Well, we built another house, and Jerry's music was still played, ... but the thing that arguably had the most lasting effect on daily life was that Graphical User Interface and "Start Menu" of Windows 95. 20 years later, it still reigns supreme over more than 3/4 of the world's computers, and appears (via Windows 7 in some form) on all of mine...
I still play Hover.
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I still use it a couple times a year to collect data with a piece of equipment I can’t replace.
I still have a little Toshiba Protege notebook that will boot W95 and even (on a good day) connect to the internet so I can see just how obsolete a browser from that era has become.
Oh I remember it well when they rolled it out at the major defense corporation I was working at the time. Printing to a shared network printer was one massive nightmare and required the carful nurturing and attention of the IT staff. It seemed the print drivers were never up to the task.
It's a good article, but it is hardly the case that we went from DOS prompts to Windows 95 which would appear to be the case if you had no prior knowledge of early PC OS history. Windows 95 replaced the earlier Windows, Windows 2.x, and Windows 3.x which had in fact replaced DOS. Windows 3.1 was in wide use from 1990 until the introduction of Windows 95.
Remember it well. I’ll be 61 0n Aug. 24th. Bought my first computer with Win 95 in 1996. A Micron 200. With the 15” Sony monitor it came to just over $3400. Last year I bought the latest Mac Mini for a little over $600.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocmJE2O4uIU
Windows 95 “Start Me Up” commercial.
It cost Microsoft $3 million to license.
Gates stole the GUI from Commodore who did not have the accumen to fight him in court.
Damn rodents!!!! I had no computer or anything but I remember the constant news coverage over Windows 95 release. The huddled masses (of geeks) lined up outside stores to buy their copy. The way they go batty over new Apple gadgets these days.
Windows 95 was a quantum leap into making the internet more accessible. Matter of fact my take is the selling out and decline of the United States, via open borders + free trade etc got kicked into high gear with Windows 95 and widespread internet access. Don’t ask me to connect the dots. The year 1995 is a good dividing point.
I still remember upgrading to Win95 on my machine from 3.1. It all seemed like a dream and when that “clouds” background came up for the first time...Wow..
I still remember upgrading to Win95 on my machine from 3.1. It all seemed like a dream and when that “clouds” background came up for the first time...Wow..
I feel like such a noob when I tell them that my first home machine was WinME.(grr)
I recall my uncle buying our family’s ‘first’ computer. It was a Windows 95 that he paid $2,500 for from Radio Shack(lol). A little while later, he got it “upgraded” to 16MB. lol
My wife and I had only been married one month in August of ‘95. We recently celebrated our twentieth anniversary.
Our marriage has yet to crash, or run into the blue screen of death :-)
OS/2 Dec. 1987
AMIGA 1000, Workbench 1.0 July 1985
AMIGA 2000 Workbench 2.0 March 1987
I've owned several Amigas, they were at least 10 years ahead of any other consumer machine on the market at the time and a great deal of the design philosophy of AmigaDOS/Workbench went into Win95.