Rebuilding the Windows 98 Defrag Simulator

There's a specific kind of satisfaction that comes from watching the Windows 98 defrag screen do its thing. Clusters shuffling around. That progress bar crawling. The sense that your computer was doing something important, even if you had no idea what. That's the feeling I wanted to bottle when I built the first version of defrag98.com back in 2024. The project took off beyond anything I'd expected. It got picked up by Hacker News and The Verge, and people from all over the world spent time star