The Opera 3 series saw Opera evolve from a geek's tool to a powerful browsing machine with a climax in features, stability and speed with version 3.62. It will only load local pages but you can already see a lot of key features that have made Opera famous! This is serious test-driving fun! Series 3 The oldest version found is a Norwegian demo version of Opera 2.0 which was included with a PC Magazine. They are of course extremely outdated but test-driving them you can witness the birth of the legend that is called Opera. The first public versions of Opera was the 2-series. In serverlogs across the web evidence of a Multitorg Opera 1.0b4 can be found. It's fun to recognise the features that are still present in Opera's current form. Though not publicly released there are screenshots of the then-called MultiTorg Opera.

Opera Software now provides their own Feature History page, which is much more detailed (and up-to-date) than this page. This page tries to give a short overview of Opera's history, from the early beginnings up to the most recent state of the art releases. He used the following introduction, which after many years of development still capture the core qualities of Opera! Are you looking for an alternative to Netscape and Microsoft Explorer? Do you like the idea of having an MDI user interface and being able to browse in multiple windows? Care for a full keyboard interface for your browsing? Want to start up with multiple windows? Is your browser slow? Try Opera at. Opera's co-founder Jon von Tetzchner made the first public announcement of Opera on usenet on July 14th 1996. The first public release of the Opera Browser was version 2.12 although earlier demo versions have been found and screenshots of the 1.0 version are available on the web.

Independent development was continued by Opera Software ASA in 1995. The Opera browser started out in 1994 as a research project in Norway's telecom company, Telenor. Opera browser version history Opera browser version history Introduction

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