Opera’s code was small enough to fit into Nokia’s Communicator and Ericsson’s P800. Oslo is in Scandinavia, and in the neighboring countries, Nokia and Ericsson started the development of mobile devices in which a browser was a key component. Opera’s main product then was a browser that fit on a floppy disk – it was much smaller and faster than competing browsers from Netscape and Microsoft. Together, Presto and WebKit made the internet possible on mobile devices. This engine was later renamed by Apple to WebKit. It’s also the site where the neighboring company, TrollTech, developed the groundbreaking Qt tool, with one of its employees spearheading the KHTML engine. Opera developed Presto there, which enabled Opera to put browsers into mobile phones, TVs and kitchen sinks. In the history of the web, Geneva is the birthplace, Urbana–Champaign is the kindergarten, and Oslo is the racetrack where two ultra-fast competing rendering engines were developed. Waldemar Thranes gate 98 was home to not just one, but two of the rendering engines that power our browsers. Håkon Wium Lie in front of the first Opera HQ, now a historical site Why is this building in Oslo so important for the web?
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