http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-History-of-the-Browser-User-Agent-string-27878268 en Sun, 19 May 2013 02:43:21 EDT Sun, 19 May 2013 02:43:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-History-of-the-Browser-User-Agent-string-27878989
Some of that was necessary during the early browser wars, where Microsoft had some interesting strategies while trying to gain market share, such as inducing artificial delays (timeouts, password failures, etc) in Microsoft's IIS whenever a Netscape browser was used as the client.

Netscape fought back, doing the same thing with their Server, locking out/delaying Internet Explorer clients.

The solution was on the browser side. :p]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-History-of-the-Browser-User-Agent-string-27878989 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:39:26 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-History-of-the-Browser-User-Agent-string-27878772
...but only when identifying as itself, of course. ;)
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»webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

The worse of all of the User Agents is...
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
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