THIS GUY TOLD CLAUDE IT WAS STUCK IN 1998 AND BUILT A FULL WINDOWS 98 AI ASSISTANT FROM IT
he gave it one rule: "you're on Windows 98. no cloud. no wifi. no modern anything. just floppy disks and the Start menu."
and Claude went all in
it started writing fake BIOS boot screens like an old Pentium II starting up.
pretending to wait for the modem to connect before replying.
throwing out "General Protection Fault" errors that gave him actual anxiety.
so he kept going and built the whole thing into a real app:
> a Recycle Bin that actually keeps deleted chats
> a My Documents folder where conversations sit like files
> a retro browser that acts like it's crawling over dial-up
> an offline AI assistant that never touches the internet
it runs a local AI model on your phone or laptop. completely private and nothing leaves your device.
but if you want to use ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude instead, you can plug in your API key and use those cloud models from inside Windows 98.
it's like if Windows 98 had a built-in AI that actually worked