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Nevilledog

(51,112 posts) Mon Sep 14, 2020, 06:36 PM Sep 2020

25 years ago when Microsoft released Windows 95 (Warning: Dancing Geeks)

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25 years ago when Microsoft released Windows 95 (Warning: Dancing Geeks) (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2020 OP

25 years?? Daaannng! lastlib Sep 2020 #1

Time flies MustLoveBeagles Sep 2020 #2

Windows 95? Na-a-a-ah, that's how I felt with Windows XP! FakeNoose Sep 2020 #3

It was the best program ever. Nothing since has come close katmondoo Sep 2020 #9

Lounge IMO. nt USALiberal Sep 2020 #4

I was at the Start festivities that August. Met Steve Ballmer the night Win95 was released. Roland99 Sep 2020 #5

It made a grown man cry PghTiny Sep 2020 #6

Some history on the Windows 95 Easter egg Roland99 Sep 2020 #7

And some history on the Windows 95 startup sound Roland99 Sep 2020 #8

lastlib

(23,239 posts)

1. 25 years?? Daaannng!

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Sep 14, 2020, 06:40 PM

Sep 2020

(D'ya think I should update now?)

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MustLoveBeagles

(11,611 posts)

2. Time flies

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Sep 14, 2020, 06:42 PM

Sep 2020

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)

3. Windows 95? Na-a-a-ah, that's how I felt with Windows XP!

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Sep 14, 2020, 06:47 PM

Sep 2020

I still love it to this day, but none of my computers support it any more.

katmondoo

(6,457 posts)

9. It was the best program ever. Nothing since has come close

Reply to FakeNoose (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 14, 2020, 07:23 PM

Sep 2020

USALiberal

(10,877 posts)

4. Lounge IMO. nt

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Sep 14, 2020, 06:48 PM

Sep 2020

Roland99

(53,342 posts)

5. I was at the Start festivities that August. Met Steve Ballmer the night Win95 was released.

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Sep 14, 2020, 06:50 PM

Sep 2020

One of the architects of accessibility features, Charles Opperman, is recovering in SW FL from a few weeks in ICU from Covid. He’s been out a couple months and doing rather well but will have therapy for a while.

PghTiny

(276 posts)

6. It made a grown man cry

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Sep 14, 2020, 06:51 PM

Sep 2020

'Start Me Up' by the Stones was well known for that line

Roland99

(53,342 posts)

7. Some history on the Windows 95 Easter egg

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Sep 14, 2020, 06:52 PM

Sep 2020

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69883/musical-easter-egg-hidden-windows-95

Roland99

(53,342 posts)

8. And some history on the Windows 95 startup sound

Reply to Nevilledog (Original post)

Mon Sep 14, 2020, 06:53 PM

Sep 2020

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030908-00/?p=42623

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