It might be worth pointing out that as part of the joke they did actually make the app. You can download it, and it does have a convincing Windows 95 GUI.
A fully functional pixel-perfect Windows 95 application in Electron
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Re: A fully functional pixel-perfect Windows 95 application in Electron
#22The sad thing about this joke is I kinda miss this UI ...
I miss the speed and features. 15 years ago email or IRC applications (The Bat, mIRC) started in milliseconds, and had tons of features. Today webapps take forever to start and are severely limited.
Exactly. I feel really sad that my computer from 10 years ago with Pentium3, 256 MB of RAM and a 40 GB HDD felt faster than my current i7-7770 with 64 GB of RAM and a SSD.
Re: A fully functional pixel-perfect Windows 95 application in Electron
#23I wonder how well it would perform on windows 95/98/ME.