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Life with a computer used to be so much simpler – there was only one method of mainstream communication (email) and Minesweeper and Solitaire were all you needed to cure boredom.
This was the age of Windows 95, where getting creative meant using the brush AND the spray can on Paint, and your reminders were in a Notepad file.
If you miss those simple times there is wonderful news – someone has made a Windows 95 emulator that runs in modern web browsers.
Piecing it together involved some impressive coding, but it’s now possible to run a near fully-fledged version of Windows 95 in your browser.
And yes, that does mean you can use the classic version of Paint once again.
Sadly Internet Explorer didn’t work for us, but you can still get a pretty healthy dose of nostalgia from the rest of the emulator, mainly Minesweeper.
It’s also impressive to see how right Microsoft got it in terms of interface and user experience back in the early 1990s, and just how much of it still influences computer use today. Bringing back the Start button in Windows 10 was definitely the right thing to do on Microsoft’s part.
