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Windows 95 released 17 years ago

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Win95 brought Internet to people. I was on BBS I had my own BBS with 56k and I did not know what the internet was. I got the 1.44mb disks from a BBS lol and installed it.

How many people got to net from Dos 7 or Win 3.1 ? ..
Soo Win95 was big and I think it was their biggest cash cow.

It blew me away, going to the new Taskbar. I remember I was 17 , and there was a icon on the desktop said MSN Internet something, anyhow turns out they give free MSN if you installed 95. Soo I got on the net @ .8k modem lol. It was slow but I was like WOW you can go inside the white house and look at pictures...at that time there was yahoo ... Honestly it was a solid OS , we had internet IE 1.0 and netscape were the players then. wow amazing.

Best part of 95 was it boot up fast and was a simple layout.


http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-95-released-17-years-ago-today
 
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Ahh, those were the days. Operating systems weren't nearly as good as they are now, but in 1995 that was still a massive improvement over Windows 3.1. Enough so that you gladly got in line to pick it up, and probably picked up a new computer too due to the system requirements.😛
 
It was Win95 that convinced me to leave the Mac to get a PC. Win95 was a move in the right direction. However, Win8 might be a different story.
 
I remember buying Win95, but I still say in a lot of ways Windows 3.1's Program Manager was a much more "user friendly" GUI. Would have translated very well to the touch screens of today. The grouping of icons iOS and Android let you do are really the exact same concept as the program group from program manager.

But Win95 was really a major change for Windows, and was one of the first consumer operating systems with even some semblance of concepts we now take for granted, like protected mode operation. These days, almost no one has ever seen the error messages that were so common on Win 3.1, like GPFs. It was kind of an ugly hack how Microsoft included it, and it had several strings attached to it, but it was still an important step forward.
 
nemesismk2 said:
I loved using Windows 95 🙂
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Ya i started with Win95 and now im on 98se and i love it
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Some things in the world I expect, like 20 Helens agreeing, China exporting toxic goods, and IDC having graphs to post.

But, that Tweakboy is actually older than I am? I expected that as much as the Spanish Inquisition!
/me looks expectantly at the front door

Anybody else get the beta? Interview With The Vampire > Rob Roy! 😛 Man, those videos were the coolest things in the world, then.
 
Umm... Windows 95 just happened to be the operating system of choice when the Internet became popular from 1995 to 1998. You could get online with Windows 3.1, but configuring Trumpet Winsock was a bit tougher.
 
I pretty much missed Win95 except for the rare times on other's computers. I dropped out of computing after my DOS/Win3.1 machine. I only used Windows then to look at it. I preferred DOS for the speed. I used Win98 a fair amount, but only got back into computing during the XP era. I have little nostalgia for computer software. In general, I think all makers have made increasingly better products, and old stuff is just old. I'm now sitting pretty with Debian, and seeing the direction MS is heading, I think it's a good spot to be in :^)
 
Win 95 OSR2.1B was my 1st experience with MS in 1997. It was the 2nd best OS MS released after Windows XP. I found it incredibly stable with alot of useful features.
 
Ah, Windows 95. This classic OS brings back a lot of early computing and PC gaming memories. The original Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Doom 1 & 2, SimCity 2000, Master of Orion II, and more.

It's hard to imagine that it's 17 years old now... there are AT members here that are the same age as Windows 95 (and younger). 😱
 
Better start menu than we have now (and I'm not even talking Windows 8). The Win 95 Start Menu had a cascading list of program folders which means you didn't have to scroll down to see all your installed programs. And I don't remember the Win 95 Start Menu sometimes taking 5 seconds when hovering over a program folder to see its icons.
 
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