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Online party: You crashed the house!

Tuesday, 6. September 2005, 09:05:37

In 24 hours, more than three million people got their free registration codes
In 24 hours, half a million people downloaded Opera from our servers (a new all-time high). We expect that our party partner Download.com had a significantly higher download number but we can't confirm an exact figure
In 24 hours, tens of thousands of people downloaded our employees' music file and the party video
In 24 hours, we received 250 creative birthday greetings and we'll post our 100 favorites soon!

In the recent wake of Opera's birthday festivities, we would like to present to our community the new my.opera!

Comments

prathajain # 6. September 2005, 15:32

Congratulations to the entire team at Opera! You deserve a BIGGER party now

I'm a first time user of any blog on the internet. Never really bothered about it! But the features and interface you have provided are quite appreciated and enthralling.

I am a student of Masters of Computer Applications at one of the finest institutions in India. Will surely spread the word here!!

Best Wishes,
Pratha Jain
PGDCA-2008
IMT-Ghaziabad.
India

dan1el # 6. September 2005, 16:50

We want the winners now!!

RedPingüim # 6. September 2005, 17:00

Thank you about free registration..

ursdeep # 6. September 2005, 17:51

Keep up the Good Work

richsparks # 6. September 2005, 22:37

I want to send you my birthday card!, what is the email to send to?

SergeantHobo # 7. September 2005, 00:57

Three million free registration codes?! And great job on the new Opera Community site.

SAFETEST # 7. September 2005, 03:04

i logged on at 7.pm tuesday est and the free registration were not open
i re logged on at 1 pm wednesday est the registration were closed that not 24hrs somethings fishy

haavard # 7. September 2005, 09:39

The codes were available for more than 24 hours, IIRC. It started some time in the afternoon on Tuesday, and ended at midnight on Wednesday.

crazypig # 7. September 2005, 11:14

I missed the free registration but I'll be ready in 2016.

bhtooefr # 7. September 2005, 14:30

SAFETEST: You could have been suffering from the Slashdotting, although I got on around 11AM EDT, when the /.ing was in full force...

asgs # 8. September 2005, 00:56

I want free registration Opera?

morgul1 # 8. September 2005, 09:02

keep up the good work Opera.

seaspace # 8. September 2005, 09:19

Oh!very cool!
that's good idea!

Oromis # 8. September 2005, 16:54

Great party, cool reg code... In the 'question of the week' I voted 'other' because I prefer AllTheWeb (Yahoo front end with enhancements) and Hotbot (Inktomi) as my search defaults, with Google third. If Dogpile and Metacrawler were easy to strip a search string from I would have them in my search.ini (which I keep having to edit in new version lines for every few updates) as well. See you on the Web (malware immunity provided by Opera W3C browser, competent antivirus/firewall, and lack of tendency to just 'click here' in mystery websites).

RunnyBabbit # 8. September 2005, 20:27

I liked the idea of having singing lawyers, at the party.

I agree with Oromis. AllTheWeb search lets you use lots of different ways of finding what you want, with its Boolean search. You can also specify a certain site to search, or a page title, or a domain, and more. It's a very powerful tool.

On the other hand, it's getting harder and harder to weed out all those unwanted commercial sites, when using Google.

dropoutwannabe # 9. September 2005, 05:27

Hi, people!

Congratulations for the new community site!

I'm studying Engineering in Argentina, sadly there are not many Opera fans here, however that's about to change. Before I die, I'm planning to write a book, plant a tree, have a child and make an Opera user out of everyone I have the chance to talk to for more than five minutes!!!!! hehehe

GREAT party!

See you around

Luz

draz99 # 9. September 2005, 09:19

Thank U for the reg codes. I wanted to ask if these codes will work for future upgrades..

manishmalhan # 10. September 2005, 10:59

Hi Opera Team..
really feeling nice to visit on opera website.. n the best part in it is a freehand use of web tools..definately it will help for those who are not very much aware bout website development..
Keep it up... n Best wishes for ur all future plannings...

Cheers....
Manish Malhan
MCSD,M.Sc(Comp. Sc), M.A(Eng)
9719.....()

lkane # 11. September 2005, 03:47

Thanks to Opera for your wonderful gift on your 10th Anniversary to share with the world. A former student who I had introduced to Opera notified me and I didn't really need the registration code but shared the opportunity with all my students and bought a 10th Anniversary tee shirt which I will wear at our next staff meeting of The Florida Virtual School in October.

I really enjoyed the reading conversation with Håkon Lie and would like to see more in the future.

Thank you, Håkon, for CSS and your work with Opera!

lkane # 11. September 2005, 03:48

SolThing # 11. September 2005, 07:44

I totally enjoy the Opera vantage. Thanks so much for sharing your work. The free registration is very cool.

Happy Birthday, Folks! & Best Wishes.

power_2005 # 11. September 2005, 11:53

Opera; I like your sites and I love your downloads. Because they are fast , even for dial ups... Robert/Australia..XXXOOOXXX..

Sushubh # 11. September 2005, 20:35

how many codes did opera release?

cajunman4life # 12. September 2005, 00:20

I just wanted to say congratulations Opera. I'm a new convert, and I love the browser! Great party also! If I ever buy another PDA, I'll purchase a license to run Opera on it as well. Thanks again, and happy 10th!

Mucky # 18. September 2005, 09:53

eh!

trolleydolly # 18. September 2005, 15:08

And thank you for sharing, first time I went to a birthday party and received a gift myself! Looked like you all had a fabulous and well deserved time of it. well done!