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Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)

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Re: Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)

#11

I remember trying Opera for the first time in Windows 98 SE. It was one of those versions that prided itself for fitting on a floppy. I think it was 3.0.6 or 3.6. But anyway I was taken by surprise how good it was in comparison to Internet Explorer which at the time was the only browser I ever used.

Vivaldi is it's rightful heir

https://vivaldi.com/

Re: Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)

#12

I remember trying Opera for the first time in Windows 98 SE. It was one of those versions that prided itself for fitting on a floppy. I think it was 3.0.6 or 3.6. But anyway I was taken by surprise how good it was in comparison to Internet Explorer which at the time was the only browser I ever used.

Everything else after opera dropped Presto and became a chrome clone felt like a downgrade to me. I never got the same feeling of easy of use and control over a browser. I kept using the 12.16 for as much as I could, then switched to firefox. The new "opera browser" now is a different browser just sharing the same name.

And the beloved opera mini for the mobile was amazing. Back then I would even use it in a vm on my computer sometimes because I had shitty internet (and to use a proxy).

Re: Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)

#13

I remember trying Opera for the first time in Windows 98 SE. It was one of those versions that prided itself for fitting on a floppy. I think it was 3.0.6 or 3.6. But anyway I was taken by surprise how good it was in comparison to Internet Explorer which at the time was the only browser I ever used.

Vivaldi is it's rightful heir https://vivaldi.com/

Then Otter Browser is a bastard faithful to the tradition

https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser

Re: Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vivaldi is it's rightful heir https://vivaldi.com/

Then Otter Browser is a bastard faithful to the tradition https://github.com/OtterBrowser/otter-browser

Looks interesting. Is there a way to use it without compiling it myself? It seems to be somewhat maintained in github but the compiled binaries in github releases or sourceforge have not been updated since 2022.

Re: Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)

#20

In general https://www.web-rewind.com/xywz takes you to year xywz (if exists) but 1999 for some reason takes you to an overview of all years. edit: https://www.web-rewind.com/1999 would take you to an overview of all years but now it takes you to year 1999

I think that overview appears on every year after x visited artifacts. For me, it appeared in 2002.
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