An intrepid web developer has re-created the entire Windows 3.1 experience within a browser window, including games, notepad, and a web browser. Truth be told, the included web browser is a major anachronism, since it's apparently standards-compliant in 2010.
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Just use Internet Explorer, then it won't be standards compliant any more. 
Of course, there's always this: http://www.dejavu.org/1993win.htm
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Sorry, but I hate such kind of comments.
Think, the author of such "windows 3.1" site is:
* An incredibly skilled web developer
* A details driven person
and the most important thing:
* A very passionate person on the things he does.
So, probably his "waste of time" will move him to a good work on a good company where the people gives high value to his work...
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Same for Ubuntu (Clone of 6.06, done many years ago for a school project where I had too much time):
http://ossdb.quebecgeeks.net/ossdt/www.protic.net/heritage_2007/lep...
This is a static mirror, so many things are totally broken.
And for OSX:
http://osx.portraitofakite.com/
*Edit: for those you can read french, don't waste your time on that site, it's outdated, incorrect and I spend more time on the site than on the content.
Edited 2010-01-24 07:59 UTC
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God, that was pretty awesome! And really well done, looks and feels like the real thing! Though I have one nag: the Media Player does use Flash for playing video, not HTML5 :/
Anyways, great job, he has clarly put lots of effort on that and achieved what he set out to accomplish. This will be remembered for a good, long time 
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That was decades ago. UI's used by the masses was mostly VT100's tied into a DEC or IBM mainframe. The concept of a Personal Computer and a glitzy, GUI was new and that was ... it.
You could get a Mac for a bajillion dollars or if you worked at a university like MIT or worked at DEC you could be using X Windows and Motif.
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The Unix fans in the crowd might also be interested in Marcin Roguski's website, which has the look and feel of the old Silicon Graphics IRIX operating system GUI.
It even has a boot process -
http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/boot.html
It's a few years old, but it's very cool.
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It even has a boot process -
http://rambo.id.uw.edu.pl/boot.html
It's a few years old, but it's very cool.
That brings back great memories - I'd love to see someone recreate the whole IRIX GUI experience from the ground up on a great operating system core - of course with some subtle updates. It was one of the few UNIX's out there that didn't royally suck when it came to usability.
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Wow! At first I thought it is some sort of real OS but display in web (like those Citrix Application)..but when I look at the webpage source code, it appeared it is not.
The person who created it is surely a talented web programmer.
EDIT: There is no delete command in the Command prompt
Edited 2010-01-25 06:07 UTC
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It reminds me of something similar I wrote for a school assignment in 1993 on the 386's we were provided.
A Windows 3.1 alike GUI in Turbo Pascal. I bought a Logic 3 (IIRC) serial mouse and wrote a mouse driver for it.
All procedural code with lots of inline assembly. No TVision OOP code at all as I didn't understand how that worked at the time.
I still have the code on a floppy in the attic somewhere, unless bit rot has set in.
I showed it in my first interview in '94 and got the job.
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