A Mini Browser for the Masses.

When a user pulled up their browser and requested a URL, instead of making a normal request, it bounced it through a proxy server owned and operated by Opera. That proxy server would then access the requested URL, render it out completely, and then send back an interactive image of the webpage down to the browser which processed the image in a Java environment and showed it to the user.

Relevant: brow.sh is a purely text-based browser that can run in most TTY terminal environments and in any browser.