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@Scrapla14 жыл бұрын
This was a fun era. I loved the late 90s early 00's internet freedom.
@nakiti174 жыл бұрын
9/11 changed everything...
@aaleeksii4 жыл бұрын
Massive corporations changed everything
@xboxgamer74534 жыл бұрын
Trump changed everything!
@mrcyberpunk4 жыл бұрын
I'm shocked at how many of us are here LOL.
@Tidushii4 жыл бұрын
@@xboxgamer7453 Yeah yeah we get it Mr NPC.. ''orange man bad'' can you like poop for 5 min tho without hating what the media tells you to hate, is thinking for yourself an option? if not then please do not vote or multiply, thnx in advance. - Humanity
@rajvinder895 жыл бұрын
It's crazy to think how well they nailed the UI in 95, so much so that Windows 10 essentially still operates in very much the same way.
@dave-yj9mc4 жыл бұрын
wasted bloatwhare and redundently wasted ram.
@manuelleivatalledo6154 жыл бұрын
@@dave-yj9mc Dislexia?
@AchmadBadra4 жыл бұрын
@@dave-yj9mc lol, you describe about google chrome, node js, android, and java runtime? Lol
@dave-yj9mc4 жыл бұрын
@@AchmadBadra LOL Ya .. netscape too... I liked dos. There was only one was to do stuff and it was all in a book and easy to find.
@epajarjestys99813 жыл бұрын
@@manuelleivatalledo615 u spelt dyslexia rwong
@baldguyadventure3 жыл бұрын
Anyone else miss those huge Computer Shopper magazines? I loved looking at all those awesome PCs and accessories!
@g00glian0 Жыл бұрын
I have several
@raul0ca Жыл бұрын
There was a postscript section by Don Lancaster
@jessejames586 Жыл бұрын
I spent hours looking through them
@g00glian0 Жыл бұрын
@@jessejames586 One of the two I own has an advertisement for a 486. I sure miss those days, it was all so exciting. I still enjoy computers, but nearly as fun. I guess because most I knew, knew nothing about them.
@PlasmaCoolantLeak Жыл бұрын
I miss those ads for shops where you could build your own tower. Good times.
@Tim.Hammer4 жыл бұрын
Back when new computer technology was fresh and exciting... not repetitive and exhausting... I remember playing around with some of these old machines when I was young, and how it seemed like magic. These days, there is little magic to computers, because we have lost perspective of life without them.
@50centgotshot9times4 жыл бұрын
Exactly right.
@rexevan67144 жыл бұрын
Because it became part of our life, so many people will take it for granted. Back when Computers we're not so common, it's still growing and new things keep popping up.
@Tim.Hammer4 жыл бұрын
@@rexevan6714 Yes, of course there is always advancement to look forward to. But my main point is that the entire reality of home computers was a relatively new thing then. And now that it gradually develops, there isn't such amazement. Also, back then, the simplicity of programs only further highlighted the underlying structure of what makes a computer what it is. Now, things are so advanced, that our view of computers and how they work is so far removed from the actual working parts of the machine. It's almost like people these days literally see a computer as some magical screen that just does stuff... because it does... and always has... There is very little perspective and appreciation for the jewels we hold in our hands...
@Langkowski4 жыл бұрын
For each new version of the operative systems they become less and less accessible for the average user. With Windows 98 you could to some degree open the hood to see what was underneath. It makes me wonder if those who design these systems actually use them themselves. They're like chefs trying to make nutritious meals without even bother to taste the food they want others to eat.
@Yomom123884 жыл бұрын
Tim Hansen you can absolutely still get under the hood in Windows 10 if you want to, there’s just really no requirements to do do anymore. Overall I think that’s a good thing. I’ve taken the time to learn Powershell because it was fun. However, the more accessible experience has made computers accessible to basically everyone and that’s great.
@JamieLikesGames5 жыл бұрын
Man I can't wait for Windows 95 to come out!
@Annifloyd4 жыл бұрын
Just wait till 2095. With any luck, they'll name it Windows 95.
@arcanosxqueflanmebloqueode45453 жыл бұрын
let me guess, Internet Explorer?
@NotoriousPyro3 жыл бұрын
It will be here soon, don't worry.
@tomasnokechtesledger17863 жыл бұрын
Taskbar and functional Win icon, called Start button.
@waves203 жыл бұрын
We got a long away as we are now on Windows 1p
@mikewilliams75194 жыл бұрын
dragging files onto a printer icon! Never knew that - I've always done ctrl p. think of all those nano seconds I could save saved since 1995
@sewknow55134 жыл бұрын
Omg! What?
@KabelkowyJoe4 жыл бұрын
I think it was wishful thinking of this dude either, they had to cut that scene because for them it also never worked imo ;) I never tried though.
@JaredConnell4 жыл бұрын
@JevvoBruv no its much quicker because you don't have to open the application then hit ctrl p and wait for that dialog box to open and the hit enter for it to print. Not it may not save much time but back in windows 9x days it took a lot of time to do all that
@SimDeck3 жыл бұрын
Just found this out myself. Been using windows since 3.0......durp!
@Zedek3 жыл бұрын
@@JaredConnell Actually, it does. Opening the printer browser makes it refresh the list of possible printers to print on, and even in 2020 in our company, we get ALL the printers listed from the boss' laser printer up to the plotter in the basement. By specifically dropping it into Printer X, this network-wide polling on active printers is not required and it's much faster.
@KayoMichiels3 жыл бұрын
for a 1994 recording and only 480p, the quality of this picture is astounding!
@dorlaretz59013 жыл бұрын
I have seen better
@JimmyFoxhound3 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh I enjoyed this ear of computing! I was in high school around this time. Such a different era, the internet was the WILD west and I LOVED it!! Windows 95 was such an amazing upgrade. Great times man.. amazing.
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
real men don't need mice🤣🤣🤣
@carlhartwell79784 жыл бұрын
Think I'm becoming addicted to these videos...it's always good to keep up to date with the progress of computers!
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
are you excited about the coming of windows 95 I got a feeling it's going to be huge when it launches🤣🤣🤣
@carlhartwell7978 Жыл бұрын
@@raven4k998 Yes, and apparently they'll be this thing called... The Web, not sure exactly what it is, but I certainly want one of those!
@AchtungEnglander3 жыл бұрын
"and where can I stash any porn and hid it from the wife ?" " Windows 95 has thought of that. We created a special folder called Work Accounts Stuff. The chances she will look in there is slim" "Thanks. Seems Bill Gates thought of everything" "Exactly"
@ayanjit91963 жыл бұрын
Especially that thing 🤣😁🤣
@raven4k9983 жыл бұрын
@@ayanjit9196 bill gates was a genius 🤣😁🤣🤣😁🤣
@Christobanistan Жыл бұрын
You mean your total of 3, 21kb, 256 color pics of individual boobs?
@arvindhmani06Ай бұрын
Gotta be at least 3 folders underneath to be sure.
@Tamethefrontier8 жыл бұрын
The start button and toolbar changed EVERYTHING, just look at windows 10, its skeleton is essentially the same as win 95!
@ChristopherGray008 жыл бұрын
No actually the two operating systems are completely different, windows 95 was just a highly modified version of MS-DOS, windows 10 is well, of it's own operating system, plus few stuff from windows 7 still in windows 10. If you're talking about JUST the UI and not the actual code of the two operating systems, then i guess you're right
@Tamethefrontier8 жыл бұрын
Code Ex Thats precisely what i was talking about, of course they are completely different code wise.
@hifijohn7 жыл бұрын
no, windows 3.x was just a graphical version of DOS, windows 9X was a real OS it used DOS for just for boot up. @10:34 as far as size, win95 was about 50M, win98 installed was over 200M and grew to 600M with all the fixes, xp started at 1.5G and vista through win 10 starts at 7G and with updates(fixes)easily can go over 20G! but vista through win10 have pretty much the same files in their system32 folder.
@toddstewart90705 жыл бұрын
good ol win95. the os that changed everything
@mrkitty7774 жыл бұрын
When I have to crap, I will think about Windows, think it makes crapping a lot more easier.
@Wavetheory854 жыл бұрын
Upgrade to Windows 95 over my previous MS Dos was eye opening. I was so young, but glad to have experienced some of those glory days of pc evolution.
@chillinoutmaxin46302 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1990 and I remember using 3.1 on my dad's Toshiba Satellite work laptop in '94 - '95 (of course he had some games on there, Doom II, Spear of Destiny etc). I too am so glad that I got to grow up in this renaissance era of PCs and the birth of the Internet. There will never be another time like that again.
@bchristian85 Жыл бұрын
@@chillinoutmaxin4630 I think everyone had at least the shareware versions of Doom and Wolfenstein 3D during the Windows 3.1 era. I really miss that era and wish I would have kept my old 386 PC from that time. I threw it in the trash in the 2000s thinking I'd never want it again.
@scotttunnix3134 жыл бұрын
"Don't copy that floppy!" Haha - Amazing.
@stevenv21903 жыл бұрын
You wouldn't download a car, would you? - I would if I could. Oh, look here's a 3d printer...
@raven4k9983 жыл бұрын
yeah well that only applies to floppy's which by the way no one uses anymore anyways so who cares about don't copy that floppy
@MrMarlowe34882 жыл бұрын
i feel like the real computer chronicles heads know that things went downhill when it went from sponsored by byte magazine and shareware exchange zines to "Don't Copy That Floppy"
@calvinsaxon58225 жыл бұрын
This makes me so happy that these shows are available here. (tears streaming down face). Thank you. Thank you. Sincerely.
@folksurvival3 жыл бұрын
Lay off the soy.
@DavidPigbody Жыл бұрын
@@folksurvivallmao
@francescocarpinelli50634 жыл бұрын
Those years were like the old west, no bounds, no laws, a whole free world to discover each day. Altavista as search engine, hotmail mail service, HTML chats, computer fairs was each year a leap ahead...oh damn.
@890slay6 жыл бұрын
There was something adventurous and exciting about computers back when their popularity wasn't so widespread. Now it's like no big deal.
@richardhammer1873 жыл бұрын
Yep, I miss it being niche, a proper hobby, not just chasing the best FPS figures on games.
@bchristian85 Жыл бұрын
@@richardhammer187 It stopped being a proper hobby when it became cheaper to buy a pre-built with a high-end graphics card than building your own. I used to always build my own computers but choose not to now because the prices are so high compared to getting something like an HP Omen or something from IBuyPower.
@magesalmanac6424 Жыл бұрын
The magic is lost once you learn how to use it. The feeling of exploration goes away.
@hajivideos91043 жыл бұрын
It's so cool that we can see footage of 1994 Beta versions of Windows 95!
@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын
yeah it is that the betas are saved in video footage for all time thanks to this show capturing it for all time
@horrortackleharry4 жыл бұрын
3:45 Funny how she emphasises dragging documents to the printer icon. I've never done that in 25 years of using PCs for both work & home....
@trailersic4 жыл бұрын
I hate dragging things, just have to have a hiccup, or the mouse button loses connection for a second and now you gotta get that thing off the desctop or worse find which window you were dragging it across it went into. Mac Users eh?
@cjosephbornefilms3 жыл бұрын
Well, she's talking about Mac, which didn't have a right click at that point. Dragging the shortcut onto the printer icon probably was faster than opening the program and printing.
@TheSteveSteele3 жыл бұрын
Actually it wasn’t a bad workflow. You treated printers like servers, drives or queues. And you could have multiple printer icons so you could print or fax documents to any printer destination on the LAN or WAN. It was like a drag and drop batch processor. Imagine a workplace that had several buildings, floors, etc.. Desktop Printing made it easy for a VP’s assistant (for example), to send multiple documents to dozens of printers, from severs or downloads, all without having to open the application that the document belonged to, (maybe they didn’t have the parent app). That’s where this workflow really shined and got a lot of use.
@lucius19763 жыл бұрын
Ctrl+P is so much better and faster
@gaius_marius3 жыл бұрын
I remember Windows 95, it was a big deal. I was a Macintosh System 7 user at the time, and I was blown away by how cool and revolutionary Windows 95 looked. I even got a new laptop so I could run it.
@Christobanistan Жыл бұрын
I always loved how modern Mac's OS looked during the Windows 1.0 to 3.1 era, though I've never switched. I think the task bar was the inspiration for Mac's app bar at the bottom a later on. Essentially, they adopted the idea of a Start Menu w/o calling it that.
@bitwize Жыл бұрын
I was at MacWorld '95 just before Windows 95 dropped. There were a lot of T-shirts that said "Windows 95 = Mac '84" and "C:\ONGRTLNS.W95". Not many Mac users thought that Windows 95 was anything but playing partial catch-up, so I'm somewhat surprised to hear it blew you away.
@davidt8087 Жыл бұрын
@@bitwizeYea but apple computers were extremely expensive back then and we're mostly used in businesses or schools. The top end apple in the 80s was only black and white. While it did have a UI, ultimately windows won becsuse it was just easier to use, and less expensive for ppl to buy so Devs could make more money. Apple has always been a closed ecosystem, not so much in the 80s, but starting in the 90s they became very closed off.
@oldtwinsna8347 Жыл бұрын
@@davidt8087 Also, it was lipstick on a pig thing for the pre-OSX era Macs. The UI looked nice but the underlying OS was primitive, unstable, and was a death bed for future technologies coming around. Recall that Apple spent hundreds of millions on two failed projects (Taligent and then Copland) to get a new OS implemented before admitting they were functionally incapable of building an OS from scratch and so went on their quest to the outside world, eventually landing on NeXT.
@zacharyfindlay-maddox171 Жыл бұрын
Windows 95 was such a golden era! I remember the feeling of a whole new world with it. I miss the excitement that people felt during this era.
@georgie27133 жыл бұрын
I can Imagine how exciting it must’ve been to watch the internet and tech develop as fast as it did in the 90s!
@Christobanistan Жыл бұрын
Ha! Yeah, our family got an 8086 in the late 80s (on which I learned GWBASIC by accident by reading the manuals and typing the commands). Then at 18 I bought my first PC, a Packard Bell 486 and then it was the Pentium II that surprised everyone with the huuuge increase in speed...
@vagtsal Жыл бұрын
I lived it and I must say that it pales in comparison to the smartphones and social media inflation of the late '00 early '10.
@BrianSmith-yq7ys Жыл бұрын
circa 1996 the internet was dam frustrating to watch a page load
@Dr.W.Krueger Жыл бұрын
the prospect of countless clueless, mouth-breathing mice pushers invading and watering down your field? sure, outright thrilling.
@BrianSmith-yq7ys Жыл бұрын
I’m 1995 it took five minutes to load one webpage
@richardteran54783 жыл бұрын
Windows 95, my very first OS and my absolute favourite!!!
@McRyach11 ай бұрын
Windows 95 it was my first portal to the cyber world. Microsoft will always have a special place in my heart. Dial-up connection sounds were like an Ode of Joy score for accessing the whole world
@gkexposure41013 жыл бұрын
It’s crazy how much of it still remains the same.
@johneygd8 жыл бұрын
1994 laid the foundation for 1995. Windows 95 caused an atomic explosion in the computer industry that following year,becoming mainstream.
@Doctorj18 жыл бұрын
YOU ARE EVERYWHERE
@jeremyjohnson88447 жыл бұрын
It most certainly did.
@mattyfrommacc15547 жыл бұрын
and Microsoft have tried and failed to get rid of the start menu which debuted in win 95, I still use classic shell which emulates the classic win 95/98/2000/XP start menu :)
@Discrimination_is_not_a_right7 жыл бұрын
And it wasn't all that long ago, either.
@CeeStyleDj7 жыл бұрын
Thanks to the Mac GUI.....
@Drago19959 жыл бұрын
these old windows look more entertaining then the modern ones
@WAQWBrentwood8 жыл бұрын
Win9x had a more "pro" look IMHO....My inner geek approves!
@jamesjiao6 жыл бұрын
Yes in a way.. nowadays, everything's taken care of for you under the hood.. and you need to do very little to maintain the OS.
@maynnemillares4 жыл бұрын
@Невада большевик Windows 95 was not a member of NSA Prism, Windows 10 is.
@FrankCastleTIG3 жыл бұрын
@Невада большевик No shit. Peoples nostalgia for old awful OS is weird. I'll admit to having nostalgia for macOS Tiger from 2005 but that was really good (esp compared to how awful Windows still was back then), but I don't get the nostalgia for Win 95 and 98 at all. And writing this as someone who used the Chicago beta before 95 came out...
@a......52143 жыл бұрын
Win 93 looks more cutting edge than 10
@deckard5pegasus6732 жыл бұрын
Go watch a demo of NeXT computer in 1992. Not only does it have everything that windows 95 does, but also Windows NT or even Windows 2000 and XP. In other words about 10 year ahead of Microsoft. But even more impressive is that Gary Kildall, had came out with a Multitasking Windowing operating system with GEM and MP/M (multitask CP/M) one year before windows 1.0, and was 10 years ahead of anyone else. RIP Gary Kildall, The Computer Chronicles sold him out, and focused on Microsoft through the years instead of recognizing they had a TRUE pioneering computer genius in their very own studio.
@kFYatek8 жыл бұрын
The guy is firing up TIE Fighter at 10:50! Good game choice! Although I personally couldn't get it to work in a Win95 DOS box back in the day. It was one of those few games I had to actually run under the true DOS mode after a reboot.
@trailersic4 жыл бұрын
Yeah I notice it cut away before it showed it was running at 2 frames a second.
@warrax111 Жыл бұрын
no, you are just windows 95 noob
@zacharyfindlay-maddox171 Жыл бұрын
I loved TIE FIGHTER! Such a fun game to play.
@Mrx200210 жыл бұрын
"Real men don't use mice" Man im glad that didn't stick!!!
@ruthlessadmin9 жыл бұрын
Keyboarding through windows is way faster and easier. It's just not as immediately intuitive...You don't really have to learn how to point and click but you do have to learn the keyboard shortcuts.
@mythril49 жыл бұрын
Men need mice now, the other hand is simply too busy. HAHAHA!!
@GenericRubbishName9 жыл бұрын
statikreg Lol "windows..." Real men don't use GUIs.
@mythril49 жыл бұрын
GenericRubbishName Real men work effectively so they have more time for their life. ;)
@ruthlessadmin9 жыл бұрын
GenericRubbishName Agreed! My preference has always been Linux/Bash, but unfortunately, you can't do much gaming that way, and that's a big part of my computer time =/
@millermonsterair3 жыл бұрын
23:00 being able to do things like that was a HUGE deal back then. now, a PC would do that work faster than you could work on the images. in most cases, faster than you could even blink. the power now is insane when you compare it. its a struggle kids today will never know.
@radiosnmore Жыл бұрын
Bring back. We need this show back yo. ...and YES this format will still work today
@tremorist9 жыл бұрын
Hail to the start button!
@ChrisNova7778 жыл бұрын
+tremorist u mean the upside down applemenu> ? :)
@burntoutelectronics4 жыл бұрын
Chris Nova777 that came from Xerox? As Steve jobs once said good artists copy great artists steal
@bsd1073 жыл бұрын
Notice the TRUE multithreading capability of Micrographix Picture Publisher. The application itself would multitask - you could edit one photo while others were being processed, printed, etc. It was probably best multithreaded application for a desktop machine, ever. Even in 2020 Photoshop doesn’t have this kind of functionality. Amazing. Oh, the good old early days of multitasking operating systems, when at lease some developers tried to really, really harness what the new operating systems would allow...
@davidt8087 Жыл бұрын
It's funny because whenever a new Nvidia GPU comes out that's faster than anything else, the games don't really improve much until consoles come out years later with GPU power of half a decade earlier. The 1080ti came out in 2017, yet the ps5 came out years later, and it's GPU was only as fast as a 1080 I think not even a 1080ti, yet only when the consoles come out do graphics on average get much much better. Today, the 4090 GPU can easily have PS6 graphics, yet no one will even tax that GPU. Unreal engine 5 is good enough for PS6 quality games but right now we still are maximizing what a GPU from 2016-2017 can do at its best for the PS5 and EX BOOXX 2
@totoroben Жыл бұрын
One thing that's super useful in more modern versions of Windows is the search bar in the start bar area, so instead of navigating through the start menu you can just type the thing you want.
@RuruFIN5 жыл бұрын
Drinking game: take a shot every time the Microsoft guy says "exactly" :D
@ZeroHourProductions4074 жыл бұрын
No thanks. I choose life. 💀
@wolfgangamadeusjoshdephuta93714 жыл бұрын
Hyw hte ucfk idd i lstin to uyo
@blacbraun4 жыл бұрын
@@ZeroHourProductions407 Exactly!
@carlybishop61604 жыл бұрын
I hadn't really noticed it to begin with but now you have said that it actually annoys me every time he says it!
@chevron-vw5rn3 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@MarkyShaw7 жыл бұрын
Really awesome to see Visio back in its early days before MS bought them! Cool to see how they took advantage of the resources MS provided with their OS.
@amtwebview2 ай бұрын
Can't understand why MS still do not make Visio accessible through consumer MS 365 plans.
@perfectionbox3 жыл бұрын
I remember 24-bit color arriving on the Mac, you could see menu items draw one by one. CPUs were so choked with graphic data.
@SproutyPottedPlant4 жыл бұрын
When they moved to another guest the previous one looks like they had to be very still!
@johncortez15994 жыл бұрын
I thought this also!
@Huguillon4 жыл бұрын
They are browsing the web
@Odilwerk3 жыл бұрын
No, he's smashing Tie Fighter. These really were glorious times.
@sanderc253 жыл бұрын
Even when that guy was talking it looks like he had to be very still haha
@jasondashney11 ай бұрын
It's so interesting hearing this guy have to explain things like copy and paste, or clicking on some thing that automatically opens its program, etc. All of these things are so ubiquitous you forget they actually had a start.
@ian_b4 жыл бұрын
I totally miss wrangling IRQs and DMAs.
@cobaltblue19754 жыл бұрын
LOL, I distinctly remember working for a chain of computer stores in Chicago named Elek Tek. So many Creative Lab multimedia kits, and so many Compaq computers with literally one IRQ left. Good times and fond memories. Watching this really took me back.
@tabcreedence65534 жыл бұрын
Yes and those lovely rs-232 ports
@Bruno-Guitarist4 жыл бұрын
Hahaha thanx for reminding me. Jeeez....
@ian_b4 жыл бұрын
@@tabcreedence6553 I've got two USB RS232s plugged into my machine :D
@toastedjoe10133 жыл бұрын
@@cobaltblue1975 I had the first Creative Lab multimedia kit. It was an add-on for my 386DX-33. Single speed CD-Rom and discs you had to put in a caddy. There was a parrot app that let you speak into a microphone and the parrot would repeat the words back.
@fragglet Жыл бұрын
Aww they even gave a couple of minutes to OS/2 to keep the fans happy. Bless.
@sentino683 жыл бұрын
10:57 I wanted to see the Star Wars game Windows guy loaded! I think he was playing it while the other guy was talking to the boring Norton utilities rep.
@changkwangoh4 жыл бұрын
I bought a Windows 95 comp back in the day from BB for $1399.99 with monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and printer. It worked really well! Then in 1996 I joined a local ISP, and went online for the first time. I want that comp back lol
@erich19983 жыл бұрын
"Dial up to the internet" - Kids today will never know the struggle.
@insanecuckooman83423 жыл бұрын
or what is an internet cafe
@szymongrabarczyk35613 жыл бұрын
or how you struggle with finding the right inf driver file for 56k modem despite 95 was advertising "plug and play" at the time.
@user78973 жыл бұрын
Anyone remembers NetZero? or the term DUNer?
@szymongrabarczyk35613 жыл бұрын
@@user7897 tgis is turning into southpark memberberies episode.
@weaponofmassconstruction19403 жыл бұрын
There's a website that emulates the internet as if you had a 56k modem! It's so much fun 👍
@uamade Жыл бұрын
It's crazy to think that in 1994 built-in apps on Windows 95 were starting way faster than in 2023 on Windows 11.
@dickiegreenleaf750 Жыл бұрын
I'm happy I was of age in this era to remember very well at 20. I want the 90's back.
@tundraportal3 жыл бұрын
0:46, the intro music feels nostalgic to me even though I never watched this growing up
@creatorsremose4 жыл бұрын
3:40 Don't worry Claire, even today people are still having trouble explaining how a Mac is better.
@nickwallette62014 жыл бұрын
No need. Just try one and you'll get it. :-)
@mbray103 жыл бұрын
@KoivuTheHab It looks like one button, but if you right click a mac mouse, it will bring up a right click dialog
@mbray103 жыл бұрын
@KoivuTheHab Lol, i know where youre going with this. Mechanically the original mice had one button, BUT if you held control and click, there is a right click. Im old enough to know that ;) 33
@everythingiswhat9 ай бұрын
“There’s no DOS sitting under Windows 95?” Ummmm…
@Michaluis84Ай бұрын
Yeah, right?
@UncleKennysPlace4 жыл бұрын
In the day, OS/2 Warp was head and shoulders over any other GUI, with a solid operating system behind it. I ran it on my fastest machine.
@gordonblank6845 Жыл бұрын
It was a fun time. I built a Dial up service in rural Arizona and we had just over 400 subscribers. Things were so different than today.
@DeusExAstra Жыл бұрын
Win95 was such a big improvement over Win 3.11. It also set the stage for all future Windows versions and how they function to this date.
@ShamrockParticle Жыл бұрын
Win NT 3.5x and 4 [even with moving the GUI out of ring 0 into ring 3) was so much better than Win9x. It wasn't as flashy as OS/2, but it was tons more stable and faster...)
@oisiaa Жыл бұрын
There is so much nostalgia in these videos! Good times to be alive back then!
@yw19714 жыл бұрын
11:40 - The beginning of the fall of Norton Utilities - from their greatness in Dos to the absolute unusfullness in Win 95 & 98. Great job Symentec (just as they destroied Partition Magic)
@iovie Жыл бұрын
Windows was the greatest creation of the personal computer age; a GUI that flexible and functional enough to make computer programs accessible to everyone, while not being too abstract as it still allowed an entire generation get an idea as to the underlying principles of computers and programming.
@robbhays80777 жыл бұрын
8:29 - He has TIE Fighter installed. Good man.
@rickylovesyou4 жыл бұрын
F I LOVED that game..
@miles23784 жыл бұрын
Did anyone freak out the first time using TIE fighter and it defaulted to the highest graphics seting and the picture was all jumbaled up I did.
@FDCAFOK Жыл бұрын
I remember going out and buying Win95 to upgrade from Windows 3.1. What a great time.
@willynebula6193 Жыл бұрын
Was it the CD version or the one that had, 15? Floppy disks in the box? Heh, remember when software had a box. Good times.
@martijnvanzanen40757 жыл бұрын
When TV was interesting.
@nickwallette62014 жыл бұрын
To be fair, this was PBS...
@videoeditor9104 Жыл бұрын
Being a software engineer back then must of been so dope!!!
@Dan-di9jd Жыл бұрын
Yeah it was a little fun building programs at the time but it's no where near like today. You had to figure everything out yourself and usually you had a huge library of books that you had to read. These games at the time had to really use assembly and high level languages usually assembly and C mixed together to build out the final game.
@cyberguy20259 ай бұрын
I know I am a few years late on this but I just subscribed to this channel, and oh-my how the memories flood in lol, I miss these days, a lot better times than we have now,I always smile when I see videos like these. I don't use windows anymore, I am A linux user, as a matter of fact I am on arch using xmonad window manager. I have been looking for a youtube channel that shows off linux back in the day as well.
@3styler14 жыл бұрын
the glory days of PC such a big difference around this time from using DOS and windows 3.1
@TheDexterFishbourne3 ай бұрын
Was at the Incredible Universe in Garland/Dallas, Texas for the midnight release party...... still a vivid memory of mine from when I was 17 years old.
@christophersilverberg36417 жыл бұрын
What a difference from the 1990 chronicles episode about Windows 3.0! Gone are the chairs, the presenter's suit and tie, the flamboyant 1980ies clothes for his guests and the general stilted awkwardness or shyness.
@spearPYN5 жыл бұрын
juanpax64 The 90s was the era of baggy jeans here in the US.
@NB_NB_NB Жыл бұрын
Watching this, I am a teenager again. Thank you
@D-One4 жыл бұрын
Ahhh Auto-Play to automatically spread viruses.. the good ol days.
@cryogeneric4 жыл бұрын
Thought the same thing, lol.
@dukenukem57684 жыл бұрын
Embarasing too, if you accidentally put in your pr0n CD at work instead of your PowerPoint presentation.
@D-One4 жыл бұрын
@@dukenukem5768 Damn, never went thru that, just had a fear of everyone elses thumb drives. Nowadways i do have to be carefull with what i type in the search bar due to history remembering all the porn hahah
@nickwallette62014 жыл бұрын
It was definitely a more innocent time back then.
@TonyRule3 жыл бұрын
@@D-One CTRL+SHIFT+N
@TombstoneChris4 жыл бұрын
Man I miss these days so much and I'll never get getting my first computer and 94 with Windows 3.1. and I think AOL 2.0. and I was introduced to the world wide web and man I can't believe that we now have internet in our pockets that we carry around. I don't know it was more fun to be on computers back then but now you don't even really need one. And I wish they would take these episodes and remaster them in HD 1080p quality.
@AIex_Kidd3 жыл бұрын
Host: bla bla bla bla? Microsoft guy: EXACTLY
@andregarcia33553 жыл бұрын
Correct!
@denisbbb2183 жыл бұрын
Exaaaaklyyy.
@oksyar Жыл бұрын
Windows 95 was the real milestone they achieved in operating system, we almost use that same interface today in 2023
@4Leka3 жыл бұрын
That useless Norton bloatware though. 😂
@AgeingBoyPsychic4 жыл бұрын
I have never seen someone quite so enthusiastic about windows 95
@xashif2 ай бұрын
OMG can't belive what we have done in the past. Purely NOSTALGIA
@teltri7 жыл бұрын
"Real men don´t use mice." Real men use *cats."
@weaponofmassconstruction19403 жыл бұрын
I use a rat.
@emanatingf4 жыл бұрын
These descriptions of the Programs genuinely sound Awesome. Vizio was onto something
@jessejames586 Жыл бұрын
I used to love going to computer shows back then.
@tom76017 жыл бұрын
OLD joke warning: Bill Gates said, "If I had a penny for every time Windows 95 locked up or crashed. Oh, wait!"
@mrkitty7774 жыл бұрын
It did crash a lot, really a lot.
@mrkitty7774 жыл бұрын
@steven cellugi I miss the good old Windows Vista, by holding Windows Key and R key one could crash it with 1 hand. 😭
@mrkitty7774 жыл бұрын
Don't let Bill Gates his haircut fool you. 🤔
@mrkitty7774 жыл бұрын
Windows 9x and 1,2 and 3 allowed direct access to the hardware so it could continue to run older software. This might have been a cause that made it crash.
@SergeRibalchenko4 жыл бұрын
@steven cellugi nope, hardware was more reliable than today, and windows has had pure software errors. Lots of them. It was fun to send specifically arranged packet over the local network to your boss computer and see how he became mad =)
@TheSteveSteele3 жыл бұрын
I remember people camping out in front of computer stores the day before Win 95 was released. Those were tough times for us Mac users. Windows looked like it had caught up. Not quite but the Mac became a much tougher sell until OS X.
@jasondashney Жыл бұрын
Dammit, now I'm going to jump down a rabbit hole to try and remember OS 9x vs Xx. Thanks a lot, haha.
@NortelGeek4 жыл бұрын
20:26 ... Business in the front, party in the back!
@bobbylow1754 жыл бұрын
KeyStroke the mullet what a classic.
@TonyRule3 жыл бұрын
This takes me back. I was using the OS/2 Warp bootloader to run Windows 95, OS/2 Warp and DOS 6.22. Lots of tweaking and tinkering.
@fitfogey Жыл бұрын
Windows 95 was truly a breakthrough.
@michaelerwin87447 жыл бұрын
The autoran is perfect vehicle for distributing malwares. Good old days.
@skullkidn644 жыл бұрын
This was a sad year and even sadder because Gary Kildall passed away in 1994 and I don't think he was alive to witness the release of Windows 95, So sad to see that he still passed away at a young age (Age 52)
@judgewest20007 жыл бұрын
i remember windows 95 coming out, was just so exciting! and the whole time the REAL operating system, NT4 got almost no press, and yet just bubbled up and took over the world
@mrkitty7774 жыл бұрын
NT4 required too expensive computers for consumers.
@BlownMacTruck4 жыл бұрын
NT4 was huge and got tons of press. It however was not aimed at consumers at all. In that context Your comment is weird and nonsensical.
@Trance884 жыл бұрын
It's so weird to see things that are so commonplace today as new, revolutionary, and fascinating back then.
@JohnStopman7 жыл бұрын
I remember using W95 on a Pentium 1 @ 90Mhz with 8+16MB EDO RAM and a 1.2GB HDD in 1997: I used it to go on the web (2M cable) ^_^
@lucius19764 жыл бұрын
Had similar configuration, but i bought it with dos + win 3.11. Switched to Win95 later. Seemed a step back stability wise.
@ekojar3047 Жыл бұрын
This right here is what makes windows so good and easy to use. It all really started here to me.
@daehawk95857 жыл бұрын
He was going to run Tie Fighter!!
@matthewrichardson8287 жыл бұрын
that right-mouse button capability is amazing.
@alpha3836 Жыл бұрын
This really was the golden era of computers.
@Виктор-э1ы6с Жыл бұрын
Exaaactly!
@leongt19544 жыл бұрын
I remember the first time I booted my 486 PC with windows 95 on it from a Dos 6.2 and windows 3.1 system it was like WOW
@mrbrad46374 жыл бұрын
Yes, i can remember the same, it was a defining moment in computing for me, much like the day I discovered GEOS on our commodore 64 as a child in the late 80s along with the release of DOOM.
@oubrioko3 жыл бұрын
*Stewart:* So with Windows 95, my system is vulnerable to a whole new breed of computer viruses? *Microsoft guy:* _Exactly_
@brianx1058 жыл бұрын
i have posted this in 1994 on a 386sx 16 mhz did this arrive yet?
@GuilleArgies Жыл бұрын
old beautiful days... i really miss 90s and early 2000s.
@Cryotek3 жыл бұрын
The previous guest just stands in the background
@bhbluebird Жыл бұрын
I was going to business school at night in 1994 Windows 95 ability to drag, drop, multiple windows etc., was a huge game changer after using Word Perfect and Lotus
@letsbuildseries3 жыл бұрын
I remember these days and when I quit school to be a programmer in high school.
@liberator487 жыл бұрын
I'm telling you this here Windows 95 is the future!
@NoirHammer3 жыл бұрын
I got my first PC from Cybermax with Windows 95 installed. No AOL just Netscape and loads of fun.
@otto161219704 жыл бұрын
So, draging and dropping files to the printer icon will save tons of time. Will try it tomorrow...
@vinnieboombatzmd3508 Жыл бұрын
The late 80's to early 90's were such a cool time to be a computer geek. I was a PC guy from the beginning.
@felipeoliveira8953 жыл бұрын
One of the items in the Inbox: "BIG FILE!"; and the file size: 281 KB.