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The first version of Internet Explorer for the Macintosh operating system was a beta version of Internet Explorer 2. 0 for Macintosh, released on January 23, 1996 as a free download from Microsoft's website.

This first version was based on the Spyglass Mosaic web browser licensed from Spyglass.

Available for both 68k and PPC based Macs running System 7. 0. 1 or later, it supported the embedding of a number of multimedia formats into web pages, including AVI and QuickTime formatted video and AIFF and WAV formatted audio.

The final version was released three months later on April 23.

Version 2. 1 released in August of the same year, was mostly aimed at fixed bugs and improving stability, but also added a few features such as support for the NPAPI ( the first version of Internet Explorer on any platform to do so ) and support for QuickTime VR.

AOL 3. 0 for Macintosh used the IE 2. 1 rendering engine in its built-in web browser.