If you were able to install windows 95 on a computer today, will it still work?

Unless you can somehow still upgrade Internet Explorer to version 6.0 or something, freshly installed Win95 (with IE 5.5, I think) will not recognize whether you have a network connection to a LAN, even if you do have a Win95 driver for your Ethernet or WiFi. It will ask you to make a dial up networking connection instead.

I am not sure if you can even download any old updates for Win95 any more, since it reached end of support a long time ago and the oldest Windows that Microsoft even lists on their lifecycle fact sheet is WinXP.

you probably wouldn't be able to find any drivers for any of the components for it to work.

newer operating systems have default drivers that usually get components to work, like the chipset, CPU, expansion slots, USB slots, graphics cards etc.

you would also run into HDD space allocation issues, windows 95 would not be able to use such large HDD's, it would be limited to something like 60GB or less and have issues with the amounts of RAM in modern computers.

so it probably wouldn't work.

if you want a small operating system that will work, google 'DSL' (damn small linux) and you can burn it to a disc and run the operating system off the disk, there are a few other Live linux distro's.

I think you could be successful, but you may not be able to use the web, because most of the current websites demand updated abilities that were not around when W95 was used. Besides that, though, you could probably use other apps.