Opera co-founders in the early days (photo)
Published January 2nd, 2008 2:59 PM EST By Daniel GoldmanHere’s a photo from back in 1995 when Jon von Tetzchner (currently serving as Opera’s CEO) and Geir Ivarsøy were programming the very first version of the Opera desktop browser.
12 years later Opera has grown to a company of more than 400 employees with its browser being used on millions of computers and many more million mobile phones and devices.
I hope you enjoy this photo. :)
(The Opera co-founders: Jon von Tetzchner, left, with Geir Ivarsøy)
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Very cool! Too bad they didn’t have color photography yet back in 1995.
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Great, it reminds me of someone that like apples…
And congrats to Jon.
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Opera has lost its luster for me after it filed its case against Microsoft.
I always rooted for Opera. Now I use Firefox.
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Jackson, there’s no need to start that discussion here.
Daniel, nice picture. Thanks for sharing.
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Wow… 400 employees? Isn’t that a lot more than MoCo? I would have thought it were the other way round…
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Black and white, really?
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I’m not sure whether the photo was taken in B&W. Either way, I think it adds a nice touch to it.
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Do you really want to say that Jon was wearing a tie while coding?
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I dont’ believe that soe programators work with suite and tie. Was it really the reality?
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I did not see andol’s post before submitting
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A tie? Hehe…
He dressed up; he know I’ll be posting this picture on Opera Watch 12 years down the road.
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David Naylor, assuming that you were referring to Mozilla, they have only been around for a fraction of the time that Opera Software has. 12 years is a long time, and with offices is as many countries as they have, you tend to pick up a large amount of employees after a while.
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I s’pose so.
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Nice stuff
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Posted by “Jackson”, using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP:
But you still use Windows after Microsoft filed an antitrust complaint against Google last month? Interesting
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GT500,
I was not starting a discussion, you did however.
X3,
I never said I used Windows.
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LOL there weren’t color photography in Norway in the 90s?
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describe Licenses of photos on your blog plizzz
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Jackson said:
Sure, sure. Of course you carefully spoofed your useragent just for this blog, because it would have blocked you otherwise!
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serdelll, you’re free to copy this photo. I ask, though, that you provide a link back.
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X3,
You are wrong, **** Tracy. I do not use Windows.
And I did not spoof my user agent.
My posts were made on my corporation’s system which does use Windows.
I cannot prevent that but I did persuade them not to upgrade to Vista.
My systems are Linux and Mac. I built the Linux myself to avoid Windows.
I would not have abandoned Windows had I used it because of their complaint against Google however as your post equates with Opera’s complaint which it is not.
I happen to agree with Microsoft there. Their complaint is substantive unlike Opera’s against Microsoft which is frivolous. The merging of Double Clicks data base with Google’s raises great privacy concerns and should be prevented.
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That was D I C K Tracy of course, the famous detective.
I would not want to be falsely accused of bad language too because of a blog filter.
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Except Microsoft’s argument is that the merger would give Google too much market power.
Funny how people justify their own double standards, isn’t it?
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The merger would give Google too much marketing power.
I am opposed to it without Microsoft’s complaint. Everyone should be.
No double standard here.
And herein lies your last unjustified insult.
I am deleting this feed.
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d0rks rule!
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Jackson: What is the difference? Didn’t bundle the browser with the OS give MS the power to ignore standards etc?
*sniff sniff* Smells like double standards..
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Nice double standards there, Jackson!
Fact: Microsoft filed an antitrust complaint, just like Opera. Amusingly, this antitrust complaint is likely to be thrown out in the EU as well. It was already thrown out in the US.
Opera’s complaint is more likely to go through since there is precedent for this kind of thing.
You stopped using Opera because they filed an antitrust complaint in the EU which might just go through, but you will continue to use Windows despite Microsoft’s double antitrust complaint both in the US and EU?
Again, nice double standards!
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Daniel, license for the photo is actually something important. There’s no photo of Geir in Wikipedia yet, a high resolution free as in speech version of this one would be really aprecciated.