to include a note to his students that the use of IE “will mess up and make you sad.”

Bye Bye, Internet Explorer

More and more, we’re seeing that much of the internet is just done supporting IE’s backwardness. YouTube recently dropped support for Internet Explorer 6, which is unfortunately still the most popular browser in the world. A few months back, if you had visited YouTube with IE6, the site would have …

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