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I Just Explored 30 Years of the Internet with Opera Web Rewind — and It Reminded Me What Browsing Felt Like Before AI Slop

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In honor of the Opera browser turning thirty, the company has set up an internet time machine named “Opera Web Rewind,” and it truly got me right in my feelings for a good long while.

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Opera celebrates its thirty years, and on this occasion, the company launches Web Rewind, an interactive archive that traces three decades of web history.

Opera announced that its iconic browser has been on the market for thirty years. To mark the occasion, a digital archive has been created, featuring the most iconic moments in internet history. It's an invitation to revisit the web's evolution. A unique contest has also been organized, giving you the chance to win a trip to Switzerland, home to CERN. Opera is celebrating its 30th anniversary – feel a whiff of nostalgia and travel to Switzerland.…

Opera celebrates its thirtieth anniversary by offering a real digital time machine: the "Web Rewind" project offers an interactive and nostalgic dive into the history of the Internet.

The Web Rewind created by Opera to celebrate its 30th anniversary is an authentic rewind of the Web to 1996, the year in which the alternative browser was created to those who dominated at that time: Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. The web is curious as the time remember, and it is only necessary to keep the space bar pressed to jump to chance so it was fashionable in the last three decades: from compilations of memes to modems connect…

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Tom's Guide broke the news in on Tuesday, February 17, 2026.
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