If ever you’ve desired a blast from the past, here’s your moment: you can now run Windows 95 in browser use in Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge.
Prepare to feel old: August this year will see the 21st anniversary of the launch of Windows 95 – an operating system heralded as one that changed the landscape of desktop computing forever. Now, to celebrate the occasion, you’ll be able to run Windows 95 in browser use, directly from a web browser such as Chrome or Firefox.
19 year old web developer named Andrea Faulds has developed a means to run the operating system within a browser, using conversion of C/C++ code into JavaScript and through use of a DOS emulator.
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Users who are interested in running Windows 95 in browser mode won’t need to install any additional software beyond downloading the disk image of Windows 95.
While the operating system is slightly slow when run through a browser window, Faulds’ work is an impressive reminder of how far web technology has developed in the space of 21 years.
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