Million Download Challenge

[joyrex]

I think the wording of this article title was just so appropriate:

An overly excited Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, today proclaimed at an internal company meeting that if the download numbers of the new Opera 8 Web browser reach 1 million within the first four days of the launch, he will swim from Norway to the USA with only one stop-over for a cup of hot chocolate at his mother's house in his home country, Iceland.

http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/04/21/

 

[El Greco]

Easier said than done. Last summer, a lot of people were going to walk from Portugal back to Greece if we would win the European Championship. Naturally, they didn't walk not even to Spain

 

[Kaylee]

Heh, I think the only way anyone could swim across the Atlantic Ocean is in a pool on a yacht...

I wouldn't mind doing that!

 

[Riddick]

if you're looking at opera press releases, here are a few things you might enjoy reading about:

Chevy Chevette
AMC Gremlin
Ford Pinto
IBM PCjr with the infamous chicklet keyboard

I remember this IBM television campaign very well: