Run Windows 95 In Your Web Browser

[DroidModderX]

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I may be weird but as a 29 year old male I find myself interested in vintage tech. I love hearing the stories of old timers spending days punching out programs on cards for a computing process that took a few minutes. From the stories of the rat race to see who could own the latest and greatest Commadore PC, to the mention of someone owning an Apple II I could listen for hours to these stories.

I have seen some old tech in my day. I remember the first PC we ever had growing up had a 3GB HDD, a high speed 56k modem, CD Rom drive, and a fresh copy of Windows 95! I remember the first time I entered a chat room, or heard the phrase "You've Got Mail". The days of AOL where beyond belief, we were living in the future. Thanks to a 19 year old developer from Scottland named "Andrea Faulds" you can relive the good old days.

His version of Windows 95 works in any web browser. It uses emscripten which is an emulator that converts C++ code to Javascript. You get all the classic games like solitaire and minesweeper along with everything else that came with Windows 95! To try this out just click the link below to launch it!

via Windows 95 Emscripten

 

[kodiak799]

LMAO....Windows 95 in a browser running on javascript - why not just send me a virus to load on my computer?

 

[liftedplane]

it tells you that you may be violating copyright law... I wonder if MS will require him to take it down.

I also use noscript.... so it's not working right kinda a cool idea though.

 

[cr6]

Doesn't make much sense to me but different strokes I guess.

S5 tap'n

 

[pc747]

Like the concept but yeah at this point I would be more impressed if I could use windows 10 or even windows xp, as I was able to use Windows 95 on my iPhone 3gs back in the day. No bashing meant for the op as I understand wanting to load it up for nostalgic purposes.

 

[LoneWolfArcher]

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I may be weird but as a 29 year old male I find myself interested in vintage tech. I love hearing the stories of old timers spending days punching out programs on cards for a computing process that took a few minutes. From the stories of the rat race to see who could own the latest and greatest Commadore PC, to the mention of someone owning an Apple II I could listen for hours to these stories.

I have seen some old tech in my day. I remember the first PC we ever had growing up had a 3GB HDD, a high speed 56k modem, CD Rom drive, and a fresh copy of Windows 95! I remember the first time I entered a chat room, or heard the phrase "You've Got Mail". The days of AOL where beyond belief, we were living in the future. Thanks to a 19 year old developer from Scottland named "Andrea Faulds" you can relive the good old days.

His version of Windows 95 works in any web browser. It uses emscripten which is an emulator that converts C++ code to Javascript. You get all the classic games like solitaire and minesweeper along with everything else that came with Windows 95! To try this out just click the link below to launch it!

via Windows 95 Emscripten

3GB Windows 95 machine?!?! You must be rich.

 

[LoneWolfArcher]

it tells you that you may be violating copyright law... I wonder if MS will require him to take it down.

I also use noscript.... so it's not working right kinda a cool idea though.

If MS is worried about this then they have bigger problems!

 

[liftedplane]

3GB Windows 95 machine?!?! You must be rich.

Rofl... My first pc was an IBM aptiva with 32mb of ram and a 1.2gb hdd running an amd k6 233mhz, a friend gave be his old voodoo 3 and I ran that thing until almost 2003...

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[Mustang02]

Look at all you rich folk. My first PC was a Tandy 1000RL with it's 30Mb HDD and 512Kb of RAM.