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Enter Opera Mini. Unlike other browsers (like the original mobile Safari or Pocket IE), Opera Mini did not load web pages directly. It employed a clever architecture known as proxy rendering .

Opening a standard website on a phone in 2009 was an act of masochism. A heavy page with JavaScript, high-res images, and CSS could take 60 seconds to load, eat 2MB of your monthly 50MB plan, and often crash the phone’s limited browser. operamini facebook

And Facebook was the destination that made the journey worthwhile. Enter Opera Mini

Between 2009 and 2016, if you lived in emerging markets like India, Brazil, Indonesia, or Nigeria, you didn't "browse" the web. You surfed it carefully, counting every kilobyte like a miser counts coins. In that harsh digital desert, two oases emerged: the lightweight Opera Mini browser and the social gravity of Facebook. Opening a standard website on a phone in