I dunno, I’d ask your wife to be sure, since she seems to remember the event better than you do (wives usually do remember weddings more completely than husbands do). I could be wrong, but I don’t think most young people of the 90s were turned on to Weezer by the Windows 95 installation CD. I very well remember when that disc arrived in my mail. My own personal reaction to it was not “wow, what a cool new song” but instead “WOW! They put Weezer’s ‘Buddy Holly’ video on here!” I bet you guys loved Weezer even when you used Windows for Workgroups, 😜!
Windows Server 2003 had No Hay Problema by Pink Martini as the 'title.wma' or OOBE background music, but as Server 2003 never had any OOBE then it falls unused
I remember that, excellent! Also Beck's Beautiful Way in WM7... but just a 20-second snippet or so, bummer... In Windows Vista there was The Posies' Love Comes. All in all, it must be said that they made excellent music choices... Even going back to canyon.mid!
Home schooled as well. However, I just thought it was part of a Happy Days episode and Weezer was a throwback band from the time. Didn't find out until later that it was all just clever editing and Weezer was current.
Wow I was talking about this with my sister. I sent her Weezer" buddy holly" and she was like, "remember the demo disk that came with our win 95' hp pc?! Lol I could talk for hours about what was on that disk
There was a capture the flag game on it. There was also a disk that presented a different userface than windows 95. You could link books on a shelf in a virtual library to link a program that you would like to launch.
I remember when I found this myself back in the day, I thought I had found a huge secret or something. I was so proud of myself. I also remember not being too surprised that it was there because the 90's were just kind of awesome like that.
Yep, playing Weezer as a video and audio test was standard procedure at the shops I worked at back then when we built or upgraded computer. You'd hear it at least several times a day.
Wow, didn't expected a much deeper reason than a contract for promotion and money. Putting it hidden in the CD was a much better solution than throwing it at the face of everyone like Apple and U2 did years later.
@@ZipplyZane My younger sisters and I just used the Windows 95 PC to decorate our own virtual rooms with Microsoft Bob. Never would have found this thing
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 And that last part is why I guess some people consider it "hidden." It does seem odd to us today that they would not have made a huge deal on the autoplay about it. But, as I said, I think they wanted to encourage people to use the new Windows Explorer.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 I didn't mean having it automatically play as soon as you put the disc in. I just meant listing it on the popup that autoplays. Instead, if I remember correctly, there was a link to explore the disc. When you did, you'd see a bunch of boring files, but also a folder called FUNSTUFF. And so, being curious, you'd click on it, and find games, videos, etc.
Man, this was really nostalgic. I was 14 when I got Windows 95 and I played that video over and over. It was actually my introduction to Weezer. I played the Rob Roy trailer that came with Windows 95 a lot too. I had zero interest in watching that movie but it was so exciting and novel to have videos playing on my computer that it didn't even matter. Great video. The whole thing really took me back.
90s Windows marketing has been my pet obsession lately, it was such a crazy thing, with so many fond memories attached to it as a young burgeoning computer nerd.
I still remember watching both music videos quite a few times as I could not believe I had a machine that could play them at will without inserting any kind of media. They were just there. They were good tunes as well, so that was a bonus :)
I was selling computers then, and it was amazing to see full-screened video of that quality (HighPerf) playing on some of the better PCs we had for sale. Was useful for showing the difference a processor and videocard could make for video playback, and that included Hover game. Thanks for the dive into the subject. I was always curious.
Ahh i remember...Such memories of finding this and having no clue what it was aged 12. Thinking it was just an actual old music video from happy days. I had no clue who weezer were at the time.
I just ran into this issue today. I was playing my music on shuffle when all the sudden I heard some really wussy music I’d never put on my phone. Oh yeah, it was U2. Well fuck you too, U2! 👎
I was there when win95 came out. I had been writing games for popular systems like the Vic2- and the IBM PC. The joke about Plug and Play was that we called it "Plug and pray". Because it worked about a third of the time. Good reporting!
That video instantly transports me back to my grandparent's house, sitting in my grandpa's office, on a wooden chair, just playing with and exploring everything on that new PC he got. Like, I even remember the smell of the warm plastic from the tower, the lighting, everything. I love it. :)
Many millions figured out how to type "win" at the DOS prompt and enjoy a reasonably advanced GUI in Win 3.1, sitting rather clumsily "on top" of DOS as it was - many more millions than used a Mac, it was massively successful, an effing sensation, were you using PCs back then? - it's not like we had to wait for Win 95 for PC users to get a GUI. You kind of minimized its relevance to make your case. But yeah, Win 95 took this to the next level. The "start button" was genius because it made the very first step dead obvious, more so than a Mac even. And the "right click" too was such a powerful shortcut. Jobs was so laughably stubborn to pretend it wasn't. Good video though! Liked and subscribed.
I've still got that Win95 beta CD that first came with the Weezer video. I had been asked to beta test their PowerStation Fortran (some silly name like that for their Fortran compiler) app, which required official current Win95 beta to run - but hadn't been on the Win95 official beta tester program (although I *cough* maybe had been running various betas for over a year already *cough*). I sent them an e-mail and promptly received the beta tester kit - woot. My first PC I used it on could play the video but some frames skipped due to the CD-ROM buffer not being quite large enough. It was the perfect sample file to include to test out to see if somebody's machine could handle multimedia, back in the era where you often bought a CD-ROM and sound card bundle kit (IDE based drives were out by then I think, but tons of legacy Creative hardware used a controller on the sound card, and not all had the same performance).
Ohhh, yeah. Trying to play those through an ISA multi-IO card that only supported PIO-1 IDE speed. Or how about the early 4x CD-ROM drives that just could not slow down when connected to an early IDE controller? They'd rev up to top speed, toss a huge slug of data then drop to idle while the controller tried to pass the data through, then the transfer would timeout and stop.
@@greggv8 yeah that was an interesting era for sure - I had built myself a Cyrix or AMD box which was equivalent to a mid range Pentium but even then, trying to burn CD-ROMs was always an interesting experience. I had a lot more RAM than most users realize you could even have (I had 192 MB in one box in that era when the typical user had 32 or less) which definitely helped, but we (college neighbors and I) were the proud owners of a Yamaha quad speed burner; this when single speed burners were still shockingly rare, we ubergeeks said screw it and got the pro model. At the time, blank discs were $12 a pop, although they went down to $8 a pop by the end of the school year. This is why we kept those early coasters, as we had an investment in them - they were the reminder of what happens when the write buffer runs empty mid-burn; and something that luckily quickly became a thing of the past - however for that time, when you wanted to burn a disc, it was common to shut down all sorts of Windoze services, antivirus and anything that could possibly want to write to the hard disk at the wrong time. :P
On the OSR 2 CD, the standard AVI files were removed, it only has the highperf ones. But, it includes the two music videos in MPEG-1 VCD format too. I had a 486 PC that could only play the MPEG files as a slideshow.
I remember getting our first windows pc and finding this video. I thought it was dope. Fast forward 15 years or so my girlfriend and I was on a Weezer cruise. This cruise was very cool by the way. But I’ve told my girlfriend a few times of my first experience with Weezer was on my first Windows PC. She’s obsessed with Weezer, that’s why we were on the cruise. Halfway through the cruise they had a Q&A on the top deck and this subject came up. They told the story and it filled the hole that I didn’t know I had burning inside me. Your video of course provided the details on Microsoft’s side that I didn’t know till now. Love your channel!!! Keep it up!!!
I think that was the only video on my Win 95 PC - I don't remember Weezer being on it. Maybe I was too young and my dad kept listening to Good Times over and over? Or maybe in Poland they didn't have the license for it.
Having already been a huge Weezer fan and a fan of computers when I first found this on Windows 95 it was mind blowing. Always wondered why it was on there. Played it over and over as I no longer had to wait for MTV to play it... Actually MTV played it constantly.
I remember that I rather used my Amiga 2000 and 1200 for a long time since PC's back then was so far behind on many levels. I could not grasp why I would have to buy a separate graphics card and sound card in order to get somewhat halfdecent graphics or sound. With the Amiga we already had all that, we had a really great GUI and a function to put programs into and execute from RAM. That was awesome. 😃
I will never question the power of a website banner ad. I just listened to the soundtrack to Beavis and Butt-Head Do America because I saw an ad for it on an almost 30 year old image of the Geffen records website. The album still rocks.
The irony of it is that these videos also run perfectly well on Windows 3.1! I remember playing 'Goodtimes' a lot. I’ve still yet to watch 'Robroy' in full though.
I love seeing early 90s technology stuff when they’re having that weird bridge between “big-glasses goobers are the tech nerds” to “everyone in the world kinda needs that tech and suddenly it’s cool as heck” Like all those polo wearing nerds dancing on the stage would normally be cringe as shit but then you see the surprisingly huge audience watching them do so
Your videos are so well researched and presented. Channels like this have made youtube so awesome to watch. When I was younger I wouldn't question why things are like they are. Weezer on my Win95 install CD. Meh, that's just how it is... Now you point it out, it's very strange and intriguing. 24mins just flew by, very entertaining, thank you!
I was a bit older, though still in school. The video responsible was in DOS games The 7th Guest and Under A Killing Moon. The latter ended up a particular favourite. I consider it one of the best adventure games ever made.
Yeah Windows 95 was definitely considered ground breaking at the time. There's a reason that the UI it started has been iterated on for other versions of Windows to this day. Sure, Apple had some of the stuff, but not all of it. In particular, it didn't have the hierarchical Start Menu or taskbar. It didn't make it automatic to put shortcuts on the desktop. And, most importantly, it didn't have proper multitasking. Everything still ran in the same memory space, meaning a problem with a single program would take down the whole system. System 7 still used cooperative multitasking used in Windows 3.1, where the programs had to be designed to let other apps work.
yep and windows can't remove the start menu now, everyone is so used to it. win3.1 gui was so chunky. desktop was the other thing, having a place you could just dump everything.
This was the first time I'd ever seen live video on a computer before. We had upgraded our Tandy 1000 to an Acer w/ the 75mhz Pentium and it came (a couple months later) with the Windows 95 disks. Still remember that moment.
I have Weezer's "Buddy Holly" (self-titled album) and Edie Brickell's "Good Times" ( _Picture Perfect Morning_ ) on my Win 95 CD, which I still have around somewhere. (1:01) I forgot about _Rob Roy._ Multimedia kits and promos were still a thing then. Good times, indeed.
15 minutes in, and 2 different plugs for some spammy “sponsor”, the weezer song was put on the OS because they wanted to show off the trendy and fun new operating system that plays videos and stuff
@@JosephByrne creators don't get anything out of your decision to pay for premium. Premium money only goes to google and is an excuse for them to not overload you with their ads. If you want to give creators money through youtube, the channel memberships is the only way to go
I was a teenager when Win 95 launched, and a huge computer nerd. It was so exciting. I don't know if I've ever been through a product launch since that carried that kind of energy. I had been reading about it in PC World and PC Computing for months, and had a beta copy I downloaded from a BBS. I definitely navigated all around the CD, found the Fun Stuff folder, and clips therein. A friend of mine came over and we watched the Rob Roy trailer, and went out and rented it that night. Good movie!
i remember that some times when i felt exhausted and tired from life, i started the video in the little window, and it was so smoothing to see that computers can now play video, so bright future has finally come :)
This completely ruined my childhood idea that it was on there as Bill Gates really liked it and wanted to share it. Glad to finally know the real story!
You have your timeline a little out. Windows 95 wasn't really "internet ready" out of the box, since you had to buy the Plus! add-on pack to enable that. It only came built into the OS with later versions. I was working at a computer shop just after the Windows 95 release and we used the Weezer video to test the audio and video on newly built PCs.
Yeah, but it was quite common early on for the Plus! pack to be integrated in, especially on new computers. He does at least mention the Internet Explorer required the Plus! pack.
Pretty amazing to realize I was already using icons and such from 1985 onwards with the Amiga. :) The only time I used a command-line was on the beloved 8-bit computers. And yes, cyber-cafe's, those were such fun... when the Internet was still... just fun and interesting. Man, such a shame we live in a time where tech is awesome, yet all the comm things suck big time.
Man, this brought back some memories... nerdy as it sounds, I adored that Windows 95 promo video with the wind blowing away poor old Win 3.1 and replacing it with the clouds of Windows 95. The tune was really catchy! "On fi-yuh! On fi-yeh, fire!"
In '91-'92, one of the computers in the school I attended demonstrated the playing an early MP3 sample file of "Start It Up" by the Rolling Stones from it's hard drive in MS-DOS. A bit ironic, in light of Microsoft's use of it in their introductory ad for Windows '95.
I used to work at a parts-repair/testing place way back in the day. We used to use a Win95 CD and the weezer video as a test file for test CD Drives. I've heard the first 20 seconds of this video THOUSANDS of times! Crazy times.
Oh man, I remember stumbling on these on my friend's dad's PC in the living room. It was summer of 96 and we were looking up Sailor Moon stuff. He heard the video playing and got pissed because he thought we somehow managed to download something of that size back then! I showed him where they were located and he was like, "Oh...ok then" and went back to smoking his bowl. Good times.
I remember bring at the launch of Windows 95 in my city. They'd rented a huge expo space and it was full of people, excited to see this new operating system. There were bands playing, giveaways, demos of games and applications... I can't imagine the world being this positively excited and hooked on an operating system in today's day and age. It was a literal event.
Weezer (or their label, rather) were very smart to include this. Everyone wanted to play videos on their computer, after all. It was amazing, it probably wasn't the first time you saw a video on a PC but it was universal, everyone with a PC modern enough to run Windows 95 had this video and the exposure for the band was immense. I''d be surprised if Weezer didn't see a lot more sales for their music out of it, not that they were an unknown band or anything but this got one of their better songs and a pretty cool music video into peoples heads.
Have you seen Dave's Garage channel? He was a developer at windwos then, the author of windows task manager, has some cool inside stories on his channel.
Several years earlier I had to wait 10 mins to download a colour photo of Samantha Fox. LOL! It downloaded 1 horizontal line of pixels at a time. It was probably a 1200 baud modem back then, about 150 bytes per second or 9KB per minute. Talk about anticipation!
Crazy days, convincing your parents not to use the phone while you "legally" downloaded music. For me it was like 15 minutes per song. Video was insane, I remember watching the Phantom Menace trailer, playing the same few seconds over and over again as it took an age to download the whole thing.
@@ProffyChaos I remember terrible quality RealMedia and QuickTime files taking over a day to download just one. I think we were able to use our phone and internet at the same time. I don’t remember how.
Seeing and hearing that song when I did back in the day made a huge impression on me. It's oddly one of my most vivid memories of my childhood. Ps... I wonder why the hell your captions in this video take so many liberties...
Mr. Nerd, do u even comprehend what kind of nostalgic feelings I'm getting watching ALL the extra footage you included even so far as the commercial with the stars from Friends and the MTV VMA acceptance for Weezer's Buddy Holly???! LOVED IT!!! THANKS!!! -Sincerely, Just and old man in his early 40s who lived the 90s as a teen and wish he could go back and relive them again 😫
I worked at a University computer lab at the time. I remember me or a friend finding the Weezer video at some point on the CD. As the this video points out, the video was a year old at that time, and I was in my early 20s, so of course I'd seen it far too many times MTV as it was in maximum rotation. So for me this wasn't like discovering some new hidden gem, more a curiosity. My reaction was more along the lines of "Huh, that's kind of interesting and random that Microsoft put this video on the CD. I wonder how that happened. Kinda cool". But honestly I don't think I thought about it again until 26 years later. Going back and looking at the original AVI I can see why. The quality, even for the "high performance" file is very fuzzy and grainy, and about the quality you might expect from a very noisy, fuzzy TV signal. Audio is pretty good though. There wasn't really much digital video at the time. Quality was low, processors were a bit too slow. These were the days when mp3 was just barely getting started... There were a few mp3s available on FTP sites, but video was.... pretty much non-existent. Remember, even DVD at a gargantuan (at the time) 4.7 gigabytes didn't come out until 1996! Computers didn't really get fast enough to compress a video under a gigabyte until maybe the late 90s. The first movie I downloaded was in 1999, off of Napster. So from a technical perspective including this video on Windows 95 was a genius idea. It showed what was then possible. The other thing I'd point out is that Windows 95 was the first "modern" Windows operating system that was designed from the get-go to run more than one program at the same time instead of it being shoe-horned in like it was in Windows 3.1, or MacOS through 8. Windows 3.1 suffered from horrible crash and lockup problems, primarily because any program could write to any memory location it wanted (the memory space was shared among the whole OS in 16 bit mode), and each program had to yield to others. MacOS had similar problems. Remember the great bomb icon? So any program that was buggy could lock up the whole system. Windows 95 (when used with 32 bit programs) solved both these problems by creating a separate memory space for every program, as well as putting in pre-emptive multi-tasking, so any buggy program couldn't lock up the whole computer since the OS was in control of tasks. Windows 95 really was "a big deal". So the claims of Apple that Windows 95 were just "MacOS 7" were completely ridiculous. It took Apple another 6 years to release OS-X, which finally had the protected memory, and pre-emptive multi-tasking that Windows had in 1995.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 The branding came many years before DR-DOS came on the scene. The original deal to supply the OS for the IBM PC branded as PC-DOS. Microsoft retained the right to sell the nearly identical MS-DOS. IBM believed this wasn't worth all that much because the copyrighted BIOS of the PC was critical to having software run as is. This worked for a while. Machines like the TI Pro and the Tandy 2000 ran MS-DOS but needed software specific to them. A developer could use most of the code that went into an IBM PC version but whether a particular machine merited the work for its own version of a program, especially when this meant sinking capital into manufacturing the separate discs, and dealing with the hassles of maintaining multiple versions. These machines were often a fair bit nicer than the IBM PC, especially in the area of graphics. But that also meant getting the most out of them meant a lot of extra work as opposed to a port done in less than a week. So, while those machine brought in a lot of revenue for Microsoft, they didn't get much of the market. When Compaq legally cloned the PC BIOS to make machines that ran off the shelf IBM PC software, followed by a clone BIOS becoming available for anyone looking to make IBM PC compatible systems, that changed the game entirely. (Compaq wasn't the first to market but they were the one who got the most stuff right, both in the BIOS and other aspects like marketing, so they became the big name in IBM clones.) It was at that point IBM regretted not paying Microsoft more and taking full ownership of PC-DOS, including derivative versions. Digital Research lost out on the original base OS for the IBM PC because Dorothy Kildall, the wife of founder Gary Kildall and a savvy attorney, looked at the contract IBM proposed and came back with a long list of objections and changes. IBM thought they were taking advantage of Microsoft's comparative youth and hunger, even though Gates didn't lack for serious legal advice either, as his father was fairly well known in the WA law business. The real difference was the perception of where small computers were heading as a business and that it was worthwhile to make some sacrifice initially to get an advantageous position. It went against the grain for DR, who were then a big fish in the small pond of microcomputers, to put up with IBM's snobbery.
This is one of my favorite songs of all time.I remember this being on my uncle's computer back in the day and thought he downloaded it. I'm excited to learn about this.
As a teenager in the mid 90s, THIS WAS THE COOLEST THING.
My wife has just reminded me that we had Weezer's Buddy Holly played at our wedding. I guess we owe that to... Windows 95 then.. life is weird.
I dunno, I’d ask your wife to be sure, since she seems to remember the event better than you do (wives usually do remember weddings more completely than husbands do). I could be wrong, but I don’t think most young people of the 90s were turned on to Weezer by the Windows 95 installation CD.
I very well remember when that disc arrived in my mail. My own personal reaction to it was not “wow, what a cool new song” but instead “WOW! They put Weezer’s ‘Buddy Holly’ video on here!”
I bet you guys loved Weezer even when you used Windows for Workgroups, 😜!
you may now kiss the bride!! (whats with these homies dissing my girl)
By would you owe that to windows 95? That song was very popular at the time when it came out around the time of windows 95s release.
I remember "Like Humans Do" by David Byrne being on Windows XP.
yep, only in RTM / WMP8 and removed in SP1 / WMP9 for some reason.
Windows Server 2003 had No Hay Problema by Pink Martini as the 'title.wma' or OOBE background music, but as Server 2003 never had any OOBE then it falls unused
I looked this up the second I started this video.
I remember that, excellent! Also Beck's Beautiful Way in WM7... but just a 20-second snippet or so, bummer... In Windows Vista there was The Posies' Love Comes. All in all, it must be said that they made excellent music choices... Even going back to canyon.mid!
Also Standin' in the Rain by Lil Dave Thompson and Dynamite Walls by Hayden (one of my all time favorite songs)
Being a home schooled shut-in, it took me well over a decade to figure out that Weezer hadn't been around since the 50s.
I didn't know who Weezer was till about 2002, but I was a shut in that watched Nick at Night and I knew they weren't in Happy Days.
Home schooled as well. However, I just thought it was part of a Happy Days episode and Weezer was a throwback band from the time. Didn't find out until later that it was all just clever editing and Weezer was current.
if it makes you feel any better i wasnt home schooled but didnt know that Happy Days wasn’t from the 50s until fairly recently
Hahahaha fucking SAME
Do you hate your parents now?
Wow I was talking about this with my sister. I sent her Weezer" buddy holly" and she was like, "remember the demo disk that came with our win 95' hp pc?! Lol I could talk for hours about what was on that disk
There was a capture the flag game on it. There was also a disk that presented a different userface than windows 95. You could link books on a shelf in a virtual library to link a program that you would like to launch.
I was about to ask if you played that fun FPS but I forgot that’s what hover was lol I loved 90s
@@GetLostGames1 The capture the flag game was "Hover" and the different user interface sounds like Microsoft "Bob"
the reason why Weezer came with windows 95 is to make us sad 90s kids feel old...
@@olik136 you are the only one that got it right. Ugh.
I remember when I found this myself back in the day, I thought I had found a huge secret or something. I was so proud of myself. I also remember not being too surprised that it was there because the 90's were just kind of awesome like that.
I discovered this by accident when I was like, 16. Always wondered about it.
Same here. Saved up forever to get 4MB of ram to run it. Goodtimes
@@samsungtelevision695 Woah man 4 megabytes? What are you doing here with us peasants?
I came across it many times.
When you were "like" 16? You were 15 or 17, but it was actually like you were 16?
When I was a bench tech in 96-98, weezer was one of my tests to make sure the video looked good.
Yep, playing Weezer as a video and audio test was standard procedure at the shops I worked at back then when we built or upgraded computer. You'd hear it at least several times a day.
Same here, although I switched to the other video after a while.
Yup! I used those videos to see how well (or if) a PC could play video. Most of them at the time were pretty bad at it.
Wild, I was a bench tech from 97-00 and I would use those videos of the CD to test systems that were having CD reading problems.
When in doubt, weezer.avi
Wow, didn't expected a much deeper reason than a contract for promotion and money.
Putting it hidden in the CD was a much better solution than throwing it at the face of everyone like Apple and U2 did years later.
They weren't exactly hiding it. They wanted you to learn how to use Windows Explorer. They told you to check out the CD for fun stuff.
@@ZipplyZane My younger sisters and I just used the Windows 95 PC to decorate our own virtual rooms with Microsoft Bob. Never would have found this thing
It wasn't hidden.....
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 And that last part is why I guess some people consider it "hidden." It does seem odd to us today that they would not have made a huge deal on the autoplay about it.
But, as I said, I think they wanted to encourage people to use the new Windows Explorer.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 I didn't mean having it automatically play as soon as you put the disc in. I just meant listing it on the popup that autoplays.
Instead, if I remember correctly, there was a link to explore the disc. When you did, you'd see a bunch of boring files, but also a folder called FUNSTUFF.
And so, being curious, you'd click on it, and find games, videos, etc.
Man, this was really nostalgic. I was 14 when I got Windows 95 and I played that video over and over. It was actually my introduction to Weezer. I played the Rob Roy trailer that came with Windows 95 a lot too. I had zero interest in watching that movie but it was so exciting and novel to have videos playing on my computer that it didn't even matter. Great video. The whole thing really took me back.
I remember being so blown away when I found this video on a Win95 CD, and until today I had forgotten all about Hover.
Now imagine having a PC so crap it couldn't run Hover at full speed.
Me too!
I played the fuck outta that game
Let's not forget about Robroy also ;)
The "Start Me Up" dance is my second favorite Microsoft stage moment.
Right below "DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!"
I'm amazed you got 24 minutes of solid TH-cam out of Weezer on Windows. Good stuff.
90s Windows marketing has been my pet obsession lately, it was such a crazy thing, with so many fond memories attached to it as a young burgeoning computer nerd.
Windows Me FTW!
Crazy?
@@reinforcedpenisstem Absolutely. Windows 95's launch and marketing changed the game.
I still remember watching both music videos quite a few times as I could not believe I had a machine that could play them at will without inserting any kind of media. They were just there. They were good tunes as well, so that was a bonus :)
I think I played that music video over 100x back in the day.
I was selling computers then, and it was amazing to see full-screened video of that quality (HighPerf) playing on some of the better PCs we had for sale. Was useful for showing the difference a processor and videocard could make for video playback, and that included Hover game.
Thanks for the dive into the subject. I was always curious.
Awwww man, this was my introduction to Weezer. The nostalgia hitting me hard...
Ahh i remember...Such memories of finding this and having no clue what it was aged 12. Thinking it was just an actual old music video from happy days. I had no clue who weezer were at the time.
Reminds me of when every iPhone had some U2 album on it by default and it was impossible to get rid of lol
in 2014
@@RWL2012 so a century ago already?
@@carso1500 pretty much
I don’t use iTunes or Apple Music so the only music on my phone is U2 and everytime I get in my car that album comes on lol.
I just ran into this issue today. I was playing my music on shuffle when all the sudden I heard some really wussy music I’d never put on my phone. Oh yeah, it was U2. Well fuck you too, U2! 👎
I was there when win95 came out. I had been writing games for popular systems like the Vic2- and the IBM PC. The joke about Plug and Play was that we called it "Plug and pray". Because it worked about a third of the time. Good reporting!
Lol, I remember the phrase Plug and Pray! And then my mom would turn it into a racist Chinese joke... Smh.
That video instantly transports me back to my grandparent's house, sitting in my grandpa's office, on a wooden chair, just playing with and exploring everything on that new PC he got. Like, I even remember the smell of the warm plastic from the tower, the lighting, everything. I love it. :)
I remember being so hype as a kid for Win95. I wish I still had that excitement today when a new OS dropped! Awesome video as always, man!
Many millions figured out how to type "win" at the DOS prompt and enjoy a reasonably advanced GUI in Win 3.1, sitting rather clumsily "on top" of DOS as it was - many more millions than used a Mac, it was massively successful, an effing sensation, were you using PCs back then? - it's not like we had to wait for Win 95 for PC users to get a GUI. You kind of minimized its relevance to make your case. But yeah, Win 95 took this to the next level. The "start button" was genius because it made the very first step dead obvious, more so than a Mac even. And the "right click" too was such a powerful shortcut. Jobs was so laughably stubborn to pretend it wasn't.
Good video though! Liked and subscribed.
I want to know more about Windows Beer. It sounds better than Apple Kool-Aid.
Yeah I immediately searched eBay for a can 😅 ...no results yet....
Yeah, but once you drink that Apple koolaid, you can’t use other brands
So the best comment.
Like Windows, it kinda left a bad taste in your mouth
I've still got that Win95 beta CD that first came with the Weezer video. I had been asked to beta test their PowerStation Fortran (some silly name like that for their Fortran compiler) app, which required official current Win95 beta to run - but hadn't been on the Win95 official beta tester program (although I *cough* maybe had been running various betas for over a year already *cough*). I sent them an e-mail and promptly received the beta tester kit - woot.
My first PC I used it on could play the video but some frames skipped due to the CD-ROM buffer not being quite large enough. It was the perfect sample file to include to test out to see if somebody's machine could handle multimedia, back in the era where you often bought a CD-ROM and sound card bundle kit (IDE based drives were out by then I think, but tons of legacy Creative hardware used a controller on the sound card, and not all had the same performance).
Ohhh, yeah. Trying to play those through an ISA multi-IO card that only supported PIO-1 IDE speed. Or how about the early 4x CD-ROM drives that just could not slow down when connected to an early IDE controller? They'd rev up to top speed, toss a huge slug of data then drop to idle while the controller tried to pass the data through, then the transfer would timeout and stop.
@@greggv8 yeah that was an interesting era for sure - I had built myself a Cyrix or AMD box which was equivalent to a mid range Pentium but even then, trying to burn CD-ROMs was always an interesting experience. I had a lot more RAM than most users realize you could even have (I had 192 MB in one box in that era when the typical user had 32 or less) which definitely helped, but we (college neighbors and I) were the proud owners of a Yamaha quad speed burner; this when single speed burners were still shockingly rare, we ubergeeks said screw it and got the pro model. At the time, blank discs were $12 a pop, although they went down to $8 a pop by the end of the school year. This is why we kept those early coasters, as we had an investment in them - they were the reminder of what happens when the write buffer runs empty mid-burn; and something that luckily quickly became a thing of the past - however for that time, when you wanted to burn a disc, it was common to shut down all sorts of Windoze services, antivirus and anything that could possibly want to write to the hard disk at the wrong time. :P
On the OSR 2 CD, the standard AVI files were removed, it only has the highperf ones. But, it includes the two music videos in MPEG-1 VCD format too. I had a 486 PC that could only play the MPEG files as a slideshow.
Aren't avi way bigger than mpeg1? 486 can play 320 res vcds?
@@rustymixer2886 Yes they're bigger because they're not compressed as much. So less CPU power is needed to decompress and play them.
@@steeviebops so were they avi or mpeg1 vcd?
@@rustymixer2886 I just checked again. Only the Edie Brickell video is in the highperf folder on the OSR 2.1 CD. Both are in MPEG in VCD format.
@@steeviebops awesome thx ! Wow vcd format 1995
The funniest thing about "Start me up" was later in the song they repeat "you make a grown man cry". I don't MS thought that out too well LOL
I still remember going with my dad to a school classroom for a preview show of windows 95 before it came out and how incredible it all seemed to us
I remember getting our first windows pc and finding this video. I thought it was dope. Fast forward 15 years or so my girlfriend and I was on a Weezer cruise. This cruise was very cool by the way. But I’ve told my girlfriend a few times of my first experience with Weezer was on my first Windows PC. She’s obsessed with Weezer, that’s why we were on the cruise. Halfway through the cruise they had a Q&A on the top deck and this subject came up. They told the story and it filled the hole that I didn’t know I had burning inside me.
Your video of course provided the details on Microsoft’s side that I didn’t know till now.
Love your channel!!! Keep it up!!!
The "Good Times" video was more synonymous with Win 95 to me for some reason.
I think that was the only video on my Win 95 PC - I don't remember Weezer being on it. Maybe I was too young and my dad kept listening to Good Times over and over? Or maybe in Poland they didn't have the license for it.
Me too, I think that this video has the upgrade CD while a lot of other people "borrowed" the Win-95 full copy which had Good Times.
I remember playing the Edie Brickell video "Good times" a lot myself. Always loved that song.
Having already been a huge Weezer fan and a fan of computers when I first found this on Windows 95 it was mind blowing. Always wondered why it was on there. Played it over and over as I no longer had to wait for MTV to play it... Actually MTV played it constantly.
I miss those days, that's when computers were fun.
Computers Haven't been fun for a long time now.. at least since 15 years now.
The 90's were peak humanity. The world died on 9/11
I remember that I rather used my Amiga 2000 and 1200 for a long time since PC's back then was so far behind on many levels. I could not grasp why I would have to buy a separate graphics card and sound card in order to get somewhat halfdecent graphics or sound. With the Amiga we already had all that, we had a really great GUI and a function to put programs into and execute from RAM. That was awesome. 😃
I will never question the power of a website banner ad. I just listened to the soundtrack to Beavis and Butt-Head Do America because I saw an ad for it on an almost 30 year old image of the Geffen records website. The album still rocks.
I worked in a small computer store when Win95 launched and we had this on loop all day every day for weeks.
Because of the clip for "Buddy Holly" on the Windows disc, my dad thought they were a 60's band.
how awesome since this was a sample clip back in the day.
I really loved this video and the rainy day windshield wiper one.
You are on a roll this week!
Weezer was the only good thing to come with Windows.
The irony of it is that these videos also run perfectly well on Windows 3.1!
I remember playing 'Goodtimes' a lot. I’ve still yet to watch 'Robroy' in full though.
It's an awesome movie, I only saw it years later because of this trailer.
Kids will never know of waiting for the all clear signal to actually power off your pc.
or using the command Park C:
Shutdown -H now - UNIX had power management decades ago!
The lowercase -h is for halt, as in stop, and would park discs, and -H forces shutdown with no further prompting, but does still park the discs!
@@RedPillRachel Yeah, cool story bro.
I got the "Windows - *It is* now safe to turn off your computer." screen on XP on a Pentium II until I found the "fast shutdown" option in BIOS.
I love seeing early 90s technology stuff when they’re having that weird bridge between “big-glasses goobers are the tech nerds” to “everyone in the world kinda needs that tech and suddenly it’s cool as heck”
Like all those polo wearing nerds dancing on the stage would normally be cringe as shit but then you see the surprisingly huge audience watching them do so
"And please, try the fish".
'That's not so good, Al'.
Yea, yea, yea...
Your videos are so well researched and presented. Channels like this have made youtube so awesome to watch.
When I was younger I wouldn't question why things are like they are. Weezer on my Win95 install CD. Meh, that's just how it is...
Now you point it out, it's very strange and intriguing.
24mins just flew by, very entertaining, thank you!
Some of us used GEOS long before windows on our Commodore 64.
BASIC programming for the Atari 2600 had windows that could be minimized and switched between
I remember being blown away playing video on my computer when this came out. I was 10
I was a bit older, though still in school. The video responsible was in DOS games The 7th Guest and Under A Killing Moon. The latter ended up a particular favourite. I consider it one of the best adventure games ever made.
I love the Closed Captioning. Thumbs up.
Looks like I am going thru the Bill Plympton rabbit hole for the first time in years. Cheers for that!
Yeah Windows 95 was definitely considered ground breaking at the time. There's a reason that the UI it started has been iterated on for other versions of Windows to this day.
Sure, Apple had some of the stuff, but not all of it. In particular, it didn't have the hierarchical Start Menu or taskbar. It didn't make it automatic to put shortcuts on the desktop.
And, most importantly, it didn't have proper multitasking. Everything still ran in the same memory space, meaning a problem with a single program would take down the whole system. System 7 still used cooperative multitasking used in Windows 3.1, where the programs had to be designed to let other apps work.
yep and windows can't remove the start menu now, everyone is so used to it. win3.1 gui was so chunky. desktop was the other thing, having a place you could just dump everything.
This was the first time I'd ever seen live video on a computer before. We had upgraded our Tandy 1000 to an Acer w/ the 75mhz Pentium and it came (a couple months later) with the Windows 95 disks. Still remember that moment.
I remember getting my first sound card and playing it amazing 😍
Yes, I was amazed to find that video on my computer. I watched it over and over again.
I have Weezer's "Buddy Holly" (self-titled album) and Edie Brickell's "Good Times" ( _Picture Perfect Morning_ ) on my Win 95 CD, which I still have around somewhere. (1:01) I forgot about _Rob Roy._
Multimedia kits and promos were still a thing then. Good times, indeed.
That was a really good episode. I love the feel of nostalgia nerd content. Educational, interesting and calming!
15 minutes in, and 2 different plugs for some spammy “sponsor”, the weezer song was put on the OS because they wanted to show off the trendy and fun new operating system that plays videos and stuff
That's literally every other TH-camr in a nutshell and for me, I just skip the plugins for "sponsors" after being heard a billion and one times.
Thanks, this was a real slow poke video!
You're very welcome!
That really grates me. Non skippable ads when you have paid for TH-cam premium. Creators should be docked premium revenue for this.
@@JosephByrne creators don't get anything out of your decision to pay for premium. Premium money only goes to google and is an excuse for them to not overload you with their ads. If you want to give creators money through youtube, the channel memberships is the only way to go
I was a teenager when Win 95 launched, and a huge computer nerd. It was so exciting. I don't know if I've ever been through a product launch since that carried that kind of energy. I had been reading about it in PC World and PC Computing for months, and had a beta copy I downloaded from a BBS. I definitely navigated all around the CD, found the Fun Stuff folder, and clips therein.
A friend of mine came over and we watched the Rob Roy trailer, and went out and rented it that night. Good movie!
I remember being a bit sad to see the Windows 3.x aesthetic retire when '95 came out.
I thought I was the only person who had this until just now. I think about it constantly.
i remember that some times when i felt exhausted and tired from life, i started the video in the little window, and it was so smoothing to see that computers can now play video, so bright future has finally come :)
This completely ruined my childhood idea that it was on there as Bill Gates really liked it and wanted to share it.
Glad to finally know the real story!
I think all of the developers actually liked it, they basically all wore glasses hence the Buddy Holly reference.
hey, we dont know his musical taste
i thought i had a pirate version of 95 when i found this
The pirate versions were sold in the Bronx 149th st (full installation no upgrade). Staples had the shiny box.
I remember how the videos were viewable on Windows 3.1 prior to running the upgrade to 95.
I hadn't thought of this in years. I never understood why that was there, but it seemed cool.
You have your timeline a little out. Windows 95 wasn't really "internet ready" out of the box, since you had to buy the Plus! add-on pack to enable that. It only came built into the OS with later versions. I was working at a computer shop just after the Windows 95 release and we used the Weezer video to test the audio and video on newly built PCs.
Yeah, but it was quite common early on for the Plus! pack to be integrated in, especially on new computers. He does at least mention the Internet Explorer required the Plus! pack.
Loved this video! I was soooooooo excited for WIndows 95 when it came out, so seeing the disc and box and the videos was so awesome! Thank you!
Pretty amazing to realize I was already using icons and such from 1985 onwards with the Amiga. :) The only time I used a command-line was on the beloved 8-bit computers. And yes, cyber-cafe's, those were such fun... when the Internet was still... just fun and interesting. Man, such a shame we live in a time where tech is awesome, yet all the comm things suck big time.
Same on Atari :)
Man, this brought back some memories... nerdy as it sounds, I adored that Windows 95 promo video with the wind blowing away poor old Win 3.1 and replacing it with the clouds of Windows 95. The tune was really catchy! "On fi-yuh! On fi-yeh, fire!"
I remember playing this countless times on my first windows 95 pc :)
In '91-'92, one of the computers in the school I attended demonstrated the playing an early MP3 sample file of "Start It Up" by the Rolling Stones from it's hard drive in MS-DOS. A bit ironic, in light of Microsoft's use of it in their introductory ad for Windows '95.
I love those little voice-overs when quoting someone ;)
The skill of my patrons never ceases to astound me.
I used to work at a parts-repair/testing place way back in the day. We used to use a Win95 CD and the weezer video as a test file for test CD Drives. I've heard the first 20 seconds of this video THOUSANDS of times! Crazy times.
Oh man, I remember stumbling on these on my friend's dad's PC in the living room. It was summer of 96 and we were looking up Sailor Moon stuff. He heard the video playing and got pissed because he thought we somehow managed to download something of that size back then! I showed him where they were located and he was like, "Oh...ok then" and went back to smoking his bowl. Good times.
Bowl of crack? :3
@TH-cam Is a Joke Hey, whats up with the racism? I am white and I would love to smoke some crack...
Im smoking a bowl right now and and nothing wrong with a little crack every once in awhile.
I remember bring at the launch of Windows 95 in my city. They'd rented a huge expo space and it was full of people, excited to see this new operating system. There were bands playing, giveaways, demos of games and applications... I can't imagine the world being this positively excited and hooked on an operating system in today's day and age. It was a literal event.
Because Weezer is awesome? Suppose I better watch the video really.
Says it all about how quickly we moved on in so few years, in 1995 there's like a TH-cam with ONE video, and it's YOU!
This felt like old school Nostalgia Nerd. Loved it.
Peter is old school even in the new school. He’s the Leader of the Old School. Rrrrrah rrrrrah like a dungeon dragon. 🐉
Weezer (or their label, rather) were very smart to include this. Everyone wanted to play videos on their computer, after all. It was amazing, it probably wasn't the first time you saw a video on a PC but it was universal, everyone with a PC modern enough to run Windows 95 had this video and the exposure for the band was immense. I''d be surprised if Weezer didn't see a lot more sales for their music out of it, not that they were an unknown band or anything but this got one of their better songs and a pretty cool music video into peoples heads.
Hey, I became a Weezer fan because of that Win95 video and had purchased all their albums. I wouldn’t have been exposed to their tunes otherwise.
I will never be able to unsee that DOS 5 video. Thanks for that! :)
I’ve actually always wondered about this.
Have you seen Dave's Garage channel? He was a developer at windwos then, the author of windows task manager, has some cool inside stories on his channel.
Heh, “ a 3 minute song would take as little as 10 minutes to download…. “. I. Remember that. Horrible
Ten minutes, or an hour. You never know.
Several years earlier I had to wait 10 mins to download a colour photo of Samantha Fox. LOL! It downloaded 1 horizontal line of pixels at a time. It was probably a 1200 baud modem back then, about 150 bytes per second or 9KB per minute. Talk about anticipation!
I remember early limewire files. Want to watch a 240p movie? Just give it 3 days and maybe it will download without a million errors.
Crazy days, convincing your parents not to use the phone while you "legally" downloaded music. For me it was like 15 minutes per song. Video was insane, I remember watching the Phantom Menace trailer, playing the same few seconds over and over again as it took an age to download the whole thing.
@@ProffyChaos I remember terrible quality RealMedia and QuickTime files taking over a day to download just one. I think we were able to use our phone and internet at the same time. I don’t remember how.
Seeing and hearing that song when I did back in the day made a huge impression on me. It's oddly one of my most vivid memories of my childhood. Ps... I wonder why the hell your captions in this video take so many liberties...
Mr. Nerd, do u even comprehend what kind of nostalgic feelings I'm getting watching ALL the extra footage you included even so far as the commercial with the stars from Friends and the MTV VMA acceptance for Weezer's Buddy Holly???! LOVED IT!!! THANKS!!!
-Sincerely,
Just and old man in his early 40s who lived the 90s as a teen and wish he could go back and relive them again 😫
An amazing video, as always. Keep up the great work!
I like Weezer a hell of a lot more than I like U2. Thanks for that by the way Apple.
That song made me a lifelong Weezer and Windows fan simultaneously.
I was in love with Edie Brickell back then. Paul Simon is a very lucky man.
I worked at a University computer lab at the time. I remember me or a friend finding the Weezer video at some point on the CD. As the this video points out, the video was a year old at that time, and I was in my early 20s, so of course I'd seen it far too many times MTV as it was in maximum rotation. So for me this wasn't like discovering some new hidden gem, more a curiosity. My reaction was more along the lines of "Huh, that's kind of interesting and random that Microsoft put this video on the CD. I wonder how that happened. Kinda cool". But honestly I don't think I thought about it again until 26 years later. Going back and looking at the original AVI I can see why. The quality, even for the "high performance" file is very fuzzy and grainy, and about the quality you might expect from a very noisy, fuzzy TV signal. Audio is pretty good though.
There wasn't really much digital video at the time. Quality was low, processors were a bit too slow. These were the days when mp3 was just barely getting started... There were a few mp3s available on FTP sites, but video was.... pretty much non-existent. Remember, even DVD at a gargantuan (at the time) 4.7 gigabytes didn't come out until 1996! Computers didn't really get fast enough to compress a video under a gigabyte until maybe the late 90s. The first movie I downloaded was in 1999, off of Napster.
So from a technical perspective including this video on Windows 95 was a genius idea. It showed what was then possible.
The other thing I'd point out is that Windows 95 was the first "modern" Windows operating system that was designed from the get-go to run more than one program at the same time instead of it being shoe-horned in like it was in Windows 3.1, or MacOS through 8.
Windows 3.1 suffered from horrible crash and lockup problems, primarily because any program could write to any memory location it wanted (the memory space was shared among the whole OS in 16 bit mode), and each program had to yield to others. MacOS had similar problems. Remember the great bomb icon? So any program that was buggy could lock up the whole system. Windows 95 (when used with 32 bit programs) solved both these problems by creating a separate memory space for every program, as well as putting in pre-emptive multi-tasking, so any buggy program couldn't lock up the whole computer since the OS was in control of tasks. Windows 95 really was "a big deal".
So the claims of Apple that Windows 95 were just "MacOS 7" were completely ridiculous. It took Apple another 6 years to release OS-X, which finally had the protected memory, and pre-emptive multi-tasking that Windows had in 1995.
Wait. I just realised that they sold it as "Microsoft MS-DOS". When it should just be... Microsoft DOS... Right? Or just... MS-DOS.
What the hell.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 The branding came many years before DR-DOS came on the scene. The original deal to supply the OS for the IBM PC branded as PC-DOS. Microsoft retained the right to sell the nearly identical MS-DOS. IBM believed this wasn't worth all that much because the copyrighted BIOS of the PC was critical to having software run as is. This worked for a while. Machines like the TI Pro and the Tandy 2000 ran MS-DOS but needed software specific to them. A developer could use most of the code that went into an IBM PC version but whether a particular machine merited the work for its own version of a program, especially when this meant sinking capital into manufacturing the separate discs, and dealing with the hassles of maintaining multiple versions.
These machines were often a fair bit nicer than the IBM PC, especially in the area of graphics. But that also meant getting the most out of them meant a lot of extra work as opposed to a port done in less than a week. So, while those machine brought in a lot of revenue for Microsoft, they didn't get much of the market. When Compaq legally cloned the PC BIOS to make machines that ran off the shelf IBM PC software, followed by a clone BIOS becoming available for anyone looking to make IBM PC compatible systems, that changed the game entirely. (Compaq wasn't the first to market but they were the one who got the most stuff right, both in the BIOS and other aspects like marketing, so they became the big name in IBM clones.) It was at that point IBM regretted not paying Microsoft more and taking full ownership of PC-DOS, including derivative versions.
Digital Research lost out on the original base OS for the IBM PC because Dorothy Kildall, the wife of founder Gary Kildall and a savvy attorney, looked at the contract IBM proposed and came back with a long list of objections and changes. IBM thought they were taking advantage of Microsoft's comparative youth and hunger, even though Gates didn't lack for serious legal advice either, as his father was fairly well known in the WA law business. The real difference was the perception of where small computers were heading as a business and that it was worthwhile to make some sacrifice initially to get an advantageous position. It went against the grain for DR, who were then a big fish in the small pond of microcomputers, to put up with IBM's snobbery.
This is one of my favorite songs of all time.I remember this being on my uncle's computer back in the day and thought he downloaded it. I'm excited to learn about this.
i mean its a good song, thats why
I remember those music videos. My volume was up too high and it was very WTF when Weezer belted out of the speakers! hehehe
Didn't one version of Windows come with a MP3 of a Beck song?
Windows ME did.
@@garry12gg Good song. Very bad OS.
@@davidwiley4953 LOL!
@@garry12gg Probably should have been Loser.
It was only 30sec of the song "Beautiful Way".
Holy shit this hit me in the nostalgia bone hard! I remember watching this video over and over when I was a kid
What's with these homies dissing my girl?
Why do they gotta front?!
It also boggles my mind.. also why do they gotta front?
@@Nostalgianerd I know, right?! What did we ever do to these guys?
I tested so many audio problems with that video. great video once again.
Hover is still a fun game.
Agreed.
I've wanted to know the answer to this since the 90s. Thank you so much!