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Opera adds a splash page to celebrate 15 years of web innovation
Make sure you clear your cookies to catch the splash page
- buugs 17y agoThat's one of the coolest websites I've seen in a while I remember doing something similar in middle school. But it goes away after a cookie.
- nirmal 17y agoI saw a different page and started to wonder if they were doing AB testing :).
- jonah 17y agoI like that the click through is to /?mode=forreals
- Silentio 17y agoI came to post the same thing about middle school. I'm sure they had us working in MS Frontpage. The bad old days, but I was fascinated.
- parenthesis 17y agoI like that the computer depicted in the animated gifs looks like it's from 15 years ago.
- gamache 17y agoI'd wager the .gif is that old. Running strings(1) on it turned up 'NETSCAPE2.0'.
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- Donald 17y agoOut of curiosity, here's Opera's homepage from 10 Jan 1998: http://web.archive.org/web/19980110221024/http://operasoftware.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/19980110221024/http://operasoftwa... (via the Wayback Machine) Edit: Hacker News in Opera 3.0: http://imgur.com/FPYc.png http://imgur.com/FPYc.png
- visitor4rmindia 17y agoOpera is a classy browser. It's fast, efficient, and has a lovely interface. I love it and I really wish it was more popular. Happy Birthday Opera! Here's hoping you get more love this year - you deserve it! http://www.opera.com/portal/15/ http://www.opera.com/portal/15/
- mahmud 17y agoI was use it when I'm away from the laptop charger. All other browsers drain it out in less than an hour. With Opera I can squeeze a good 4 hours out of it. (I also use a lightweight win32 editor called editeur that does syntax highlighting instead of emacs for all my "write first, see it run later" type code.)
- symesc 17y agoAre you using Opera on a PC, Linuxbox or Mac? I've use Opera recently on my Mac and find it nowhere close to Safari or Firefox in terms of elegance and feature set. Gestures won't work via the trackpad and Google Docs won't load. Clunky.
- kvh 17y agoI use it on my mbp. I agree the feature set is inferior, but its the only browser that can handle the 50+ tabs i like to have open at once. ff3 eats up cpu and overheats things.
- gdee 17y agohmm... I usually have 300+ tabs open (6-8 windows, 2-3 processes) with FF3 with no slowdown... (XP/C2D/4G)
- visitor4rmindia 17y agoI use it on a PC. I can't speak for the Mac but it works beautifully on a my WinXP box. Plus I am heavily keyboard driven, and Opera is the only browser I know that can be used without the mouse (at all!). Navigating links is especially cool!
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- tdavis 17y agoSome of the nostalgic things about the "old web" have modern incantations, if you look for them. For instance, the awesome spinning "construction" icons have been replaced by "Beta" tags.
- mahmud 17y agoYep, it says so in Painting The Web, a fine book on graphics design for the left-brained neanderthal :-P