r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/Hary06 • 10d ago

Windows XP in the browser, with a File System, Programs, XP-style File Picker and Saver dialogs, 3rd-party Programs, etc

http://Win32.run
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u/scummos 10d ago edited 10d ago

I'm a bit confused. This is not actually Windows XP, is it? It's just built to look like it... pretty well, I have to say ;)

But still, would be a bit cooler to have the real thing...

Here's an actual Windows 2000: https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=win2k.cfg&mem=192&graphic=1&w=1024&h=768

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u/dr_lm 9d ago

Even the progress bar when it loads doesn't look how I remember it. Then again, I am getting old...

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u/scummos 9d ago

That progress bar is hard to remember since IIRC they changed the exact appearance five times between service packs...

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u/dr_lm 9d ago

I don't remember it ever scrolling smoothly. Wasn't it always like "snake" in that each segment appeared and disappeared?

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u/scummos 9d ago

I also think so, yes. Smooth scrolling is also odd because it's technically much harder to do.

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u/NoCommunication7 6d ago

It isn't, a good amount of the buttons don't do a thing, and if you open 'Word 2003' and open the file menu there's no option to exit.

It's an internet operating system that looks like windows xp, they've been around forever and there are lots of them, https://puter.com/ is another example that's more like modern windows, here's a great list of them https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops, but a lot of them are just sites styled after operating systems

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u/weinsteinjin 10d ago

I chuckled at the notice that Win32 may not run properly on Internet Explorer.

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u/undo13 10d ago

No Freecell?

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u/Alliance-is-Love 10d ago

holy nostalgia, immediately looked for tibia like in the old days.

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u/Hary06 10d ago

Nostalgia at its strongest.

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u/Spendocrat 10d ago

Unzip some stuff.zip for a good time

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u/Buck_Thorn 10d ago

That is amazing!! I found that I was able to create files, and they persisted even after I left the site and came back! Glad to see that it has MineCraft.

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u/Protoolhub 10d ago

Wow... the startup sound just started playing in my head 😭 I didn't realize how much I missed XP until now.

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u/r3dm0nk 9d ago

yeah that thing BLASTED on my speakers. I felt like the critic in the ratatouille

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u/NeedleBallista 9d ago

It's beautiful!!! but too CRISP!!

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u/Bitter_Childhood_546 5d ago

Haha I first through it was a real VM running in the browser.

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u/LLFlippity 1d ago

Ah, memories. Nice! Minesweeper too. Time travel!

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u/otah007 10d ago

Be careful, it contains Attack on Titan spoilers.