17 · Windows 98

Teal desktop. Chiseled chrome. Three windows.

Notepad (About) + Explorer (My Stuff) + WordPad (Writing) on the teal desktop, MS Sans Serif throughout, a working Start menu, draggable windows, a live taskbar clock.

Hand-built in MS Paint.

udaysinh

/p/win98/—open ↗

/p/win98/

open fullscreen — better on a phone

The page above is the prototype itself, unmodified. Open in a new tab to drive it full-size.

Make your own

Recreate Windows 98 with an AI agent.

Copies a structured brief — palette, fonts, techniques, the design notes — ready to paste into Cursor, Claude Code, or any agent that takes a markdown prompt. Originality on the bones is encouraged.

Techniques used

What this sheet demonstrates.

`localStorage` for small honest state
Hit counters, font choices, fake battery levels.

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