{"id":1001575,"date":"2026-04-07T08:35:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001575"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:58:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:28:36","slug":"this-windows-98-inspired-launcher-on-apple-app-store-was-designed-with-claude-ai-as-an-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/07\/this-windows-98-inspired-launcher-on-apple-app-store-was-designed-with-claude-ai-as-an-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"This Windows 98-inspired launcher on Apple App Store was designed with Claude AI as an experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an era of AI-driven Windows 11 laptops, a developer has created a nostalgic ode to the good old \u2018offline days\u2019of the classic Windows 98 using AI. The developer has built a fully functional Windows 98-style desktop environment that runs large language models (LLMs) locally without any internet connection, complete with a classic Minesweeper-style game. <\/p>\n<p>The project, known as AI Desktop 98, was created by a Reddit user named SoftSuccessful1414 after an experiment in which they instructed Anthropic\u2019s Claude AI to role-play as if it were running on a 1998 Windows PC, with strict rules \u2013 no cloud access, no Wi-Fi, and only floppy-disk-era limitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an era of AI-driven Windows 11 laptops, a developer has created a nostalgic ode to the good old \u2018offline days\u2019of the classic Windows 98 using AI. The developer has built a fully functional Windows 98-style desktop environment that runs large language models (LLMs) locally without any internet connection, complete with a classic Minesweeper-style game. The project, known as AI Desktop 98, was created by a Reddit user named SoftSuccessful1414 after an experiment in which they instructed Anthropic\u2019s Claude AI to role-play as if it were running on a 1998 Windows PC, with strict rules \u2013 no cloud access, no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}