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I’ll swim across Atlantic if Opera is downloaded million times

Swim across the Atlantic if Opera gets 1 million downloads

In 2005, Opera CEO, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, announced that he would swim across the Atlantic from Norway to the US if the version 8 of web browser received a million downloads in 4 days. The number was reached in just 2 days and Tetzchner went ahead with the challenge, though in vain.

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