I know right, what year is this?

I do. It's year of the Google (c), like every year.

(David Foster Wallace was wrong, there's no way a company of Google's caliber would settle for anything less than a whole decade.)

Is it? To me it feels like Google is about where Microsoft was in 2002.

Case in point: This thread about using anything other than Chrome…

What’s your preferred browser?

Anything that isn't Chrome.

If I could have my way, NCSA Mosaic.

Wish granted: https://archive.org/details/mosaic-ncsa-evolt_browsers

Worked fine in Firefox.

Also, worked fine in Safari mobile reader mode.