{"id":21457,"date":"2016-02-01T03:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T11:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/you-can-now-run-windows-95-in-your-web-browser"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:13:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:13:32","slug":"you-can-now-run-windows-95-in-your-web-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/you-can-now-run-windows-95-in-your-web-browser","title":{"rendered":"You can now run Windows 95 in your web browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/you-can-now-run-windows-95-in-your-web-browser.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windows 95 just won\u2019t die. The older it gets, the more versatile it becomes. We\u2019ve seen it running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technobuffalo.com\/2014\/10\/05\/yes-this-samsung-gear-live-is-running-windows-95\/\">on smartwatches<\/a>, tablets, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technobuffalo.com\/2016\/01\/04\/windows-95-on-new-nintendo-3ds\/\">and handheld consoles<\/a> \u2014 and now you can run it right inside your web browser in an instant.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Faulds, a 19-year-old developer from Scotland, has been able to get Windows 95 running in almost any web browser using emscripten, an emulator that converts C++ code to JavaScript in real-time. It requires no downloads, plugins, or any special software.<\/p>\n<p>The emulator takes a minute to load up, but once you\u2019re inside it, it\u2019s surprisingly snappy. It provides you with a full Windows 95 operating system and everything you\u2019d expect to get with it \u2014 including classic games like Solitaire and Minesweeper \u2014 and it runs incredibly well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technobuffalo.com\/2016\/01\/31\/you-can-now-run-windows-95-in-your-web-browser\/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 95 just won\u2019t die. The older it gets, the more versatile it becomes. We\u2019ve seen it running on smartwatches, tablets, and handheld consoles \u2014 and now you can run it right inside your web browser in an instant. Andrea Faulds, a 19-year-old developer from Scotland, has been able to get Windows 95 running in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68647,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21457\/revisions\/68647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}