Pastiche-age
"It began with the forging of The Great IE. Three dozen standards were broken in HTML, immortal, wisest, and fairest of all web standards; seven dozen standards in CSS, great craftsman of the the new web; and nine... nine dozen exploits were given to Hackers, who above all else desire power. For within IE was bound the strength and will to govern all the web. But they were all deceived- for another IE was to be made. In the land of Redmond, in the fires of Monopoly, the dark lord Gates forged, in secret, a master IE, to control all others- and into this IE he poured his cruelty, his malice, and his will to dominate all the web- One thing to rule them all. One by one, the free standards of the web fell to the power of IE. But there were some who resisted. A last alliance of Men and Women, marched against the armies of Redmond, and on the slopes of Monopoly, they fought for the freedom of the web. Victory was near- but the power of IE could not be undone. It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Firefox, son of the Netscape and Mozilla, took up his father's legacy. IE, the enemy of the free peoples of the web was defeated. IE passed to the OEMs, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever. But the hearts of men are easily corrupted, and IE a Power and a will of its own." - Taken from a SpreadFireFox comment.