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Every now and then, the internet gifts us something so weirdly perfect that it makes you stop scrolling and whisper: finally, someone gets it.
A developer named Gorjan Jovanovski has created a free Android launcher that turns your modern smartphone into a fully functional Windows XP nostalgia machine. We're talking the green hill, the blue sky, the Start button - even Winamp and Solitaire. And yes, they actually work.
The launcher doesn't just look like Windows XP - it behaves like it. You can open apps from a functioning Start Menu, rename desktop icons, and even hear those classic boot-up and shutdown sounds we haven't experienced since 2003. It also comes with a working Internet Explorer (which still somehow opens), a dialer app that looks like it came straight off a Nokia brick phone, and that 3D Pipes screensaver you probably watched for hours as a kid, waiting for that illusive teapot.
Of course, it's not from the Play Store (for copyright reasons), so you'll have to sideload it - meaning install at your own risk. But for anyone who misses the clunky charm of Microsoft's most beloved operating system, it's worth it for the nostalgia alone.
It's both absurd and kind of beautiful: in 2025, we're running Windows XP on phones more powerful than the PCs that once struggled to open Minesweeper.