Opera’s interactive experience guides users through the key milestones that have helped shape the web over the past three decades, from the dial-up days to the era of artificial intelligence-assisted browsing.
“A Time Machine for the Internet’s Best and Weirdest Moments”
If you’re reading this on your iPhone, you might want to switch to your computer. Opera’s Web Rewind is a fun new website that feels like a throwback to the Flash era, full of animations and keyboard-driven interactivity.
You interact with the site by holding or tapping the spacebar, depending on which of its 31 artifacts you’re exploring. These include dial-up (complete with modem handshake tones), the early days of email with AOL’s “you’ve got mail” and chain emails, the birth of Google, peer-to-peer file sharing, MySpace, and more.
Plus, Opera is running a contest where you submit your favorite memory from the past 30 years of the web and maybe get you a trip to Switzerland to visit CERN, or “the birthplace of the web,” as Opera calls it.
All in all, Opera’s Web Rewind is a nostalgic experiment in itself, as it evokes a version of the web rarely seen anymore. Whether you’ve lived through all, most, or just a few of the last 30 years, you’ll probably have fun.
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