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Happy 15th birthday Opera Desktop

Tuesday, 28. April 2009, 07:00:00

Celebrating 15 years of browser innovation

Fifteen years ago, two computer scientists sat at their desks in a research lab in what is today Telenor, Norway’s telecommunications incumbent, itching to begin a new project. They were going to build their own Web browser.

Those first keystrokes would become Opera, the browser that has set — and continues to set — the standard for browser innovation. Jon von Tetzchner, the CEO of Opera Software, and Geir Ivarsøy began coding the original desktop Web browser in April 1994. Today, about 40 million people use Opera on their Windows, Mac and Linux computers...

Good stuff worth checking out:

Read our press release.
Why should you use Opera? Here are 15 good reasons.
Most popular Opera innovations.
Settle the debate. See when certain Opera features were introduced first.
Opera CEO, Jon Tetzchner’s account of Opera’s inception and road ahead.
Opera Software CTO Håkon Wium Lie shares his views on what to expect in the next 15 years.
Download the Opera 1.0 skin courtesy of Disco Stu!
Celebrate with Opera. Send your greetings or join a Web talk with Jon at 1:00 p.m. UTC.

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Rafał^ # 28. April 2009, 07:01

Best wishes Opera!

andrew3105 # 28. April 2009, 07:01

Happy birthday!

dantesoft # 28. April 2009, 07:04

Happy Birthday

tagawa # 28. April 2009, 07:12

Happy birthday!
(But you might want to correct the "most popular Opera innovations" link - it leads to a 404.)

EDIT: Link now fixed - thank you.

philry4n # 28. April 2009, 07:13

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!

Uzair_007 # 28. April 2009, 07:15

Happy Birthday to you OPERA. Well i am in Pakistan and i am using both the Telenor connection and the Opera browser:angel:

fearphage # 28. April 2009, 07:16

Happy birthday! i hope the staff gets thoroughly inebriated

Originally posted by tagawa:

"most popular Opera innovations" link - it leads to a 404

I foresee a firefox/safari/chrome user using this quote to zing us.

maybkot # 28. April 2009, 07:19

Congrats! Wish all best to Opera developers! Don't shy to shine:)

SHIVOHAM # 28. April 2009, 07:24

Moderator note: Off-topic comment removed.

ZAHEK # 28. April 2009, 07:30

Best wishes...

Qflee # 28. April 2009, 07:31

Happy Birthday:)
Selamat Ulang Tahun.

imac # 28. April 2009, 07:36

Happy birthday. Hope the party is a good one. And thank you from everyone who cared about web standards before it was commonplace to follow them for all you have done over the years. If you wasn't for your dream, we'd still be browsing with...well...you know...that 'thing'

melnichuck # 28. April 2009, 07:39

Rock Opera!

Rosetta2002 # 28. April 2009, 07:46

Wishing you all the best, Wishing you all the good luck, Wishing you all the blessings, Wishing all good things will happen in your way, Opera!

Thank you again for making and sharing the best browser in the world.

Rock on, Opera! Happy 15th birthday to you~

lachralle # 28. April 2009, 07:48

Great news, keep on setting the standards!

KristianP # 28. April 2009, 08:07

Happy Birthday!!!

piazava # 28. April 2009, 08:14

Hurra hurra hurraaah!

Snapphane # 28. April 2009, 08:26

Happy birthday kid

drunkensurgeon # 28. April 2009, 08:29

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

Gratulerer med dagen...

phamlam # 28. April 2009, 08:29

Hura birthday

Kq79 # 28. April 2009, 08:31

Happy birthday !!!

Galileo # 28. April 2009, 08:45

Happy birthday Opera..Opera 1.0 skin is great

alexdavydova # 28. April 2009, 08:49

Alles Gute zum Geburstag! Happy birthday!

Ronielin # 28. April 2009, 08:51

Happy Opera's birthday. Wishing you more cuccessful and become the best internet browser in the world!

soumitram4u # 28. April 2009, 08:52

Happy Birthday and Best Wishes to ~OPERA~!

53north # 28. April 2009, 08:52

Good Old Telenor.
15yrs ago I could just pick up the occasional analogue channel from them at 1 west, with the old larger Sky dish, from central England.
=o>