Yeah, I feel like in general IE kinda gets a bad rep nowadays because of it's very very slow corporate demise but it really was an innovator at it's start. Heck, IE4 allows you to integrate it in Win95 & NT4 and patch explorer.exe, enabling forward/back buttons, multimedia, and all kinds of web features when browsing folders. It's a UI standard that's still present in Win 11, 29 years later.

EDIT: Oops... Okay, yeah, I deserve the downvotes there. Perhaps I was a little too enthused about what brought years of stagnation and backbreaking workarounds to the web. But it's hard to understate how game-changing the address bar was to explorer.exe. It was like a whole new OS.