Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window 9x (2019)

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  • ui95

    🖥 WIP: A preact implementation of Windows 95/98/ME style components and apps. See it in action on my personal site at https://ash.ms

    • The author also released a lot of these UI components as an ISC-licensed Preact library: https://github.com/AshKyd/ui95

  • OS.js

    OS.js - JavaScript Web Desktop Platform

    • Anyone knows the framework used to build such a website?

    I had been looking for this and the closest I could found is https://www.os-js.org

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Hacker95

    Discontinued Style Hacker News like its Windows 95

    • I just found the following to style HN like Windows 95:

    https://github.com/chowderman/Hacker95

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