Question: Once every decade I get the itch to boot up a Windows 1.0 environment to poke around at it and marvel at how far we've come. However, in any of the environments I've seen (say [PCjs](https://www.pcjs.org/)), they never seem to have anything other than the default applications which came with Windows (e.g. WRITE.EXE, CALC.EXE, etc.)

I've tried using Google to find old Windows 1.0 applications, but what you end up with is simply version 1.0's of applications written for Windows, not applications written **for** Windows 1.0.

So that being said, is anyone aware of a repository of software designed for this ancient version of Windows? Even Windows 2.0 (whether 286 or 386 versions) would probably suffice.

Answer: 
[Internet Archive](https://archive.org) holds a repository of retrocomputing software, some runnable in browser emulations. Searching for ["Windows 2.0"](https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22windows%202.0%22&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22software%22) and ["Windows 1.0"](https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22windows%201.0%22&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22software%22) software yields some hits for applications, including CD-ROMs of shareware collections.

(The keyword search is imprecise and also locates software for later versions of Windows, but you may find some surprises.)
<https://winworldpc.com/home>
this website has a lot of old software on it, there is some for Windows 1.0.