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

https://www.web-rewind.com

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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.

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