Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)
21 points by thushanfernando 2 hours ago | 15 comments
  • la_oveja 42 minutes ago |
    is there anything else to it than the cassette 3d thing?
    • freehorse 37 minutes ago |
      You have to keep the spacebar pressed
      • cubefox 31 minutes ago |
        So it doesn't work on phones apparently.
        • freehorse 23 minutes ago |
          There is a "hold to rewind" button on the bottom in mine (ios).
    • lproven 26 minutes 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 21 minutes ago |
        I use firefox and it works for me
    • rpastuszak 6 minutes ago |
      Check your ad blockers. I needed to switch off the one blocking the gdpr consent banner
  • freehorse 35 minutes 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 33 minutes 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 20 minutes 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 16 minutes ago |
      Vivaldi is it's rightful heir

      https://vivaldi.com/

      • eitau_1 9 minutes ago |
        Then Otter Browser is a bastard faithful to the tradition

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

        • freehorse 4 minutes 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 11 minutes 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 4 minutes ago |
    That sure took a lot of work for something that nobody's gonna watch.