How were the operating systems of the past "> history of the internet, repository of the finds of the digital world, where you can see what sites were like in the past, where to find old films, music, books and, from now, even old software . Internet Archive is not a Wikipedia-style list because it also contains an online emulator running directly on the browser that allows you to replay old classic games and reuse old programs .
For nostalgia, for study reasons or simply for curiosity and fun you can replay with an old Atari, a Mac Apple, a Spectrum or a Commodore 64 to games such as Pac-Man, Adventureland, and The Hobbit.
The page of the Historical collection of programs allows you to scroll through some games of the 70s and 80s that are emulated in a complete and playable way.
You can search the alt box and find old programs like Wordstar to write on old PCs or Karateka, an Apple 2 game.
For each program you have to click the word Run on the right.
The JSMESS emulator allows you to have all the old computers in the browser, to be able to run them as they were originally, with the initial screen, interactive and usable.
Many of these software products were the first of their kind, ancestors of modern programs.
On the site jsmachines.net You can try online Windows 1.0, the first Microsoft operating system from 1985.
Of course, you can also try Windows 3.0, the precursor to Windows 95.
Special is then Windows 93, never released and never released.
The Windows 95 emulator is online and can be used via the web for free.
Apple fans can use the old Mac OS System 7 online with James Friend's PCE emulator.
A PC Dos computer is also available on the same site which also includes old historical games such as Wolfenstein, Civilization and Monkey Island .
You can also use an emulator for the Amiga 500, the famous Commodore computer, blockbuster in the 90s.
Finally, to review the old Windows operating systems in action you can go to the virtualdesktop.org website and open Windows 95, 98, XP and Mac OS X, 8.6, 9. 2 and others online.
Speaking of history, we can also remember in other articles:
- History of Windows and PCs
