Opera & Trolltech honoured with historic blue sign in Oslo

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This is one for the old Opera fans, I know there's many of you here

Last week the building where Opera and Trolltech had their formative years was honoured with a blue sign from Oslo Byes Vel to signify the historic importance of the work that went on during those years. This is quite a big honour as they are usually reserved for big tourist attractions and houses where famous historic people lived.

Article on Digi.no
(English translation)

I like the story of how they one day discovered someone growing certain "well-known plants" in the basement next to the servers. Back then this was a pretty seedy part of town

The sign reads:
Here, the browser Opera and the Qt tool were developed in the years 1998-2012. The display engines "Presto" and "Webkit" made the internet possible on mobile phones

I wonder if this also means the old industrial building will now also be protected from demolition because of its historic status. It's not a very pretty building:

This is also just a couple of hundred meters from where Vivaldi is based in Oslo today

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Certainly worth to mention where a good idea started.