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Happy 15th birthday Opera Desktop

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:00:00 AM

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...

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RafałRdswdn Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:01:06 AM

Best wishes Opera!

Андрей Пановandrew3105 Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:01:58 AM

Happy birthday! smile

Dan Alexandrudantesoft Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:04:50 AM

Happy Birthday party

Daniel Davistagawa Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:12:17 AM

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.

Ryan Octavianusphilry4n Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:13:42 AM

Happy Birthday!!!!!!!! party beer

UZAIRUzair_007 Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:15:18 AM

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

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:16:41 AM

Happy birthday! i hope the staff gets thoroughly inebriated smile

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.

Konstantinmaybkot Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:19:17 AM

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

z@h3kZAHEK Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:30:44 AM

Best wishes...

Admin Soppeng Pos OnlineQflee Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:31:29 AM

Happy Birthday:)
Selamat Ulang Tahun.

Iain MacLeanimac Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:36:53 AM

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' yes

Olegmelnichuck Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:39:02 AM

Rock Opera! headbang

Rosetta2002 Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:46:49 AM

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! smile yes Thank you again for making and sharing the best browser in the world. o Rock on, Opera! Happy 15th birthday to you~ wizard

Ralf Demuthlachralle Tuesday, April 28, 2009 7:48:43 AM

Great news, keep on setting the standards! wizard

KristianKristianP Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:07:39 AM

Happy Birthday!!! smile

Kristinpiazava Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:14:43 AM

Hurra hurra hurraaah! party

MartinSnapphane Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:26:59 AM

Happy birthday kid bigsmile

quarkdrunkensurgeon Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:29:19 AM

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

Gratulerer med dagen...

Phạm Lâmphamlam Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:29:22 AM

Hura birthday yes

Kq79 Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:31:52 AM

Happy birthday !!!cheers

Galileo Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:45:45 AM

lol party Happy birthday Opera..Opera 1.0 skin is great bigsmile

Alexandraalexdavydova Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:49:04 AM

Alles Gute zum Geburstag! Happy birthday!

Linh NguyenRonielin Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:51:52 AM

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

Soumitrasoumitram4u Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:52:30 AM

Happy Birthday and Best Wishes to ~OPERA~! partyup

53north Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:52:56 AM

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>

Andrea A. Biancoandreabianco Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:04:47 AM

happy birthday guys, you are great smile

mistressEVILmissevilat Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:10:43 AM

Happy birthday!! party

merlin!pintavodki Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:12:40 AM

Congrats. party The old skin rules. yes

Czarekczara Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:21:20 AM

Happy Birthday Opera! Wszystkiego dobrego Opera!

konzertjunkie Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:29:32 AM

Herzlichen Glückwunsch and gratulerer med dagen! smile

Matt Coxcoxy Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:36:07 AM

Excellent! Love the opera.com front-page too.
I hit the Digg This link on this page.

Olihen Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:37:13 AM

Happy Birthday Opera!party drunk

Joonas Lehtolahtigodjonez Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:42:37 AM

Awesome comic!

Happy birthday Opera, the web browser that has always been the best!

АрсенийTheTrashMan Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:08:53 AM

Happy Birthday Opera!!!party party drunk
ps At me too today birthday smile

José Antóniozetoh_mesquita Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:16:09 AM

You don't have to be the most used/popular to be the best. Quality is more important than quantity. Happy birthday!!!

Yeni Setiawansandalian Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:27:40 AM

Happy Birthday Opera Desktop! up yes cheers

Leonp.vmynoel Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:30:53 AM

Congratulations opera browser happy 15th anniversary!! Opera is simply the best of everything.

Prasoon Agarwalprasoon271 Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:34:42 AM

yes wine jester headbang idea

Zotlan Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:52:31 AM

Gefeliciteerd then,
Happy birthday.

Maciej DudaMadDud Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:04:37 AM

Happy Birthday Opera!
Guys, thank you for your hard work! You are awesome!

MadGhigno Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:40:00 AM

Happy birthday Opera !!!
The best browser on earth

Nevarnevar Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:40:21 AM

My best wishes for Opera!

Merijn Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:48:23 AM

Congratulations Opera on continously putting out a great webbrowser. I've been using it since v3.60 and it's been good to me ever since. up

jester

Serdarteknomobil Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:59:07 AM

Happy birthday Opera jester wizard
Fortunately there are opera up

Pfeleleppfelelep Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:04:52 PM

happy birthday, "pleine de touyous " as we say in french bigsmile

Arpit M Jauharihiiamj Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:28:38 PM

Best wishes to opera
and I feel proud to be part of opera.

scaRFhogg Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:30:40 PM

Happy birthday Opera! sing Thanks for providing me with the best browser for the past 8 years (first version I used was 5.12 IIRC). All the best for the next 15+ years.jester drunk

Ahmed النجم احمد صابر Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:40:35 PM

Happy Birthday

Philippkillerrabbit Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:50:55 PM

Happy Birthday Opera! up

Marcomyeagle Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:52:14 PM

up Happy Birthday Opera party heart heart party

Best wishes to you! cheers

Best wishes to all of us! cheers cheers

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