We seldom think about the fact that Opera has been around for quite a few years, and by the standards of the IT industry it can be attributed to long-livers in general - it’s a joke, for more than 12 years it has been growing, evolving and getting better and more functional. Meanwhile, its creators are growing along with it, and for them the twelve-year period is also quite noticeable. We have already become accustomed to modern photos of Jon von Tachner, but today there is an opportunity to look a little at the history and look at the faces of the creators of Opera, when they were just preparing to release the first version. The photograph shows Jon von Tachner (left) and Geir Ivarsa (right) at work on the creation of Opera.