Opera began when Mosaic still could not print

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Opera founder Jon von Tetzchner describes building a browser inside Norway’s telecommunications research organization in the early 1990s and negotiating to take the software out as a company. The memorable turning point comes after waiting months for Mosaic to add printing and copying, only to receive an update that still said the commands were not implemented.

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