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We love to see examples of how powerful current everyday technology is compared to the tech of just a few decades ago, but this might be the best example we've seen yet.

Software developer Nick Lee pulled off the ultimate Apple Watch hack: getting it to run Windows 95.

In the video's description, Lee compares the Apple Watch's 520 MHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, and 8GB of internal storage to the meager processer and memory specs offered by '90s computers. For comparison, consider that a fairly "powerful" Apple computer in 1995 offered just 500 megabytes of hard drive space.

And in a Medium post, Lee goes on to explain some of how he got the hack to work, saying, "it’s possible to patch certain files within a WatchKit app to load your own application code rather than Apple’s."

After the software is installed it takes about an hour to run, but as you can see in the video, good luck getting any real-world use out of it. Just attempting to get the menus to work takes repeated finger swipes on a very tiny, specific area of the screen.

But while the hack is wildly impractical and almost completely unusable, the demonstration is nevertheless another reminder that we're all a bit spoiled when even think of calling devices like the Apple Watch useless, or a toy.

Remember that the next time you look at the Apple Watch's screen full of apps and roll your eyes — the tech we have on our wrist was what was required to run an entire computer just a couple of decades ago.

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