by Back in the day, Morrowind was one of those games that you wanted to upgrade your PC to play - the combination of long view distances, plenty of NPCs and a huge open world made it supremely demanding. Nowadays, hardware is of course much more powerful, but software support has become the issue. That's why I was cheered to see that a modder has been able to make Morrowind playable in your web browser.
The project is called OpenMW-Web, and it uses the open source reimplementation of the game (OpenMW) that was developed back in 2021. The idea back then was to provide support for all modern operating systems - Windows, Mac and Linux - and ensure Morrowind remains playable on modern PCs without stutters, physics bugs and other oddities and limitations of the original 2002 NetImmerse engine.
By default, the web app lets you plunk yourself down into a generic area to test things out, but if you point the web app towards original Morrowind data files, the original game becomes playable from start to finish. It's possible to change options and save your game, so you could conceivably complete the entire thing this way - though using the normal downloadable version of OpenMW is probably easier.
Still, it's quite an achievement from developer /u/Dumpster_Buddy, who says that they planning to add mod support (!) and potentially even multiplayer (!!) in the future. If that comes to pass, could Morrowind become the hot multiplayer RPG of the summer? Definitely not, but seeing a game I spent dozens of hours playing over 20 years ago in unexpected places still makes me feel oddly happy.