You know you love Windows 95, and now it's an app

For kids of a certain era, Windows 95 was part of our first experience with computers. 

If the relatively ancient operating system still holds a special place in your heart, you'll be glad to know that it's available as an app for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Put together by Slack dev Felix Rieseberg, the 129mb file downloadable from GitHub allows you to reminisce on the old days of MS Paint and wasting time on Solitaire. 

The operating system is encased in electron, a framework for building cross-platform apps with HTML and CSS. 

There are, of course, some things that don't work. Minesweeper doesn't really let you do the sweeping, and Internet Explorer won't let you surf the net — as it simply doesn't connect to the web. Read more...