Opera mini biography of esoponline

Hooray! Today, we are turning 20 years old. 🙂

The web looked very different in 1995, and Opera did, too. Did you know that the first Opera browser was originally called MultiTorg Opera?

Opera mini biography of esoponline

It was available on floppy disk, and you had to pay for it after an initial, free trial period.

It all started in Norway in the minds of two computer engineers, Jon and Geir. They started to develop browsing software as a project for Telenor.

Before long, they founded their own company, Opera Software, and continued working on the browser, which would soon be called Opera.

The cross-platform vision

From the beginning, Opera’s vision was to bring the best internet experience to any device, regardless of network conditions or location.

With that in mind, the Opera Mini browser was born in 2005 and quickly became one of the world’s most popular mobile browsers, as it enabled users of even the most basic mobile phones to access the web.

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