Pretty. :)<p>Gives me PTSD-like flashbacks to the time when I was tasked with installing Windows 95 on 50+ computers on the local school.<p>For the young(er), Windows was on 14-ish 3.5" floppy disks, and I had to do some heavy calculation and logistics copying those discs while installing the OS to make my effort as efficient as possible.<p>IIRC, I managed to keep the installing cyclus going on 28 computers at a time, and finished the whole task during a very long Saturday and Sunday.
These UIs definitely look outdated, but somehow they seem better than current Windows UIs. Not, sure if it's nostalgia or if there's something there.
I think this is the nicest one of these I've seen—seems to actually work in a non-superficial way, from the package manager, shell, system settings, chat app, "p3" ("pseudo peer-to-peer"), system backup (downloads filesystem contents as zip), to running Half-life Uplink or Doom.<p>Seems like if you were a deeply unusual person you could actually do some computing in here :) main thing missing is a browser.
Switched to the win 2k theme and felt an instant rush of nostalgia.<p>Say what you will, I think that the Win9x UI was fantastic and much better than the Windows 10/11 ones.
Nice, but I'd rather have Windows 95 Mobile.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DDQumaaCg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0DDQumaaCg</a>
Nicely done! I'm kinda obsessed with these "Web Desktops" or whatever you wanna call them.<p>I've attempted something similar a few times. Currently working on a year long side project to do something with tons of features that looks like Windows 10.<p>This is a great list of similar projects <a href="https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops</a>.<p>My favorite is probably Windows 93, but this Windows 96 one is in my top 5.
It is great, and yet another Chrome only example.<p>On Firefox,<p><pre><code> indexedDB request error ldb-async.js:25:17
onerror https://windows96.net/system/libraries/kernel/ldb-async.js:25
</code></pre>
EDIT: It works on normal windows, it doesn't on incognito mode.
Now I'm curious what this is: <a href="https://staging.windows96.net/entry/" rel="nofollow">https://staging.windows96.net/entry/</a>
In order to view files and folders on Windows it should be dir isn't it?<p>So why is it showing files when you type ls and not dir, and why dir command is not found?
Man this album gave me the courage to ask my crush out right before I graduated High School. It made me feel calm enough to give her my number. Turns out she felt the same way! Now I have someone I would never imagine love me so much and it feels wonderful. Thank you Windows96 lol. Much love man
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9zZ4Gj75xs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9zZ4Gj75xs</a>
Shouldn't this be playing in the background?
Very nice work.<p>Not sure if it's the intended behavior, but when opening the start menu if "Programs" is clicked, the start menu closes as if an executable option was chosen instead.<p>Same case for the sub directories under this menu.
Windows 96 was actually a thing
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Nashville" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Nashville</a>
The Maximize button works correctly on portrait orientation mobile, even when nothing else is okay with that width. Good game, Maximize button. I concede awesomeness.
For some reason, I can't get this to load past ">> Mounting C:/ system drive..." on a recent-ish Firefox version. AdBlock Ultimate says it blocks one thing, but, even when I disable it, I still can't load the UI.<p>Works like a charm in Safari, although I am annoyed that Safari won't give me an actual full screen experience without fiddling with some setting I've probably never paid any attention to before ("Always Show Toolbar in Full Screen").
Compare this old simple and easy to use Start-menu with the current overloaded version.<p>No scroll, no keyboard input, just klick open, move over to your app in less then 1 second and done.