To get Windows 95 running on other platforms, Rieseberg put Windows 95 into an Electron app, a popular cross-platform development framework that uses web technologies. The app is available on GitHub in a file that's less than 130MB in size. I'm so sorry,' Rieseberg tweeted, announcing the app. 'It's a terrible idea that works shockingly well. Thanks to Slack developer Felix Rieseberg, that old PC experience can now be relived whether today you're running Windows 10, a Mac or Linux.
Windows 95, the version that made fans queue up for a boxed copy 20 years ago, was for many people the first desktop OS they used.