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ah, the days when an OS was for running programs instead of selling subscriptions..

Brings back memories of CD-ROM and Myst.

Installing this from stacks of 3.5" floppy disks was tedious.

And it only took 25 floppy discs to install. I don't even know how much windows weighs these days.

and the world was never better after that.

no tcp/ip stack and had to use novell network cards ...

I will 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 get over the trauma of every call to Microsoft support during that era beginning with, "Uninstall and re-install Windows 95".

I got it to run pretty good aside from arguing over modem drivers... This was also the era the internet got noticed by millions of people. You could talk to folks in other countries ! This was HUGE. It still is.

How sweet Windows 95 was. User friendly, a little wonky but better than anything else. There are times when using Windows 11, I am nostalgic for 95, it didn’t force me to execute 3 different things for what used to take one click.

How the world has changed, UK, we had stores open at midnight, so people could get their fix of MS mayhem, nowadays, barely a ripple for W11

"consolidated the mess of PnP initiatives and made it much easier for vendors to write protected mode drivers." But that didn't actually happen until years later. Win98SE was the pinnacle of that era b/c by that time vendors moved to PCI or fixed their PnP.

Compared to the BIOS IRQ juggling and CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT memory and drivers shuffling we had to do before, W95 pnp was almost magic.

Assuming you remembered to defrag.

Windows 95 was not an operating system.... It was a graphical user interface running on top of DOS

For the time, it was a pretty good OS! I wish the corp I worked for upgraded to it instead of sticking with Windows 3.1 and then moving to Windows NT. (To be fair, Solaris was better!) However, towards the end of the 90's and into the "oughts", it started to show how shaky its underpinnings were.

I have an unopened copy of 1.44 mb floppy disks for sale

That's why I chose an Apple computer.

And it's been straight fucking downhill since.

I’m going to need Chandler and Rachel to show me how to use this.

Which, in turn, was stolen from Xerox.

i understood this reference

My childhood is that screensaver and minesweeper.

I downloaded a virus to my PC that allowed me to use the 3D maze screensaver and still have it to this day 👍

I miss the old screensavers

I love that the default screen saver looks like every Dungeon Master-esque video game of the 90’s.

Windows 95 Screensaver – 3D Maze youtu.be/aYP1gRaPn8c

Unofficial Windows 95 website in 1996 www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/wind...

Can we like ...go back to this format. I'm tired of everything looking like a video game app.

What a day that was! I was the first one at work to get one. Memories .... when we got to Windows 98, I was living the dream! Lol!

The saddest moment in history: when dumb people got easy access to very sophisticated technology.

Good times...

And world wide it’s being dumped

Brian Eno, best known for his experimental works and collaborations with David Bowie, composed the infamous startup sound for Windows 95. Eno’s composition came after Microsoft designers approached the iconic producer for their OS project in 1994.

I upgraded for my new 486 PC, moved from a laptop to a tower. Three years later I moved to the IOS platform with an I-Mac. Haven’t ever looked back

And I was there Jay Leno did comedy Still have my guest badge around somewhere

I started on Windows 4.1

oh, those were the days...

OS/2

I suddenly feel like playing Wolfenstein 3D

I tell my kids that screensaver was Doom.

A day which will live in infamy...

Coincidentally it’s also the last time windows was good.

Netscape! ❤️

But hey, Minesweeper!

Still own a complete set of install discs from my childhood.

That was a big step up in capabilites.

Anyway Now Days I run Linux & my ATARI 1040ST still works perfect after all these years en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_ST

Going from MS-DOS to this back in the day was like grabbing a part for your car that could make it run on water and fly. At least that's how it seemed to 8 year old me who only used the computer for video games.

Damn! That brings back a chunk of PC memories.

This was a nostalgia hit. woof.

For any faults it may have had, I was a first day adopter! Installed Win 95 and never looked back.

Stay SAFE... Don't use USA Software... The USA is a Rogue Nation... Buyer Beware. Release the Epstein Files.

Skipped this one and the rest. Always used macs.

And on June 25, 1998, they finally got it right.

And then in the summer of '00 I installed it on my first homebuilt computer....

Only took Microsoft 11 years to copy Apple's MacIntosh with its windows that came out in 1984.

I was hoping someone would post this

June 1995 and just finishing Year 10 I was sent on work experience in the IT department of a local (but global) company and was allowed to play with a Beta copy of Win 95

Looks just like Windows 11

I liked the special Windows 95 edition with USB support that always crashed whenever you unplugged a USB device. 👍

Loved the commercial with the Rolling Stones. youtu.be/wRdl1BjTG7c?...

Hilarious TY very nice for a memory reboot but id never go back to windows now Linux protects my personal data and I still own my PC and the OS with thousands of free apps and in most cases better apps than windows equivalent

And it's been mostly downhill since then. 🤨 I have a perfectly good laptop, with lots of storage and lots of memory, running Win 10, but M$ refuses to upgrade me to Win 11 (although I wouldn't upgrade even if I could). 🤬 I wonder what backroom deals M$ has made with hardware vendors. 🤔 [==*==]

Where the system.ini file go? I printed out the registry.

And how many subscriptions, ads or sign in Did it require to use it? Maybe we should all go back to you and Windows 95.

Reminds me, I should update to 98.

Now there’s a hoopy frood who knows where their towel is!

This one ? Still have it.

I still miss Windows NT…

Cheap, low-grade knockoff of the Mac.

happy 25th anniversary to this classic