Web design has come a long way since those halcyon days of Web 1.0. There are plenty of rules about how to make a clean and efficient website, but sometimes it’s more fun to throw them out and just be creative instead. In that vein, [Simone] has curated a wonderful collection of websites that emulate the computer desktop experience online.
The collection’s website very much fits this theme. Upon visiting, an Award BIOS screen flashes up. From there, we get a Windows 95-like interface full of links to other sites that emulate a computer desktop layout. There’s even a 3D screensaver that pops up if you mouse away for too long.
There’s Browso.app, which semi-accurately tells you information about your computer in a theme reminiscent of MacOS 9. Meanwhile, clicking on “It Is As if You Were Doing Work” will take you to a weird game that’s compelling in its replication of office banality. Nightwave Plaza offers exquisite vaporwave vibes, while others simply intend to faithfully recreate various OSes in a browser window.
It’s a fun collection of websites that go from the weirdly afamiliar to downright impressive recreations of former realities. It’s certainly fun to click around for a while and see what’s out there. We do love some good web ephemera around these parts!
https://www.atari.st/
Submit it, there’s a “contribute” link on their website.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180103132518/http://www.win3game.com/
Great to see Desktop Environments in the Browser getting attention! I’ve been working on mine for nearly 2 years now. Here is the source code for anyone interested.
https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
WINE in my web browser is pretty sick
The site is about as responsive as some of the computers it tries to emulate. :-(
Oh this is going to be so fun to explore! Great timing, as earlier today, I watched a YouTube video where 19 people colaborated on a PowerPoint OS, featuring draggable windows!
One I made as Santa’s Desktop.
http://jeremymakes.com/SantaOS/
Fantastic project, super fun to play with!
https://keyge.nz/ is my site being developed to eventually look like a virus ridden Win98 pc!!
a while ago there were a bunch of people making ways to generate W95/NT keys, I made one to look like W95 online(offline) http://retro.network/win95/keygen
https://dahliaos.io
https://refuge.tokyo/index.html
https://refuge.tokyo/windows/windows.html
https://systems01.com
I think SantaOS is really cool