Internet explorer is a popular web browser developed and supported by Microsoft ,for their Windows line of operating systems . The initial release of Internet explorer was on 1995 with Internet explorer 1 and latest one is Internet explorer 8. So in total there were 8 internet explorer releases . Here you can download earlier versions of internet explorer from version one to eight .

The first version of internet explorer was only near 1MB in size and the size gradually increased there after .

Internet Explorer 1.0 (4.40.308)
Internet Explorer 1.5 (0.1.0.10)
Internet Explorer 2.01 (2.01.046)
Internet Explorer 3.0 (3.0.1152)
Internet Explorer 4.01 (4.72.3110.0)
Internet Explorer 5.01 (5.00.3314.2100)
Internet Explorer 5.5 (5.51.4807.2300)
Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2800.1106)
Internet Explorer 6.0 (6.00.2900.2180)
Internet Explorer 7.0 (7.00.5730.13)
Internet Explorer 8.0 (8.00.6001.18702) .

Market share of Internet explorer is getting worse each day .The release of Internet explorer 8 didn’t created much hype as Microsoft expected . Check out the market share of popular browsers . It seems that its a negative sign for Microsoft and Internet explorer .Anyway, this portable collection of previous versions of  Internet explorer might help developers or web enthusiasts to know more about the eventual growth and fall of of MS IE . Download also contains a developer toolbar for checking the compatibility of web design with Internet explorer .

Download earlier versions of Internet explorer .