Opera Habragost: Past, Present and Future Opera

Time is rapidly flying towards the new 2011, not everything in the “Opera Habrast” heading turned out as planned, but there is one interview that I would definitely like to conduct back in the current 2010 year. I’m talking about the next guest on our schedule - one of the co-founders of the company, its permanent leader from the very first day of formation, Jone von Techner. And I didn’t make a reservation - Jon still plays a key role in the development of Opera, despite the change of official position at the beginning of this year. I think it will be right to say that only the name of the position in the staff list has changed - the whole burden of worries on the development of both the browser and the entire company as a whole has remained the same for him. In general, the story of the appearance of the Opera browser is described in sufficient detail on the network, but it will be more interesting for you to find out what kind of person

Although Opera Software is a Norwegian company, Jon himself is an Icelander by birth and by citizenship. His father was a Norwegian, and the future creator of the Opera browser also received his higher education in Norway (Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo). His childhood passed in Reykjavik, with his grandfather and grandmother, who, incidentally, was a composer and artist (and her father, in turn, was also a very famous songwriter in Iceland). As a child, Jon rather thoroughly played hockey, but after several injuries he decided not to get too involved in professional sports. It should be noted that he made the choice in favor of information technology on time: the time of his studies at the university coincided with the birth of the worldwide network in the form in which we all know it now. Jon was a member of all the landmark conferences that started the Internet.

Jon is a very passionate person, and his passion remains unchanged - the Internet and everything connected with it. He can talk on this topic for hours, and after each conversation, the impression is that John mentally lives on another Internet, which will come only after five or ten years. And that explains a lot with regard to the Opera browser itself, which is constantly bringing innovative ideas to the market. Another hobby of Jon is collecting old computers. Incidentally, one of his favorite exhibits is two ZX Spectrum, donated a few years ago by Russian user Opera Fedor Alexandrov (one is a factory computer, and the second is a makeshift “designer”).

In general, you can talk about this really unique person for a long time, but today the topic is slightly different. By tradition, questions can be asked in the comments on this article during the week, the topic of questions is unlimited. But I beg you - there is no need to ask questions about why something is not working and when it will be fixed. Firstly, Jon does not know the answers to such questions, because personally, it doesn’t correct bugs (although there are almost 1,500 reports in BTS; a small part, by the way, is still not fixed;)), and secondly, there are a lot of much more interesting things that you can find out from a person who wants to squeeze out Internet 120% of its capabilities and a little more.