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A Windows 95 style desktop built in five hours for a hackathon
An Electron, React and Node.js Windows 95 clone with AI in the old programs won a hackathon, built with Claude Code.
Credits
- Reddit poster brunobertapeli Source ↗
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The poster built a working Windows 95 style desktop with Electron, React and Node.js in five hours, running 5 to 10 Claude Code terminals at once. AI was added to the old programs, including Paint, MS-DOS (running Claude Code), Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger, Excel, Winamp and Clippy (using Gemini).
It won the Frontier Tech Week Y2K Hackathon.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: This week Claude and I won the Frontier Tech Week Y2K Hackathon 2026!Reddit poster: brunobertapeliPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: This week Claude and I won the Frontier Tech Week Y2K Hackathon 2026! (opens in a new tab)
- The video: youtube.com
Linked in the post.