And XP was one of the best Windows, minus a few glaring holes. Some of which could be patched over with third-party apps and some completely missing, like a modern terminal.
Bottom line, XP was about the best there was just after the turn of the century, assuming you were safe behind a NAT and smart enough to use the new Firefox rather than IE in the coming years.
BTW as an Amiga fan, let me take you back to Kickstart 1.3 and a few demos:
...I realized why at around the fourth try.
See also:
chromium --kiosk <url>
firefox --new-window --kiosk <url>
I was running it windowed, on a Linux box.
And it still triggered the "... oh F---!" response.
Very, very well done.
I've not seen it in decades, but there was a great little site in a similar vein years ago that would detect your OS (Windows or Linux) and be an "animated GIF" of a remote exploit of some sort or another, the usual "run exploit, grab root, run id to prove you're root" thing (the Windows version was similar). Except, it was dynamic based on your public IP. So most people didn't get it. And sysadmin types, who usually did know their public IP, had to restart their heart.
That's old news! :)