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Along with the not-as-ancient clients they have, Escargot offers clients for MSN 1.0 to 3.6...
But I'm not sure if it's feasible for them to run on actual retro systems. I don't know how different Escargot's code is from MSN's, and I wouldn't be surprised if Escargot was designed to run on modern machines. >.< The thought makes me really excited, though.
Tangentially, I have to wonder if there's any corner of the internet designated to people who use retro machines. Yes, "it has a name and that name is retrocomputing" - but if there are people designing websites specifically to be enjoyed on old machines, just because it's fun and they like it, I think I'd explode. Those are my people and I need to find them! >w<
FFffffff I always get too excited to find the right words when I talk about this stuff... I feel like a wild animal and someone's waving a fat steak in front of me :''D
Edit: I don't have an answer to this, but I've found out that you can, apparently, reactivate MSN on old devices through the Registry! Ahhh... ;w;
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Alveus Nosville
I'd try Windows 2000
they look similarly but 95 and 98 run on top of DOS and 2000 runs on the NT base we still use today
They changed a fuckton in Win 7 as well so it may not work but I can also tell you that windows server versions will let you set the "classic" theme on them on the 2008 version which is based on win 7
One detail : the major changes were with Vista (NT 6), not with 7 (NT 6.1). But you're correct on everything else :')
by Luna ☆; ; Report
Yea Vista was the big kernel change, but the software used for the system still had MANY holdovers from xp, so it always felt like 7 was the gig leap. I will admit, I forgor it was the software tools not kernel that changed.
by Alveus Nosville; ; Report
Actually, you can still find some old XP (or even older) programs on Windows 11.
In many ways, Windows 7 is just a rebranding of Vista. And still as of today, the architecture remains the same (it's just that there's now a lot of bloatware ; and overlays for Microsoft Store apps, newer games and even the explorer)
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