How Opera is the best talk show ever.

If this was the year 2002, you would probably be viewing this page in Internet Explorer and it wouldn't look this pretty either. Well, you could have been one of the three people still hanging on to Navigator Gold hoping for a Netscape revival. Microsoft pretty much dominated the world and forced Internet Explorer on us. Once they were done feeding us the Microsoft song and dance, they stopped all development on IE by freezing it in an ice block preventing website developers from taking advantage of all the new HTML code and standards that were coming down the pipes. So I'm basically saying that we were stuck in an ice age. MS no longer updated IE and we suffered. Lack of standard support and security holes are no one's friend. So God gave us things like Mozilla's Firefox and all was well in the world. Now, keep in mind. I'm not going to touch the Mac side of the fence. With only 5% of the market share, a browser developed only for the Mac can't really dominate my face and remove IE from the top. Anyways, Firefox came out with a bang. It received a lot of downloads along with the attention, and word was flying that the next browser war had started. Thank God. Firefox has better standard support, looks sharp, functioned real nice like, less security concerns, and tabbed browsing. Because Firefox was so swell and not square like IE, Microsoft reformed their IE team to work on a new browser to compete with Mozilla's offering. However there was a third browser out there named Opera. Now Opera was from a different breed. Oh, it was better than IE and on par with Firefox, but its business model called on the old days. The days before the first browser war. If you wanted to use Opera without the built in ads, you had to pay for it. That's why I called Opera the, "Rich kid's browser." I'm sure people bought it. Actually, I'm positive a lot people bought it. I'm pretty sure those kids that were suckers felt they were a part of some special group that's better than everyone else. Just like the kids who buy iMacs. But during the first browser war, I vowed never to pay for another browser again, so I never bought Opera even though it was a great browser. I also told myself that if Opera wanted to stand a chance against IE and Firefox, they have to adopt the free model. Which they did, and they received over one million downloads in two days because of the switch. Now we're entering another browser war.