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

https://www.web-rewind.com
21•thushanfernando•1h ago

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la_oveja•43m ago
is there anything else to it than the cassette 3d thing?
freehorse•38m ago
You have to keep the spacebar pressed
cubefox•32m ago
So it doesn't work on phones apparently.
freehorse•24m ago
There is a "hold to rewind" button on the bottom in mine (ios).
lproven•27m ago
That's all I see too: an ugly rendered cassette thing I can spin.

It would be very fitting if it didn't work on Firefox: a sign of the growing enshittification of the Web.

freehorse•21m ago
I use firefox and it works for me
rpastuszak•7m ago
Check your ad blockers. I needed to switch off the one blocking the gdpr consent banner
freehorse•36m ago
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

netsharc•34m ago
Feels as soulless as the Opera that's been bought by a Chinese company to sell predatory lending: https://qz.com/africa/1788351/operas-okash-opesas-predatory-...
irusensei•21m ago
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.
thunderbong•16m ago
Vivaldi is it's rightful heir

https://vivaldi.com/

eitau_1•10m ago
Then Otter Browser is a bastard faithful to the tradition

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

freehorse•4m ago
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.
freehorse•12m ago
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).

Flavius•5m ago
That sure took a lot of work for something that nobody's gonna watch.

I built a 30-second dinner decider because weeknight decision fatigue is real

https://orla-app-swart.vercel.app/
2•HoneyBarny•2m ago•0 comments

ISS: Instant Space Switcher for macOS

https://github.com/joshuarli/iss
2•fanf2•8m ago•0 comments

Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/neal_stephenson_death_of_metaverse/
1•jjgreen•10m ago•0 comments

Arm to host 'Arm Everywhere' event and webcast

https://newsroom.arm.com/news/arm-everywhere-event
2•makerofthings•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Using the Web Audio API to simulate various tuning forks

https://github.com/evoluteur/healing-frequencies
1•evoluteur•13m ago•0 comments

Local Bernstein theory, and lower bounds for Lebesgue constants

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/local-bernstein-theory-and-lower-bounds-for-lebesgue-co...
1•jjgreen•13m ago•0 comments

Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating

https://www.sambent.com/microsofts-plan-to-fix-windows-11-is-gaslighting/
3•h0ek•14m ago•0 comments

Users Quit ChatGPT for Claude in 1,487% Surge

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelwells/2026/03/23/users-quit-chatgpt-for-claude-in-1487-surge-h...
3•doener•14m ago•0 comments

Comb Shaped Slices: Why I'm not picking a vertical

https://paolino.me/comb-shaped-slices/
2•earcar•17m ago•0 comments

Review AI agent changes locally before you push

https://github.com/gdaybrice/linemark
1•gdaybrice•17m ago•0 comments

Following 94M Relationships Down the Rabbit Hole on Your Local PC

https://graphscope.io/blog/tech/2026/03/24/Following-94-Million-Relationships
4•robeenly•18m ago•1 comments

These Beeps Started in 1924

https://twitter.com/robertgraham/status/2036208633814639088
1•tosh•18m ago•0 comments

UK's Trustpilot fined $4.6M by Italian regulator for misleading consumers

https://www.reuters.com/business/italy-fines-trustpilot-46-million-misleading-consumers-2026-03-23/
1•giuliomagnifico•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built DoodleDuel, a free browser drawing game with an AI judge

https://doodleduel.co/?a=9000
1•yagelar•22m ago•2 comments

Sand Under a Microscope – Magnified Sand Photos

https://magnifiedsand.com/
3•thunderbong•24m ago•0 comments

We almost bought an automation platform. Cowork was one

https://barazany.dev/blog/we-already-had-the-automation-platform
2•barazany•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?

1•udl•27m ago•0 comments

Rapprochement between Hyperion and Amiga; OS 3.2 available again

https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-03-00108-EN.html
1•doener•30m ago•1 comments

OpenAI Parameter Golf Challenge

https://openai.com/index/parameter-golf/
3•mellosouls•32m ago•0 comments

I built a free web tool to generate Kubernetes YAML for Podman play kube

https://podman-generator.rzen.at/
2•Garfieldttt•40m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Depending on AI for anything important is a horrible idea, agree?

2•roschdal•41m ago•0 comments

Porting Doom to ESP32-P4 Using Doom Generic

https://github.com/alexkid77/ESP32P4DOOM
1•alexkid777•43m ago•1 comments

Show HN: VeilVault – an Android password manager built to stay local

https://veilvault.codeveil.de/index.en.html
1•codeveil•44m ago•1 comments

Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack iPhones

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/someone-has-publicly-leaked-an-exploit-kit-that-can-hack-millio...
1•simonebrunozzi•46m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built the modern, clean and AI native linktree app

https://linkroot.space
1•IsruAlpha2•47m ago•1 comments

Russian Authorities Block Archive.today

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/russian-authorities-block-paywall-removal-site-archive-today/
1•treebrained•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Overlay map tiles onto Autodesk's 3D BIM Viewer

https://github.com/infra-plan/bim-tile-overlay
2•gubets•50m ago•0 comments

Have You Paid Your "Intuit Tax"?

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tax-season-income-wealth-data/
1•petethomas•55m ago•0 comments

The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US

https://www.theverge.com/news/899172/fcc-foreign-router-ban
4•bennett_dev•57m ago•0 comments

An end-to-end AI drug discovery platform – accessible to anyone

https://orac-nt-core.onrender.com/
3•DREDREG•58m ago•0 comments