Håkon Wium Lie, the CTO of Opera Software, was the first Norwegian to receive a prototype of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computer.
I got the chance to try it out back in December 2006, and wrote a story about it at digi.no. We also did a video presentation of the OLPC-computer.
The little computer was quite impressive, and Wium Lie got a lot of attention when he showed it to both adults and children. There was plenty of people who wanted one for themselves, or for their children.
Last Wednesday, a hundred Norwegians got their wish fulfilled, when a truck filled with 100 OLPC-computers stopped outside the home of Wium Lie. They had ordered the computer under the “buy two, get one”-program.
I was invited to the party to see the happy owners create a small OLPC village in Oslo.
It was a fun event, and probably one of very few parties where none of the participants cared about the free booze. They preferred to sit down with their precious new computer.
Håkon Wium Lie as a manager for his private PC-business
One laptop per child? Freecode bought one for each employee.
Two “kids” on the floor with their OLPC-computers.
Apple-fans go home! The truly happy fans owns an OLPC.
See my Norwegian story at digi.no for more pictures. The text is in Norwegian, but you kind of get the story without reading it.