Opera is a web browser developed by the Norwegian company Opera Software. It started in 1994 as a research project at the telephone company Telenor, and two of its creators, Jon von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsoy, founded Opera Software the following year to develop it. The browser introduced or popularised several features that later became standard, such as tabbed browsing, speed dial and pop-up blocking. For many years it used its own engine, and in 2013 it moved to the Chromium-based engine also used by Google Chrome. Opera was strong on mobile phones with Opera Mini, which compressed web pages, and the company was sold to a consortium of Chinese investors in 2016.
Before and after
- 1994Founding of European Committee of the Regions
- 1994Completion of the Oriental Pearl Tower
- 1994Rise of Houthis
- January 1994Release of Yahoo
- 1994Release of Opera
- 1994Founding of Eurasian Economic Union
- 1994Rise of Taliban
- 1994Launch of AllMovie
- 1994Founding of Partnership for Peace
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 1971Email
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
This moment belongs to the Contemporary world (1945 CE to today), the world since 1945. You can also browse everything in the 20th century.