Oh man, my grandfather taught me how to use windows 95 when I was 6. Our mom had set the home computer to boot in DOS, thinking it'd keep us from the games (spoiler: it taught us how to read and type). I dunno why my grandfather was so "with it". He kept being with it 'till the end. Win 95 colours still remind me of him, thanks for posting this blast from the past!
Imagining traveling back in time and explaining to someone in the mid-90s that someday in the future, millions of people would spend 45+ minutes watching someone else install a Windows 95 upgrade...just for fun. 😎
Man. I remember getting Windows 95 and spending around 8 hours of a LAN party to get local network shares to work. The ability to browse a friends shared files while doing other stuff was amazing.
As a kid born in the late 90s, my very first interactions with computers were from using windows 95/98 machines and playing games like the sims and rainbow six with my brothers. Your videos always give me a huge nostalgia trip to those days. Thanks for the content!
The startup sound is only 7 seconds long, and Microsoft paid about $101k for every 7 seconds of Start Me Up. So not as huge of a difference, if you think about it that way.
I remember my dad bringing home our first computer sometime in 1996. It was a black Compaq Presario 2200 running Windows 95. It came with Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia and I nearly wore that CD out exploring every topic it had to offer. After that our whole family was playing Hover and we were all trying to beat each other's high scores, and one day my dad brought home Star Trek Borg and I fell in love with that right along side him. Even though we don't have that computer anymore, several years ago I found the exact model for sale and picked it up. With some work I got it running again and installed Windows 95 on it from the restore disks. I love having that PC just for all the memories and early computer knowledge it gave me.
A relatively local CompUSA had a midnight sale for Windows 95 on August 24th - I was so excited. What sweetened the deal was that they were selling RAM dirt cheap that night and I was able to upgrade my machine from 8 megs to 16!
I was managing a software store when Windows 95 came out. Since we were a Microsoft gold reseller we got to co-host the local launch party. Win 95 was an incredibly big event. We had been using the Beta for months so we were used to the software but it was still amazing to see the reaction to it.
@@LGRI'm having to think back almost 30 years, it was actually before the launch. Microsoft did a national promotional tour in the month prior. There was a demo showing the upgrade process and the features., mostly technical, not nearly as cringey as the Jay Leno/Bill Gates video. Everyone who came got to reserve a copy of the software but we still had a big line on launch day. I remember during the upgrade demo one of the guys turned the computer off and the other guy acted like he had destroyed the computer but of course it magically resumed the install when they powered it back on.
34:10 - When it comes to soft power switching and the "You can now turn off your computer" message, it was the opposite experience for me, as a kid. My mind was completely blown how the PC can _turn itself off._ Like, no need to press a button, it's just... it turns off! It seemed like a wild concept. Then again, I similarly enjoyed how you could open and close a CD tray through software.
Man I also remember being blown away by being able to turn the computer ON using the keyboard. I forget what combination of keys it was but had to enable it on bios
I too was blown away when you could open and close the CD tray from a program. It felt like you were controlling a robot. You have to understand that controlling something physical through a button on screen was a powerful experience.🎉
I remember going to a launch party at Incredible Universe and it was, well, incredible! The excitement and energy in the crowd was so fantastic! My family didn’t “get it” and thought I was crazy going to a “party” at an electronics store. Windows 95 was everything that it was hyped to be. What an awesome memory. Thanks for the video!
I still remember when I was a kid and did the 95 upgrade on our family PC, because of course I knew more about the thing than my parents even at whatever young age. When the 95 boot screen came up, I remember running to get my parents, because "this is a historic moment!" I don't think they thought so. But the fact I still remember it says otherwise!
lol! Windows95 was the historic moment itself, like some scientific inventions or discoveries. Well sort of, because it is a product of a very intensive research.
I don't think I've ever heard the actual MIDI music of 3D Pinball before. This was such an amazing video! Thank you so much for creating it and for making us part of the opening experience. That classic cloud loading intro of Windows 95 is still one of my favorites.
I remember when this came out. I was 15 and my friend and I (working together today as developers) were interning at an office/computer store. When we unpacked disks we brought from home the store owner just said "I'm going to meet a client... thus I never saw anything." That night I upgraded at home. Good days
Holy cow! I spent tens of hours in Space Cadet with XP and just now I learned that it had music. And such an awesome tune! Thank you so much for your videos, Clint! They bring me so much joy in such... uneasy times. Hope everything will be alright in the coming times.
When my father's company upgraded their comouters to Windows 95, the old 386 units with MSDOS were put up for sale. Dad bought 2 and brought them home for my sister and I to learn how to to type and use a computer. So many good memories playing games like Crystal Caves and Duke Nukem!
I count myself fortunate to have lived through these times as a teenager, windows 95 was a huge change and then access to the internet blew my tiny mind. Thanks for the nostalgia trip 🙏
Yes... memories. When Win 95 came out, I had been rocking the final Beta version on my 486DX2-66 for about 6 months. When people from school were coming over, you should have seen their faces when they saw that I wasn't running 3.11 anymore!
I also upgraded off of a 66.. Also remember upgrading to the first pentiums around that time too only because of Duke nukem running at 1/4 of a frame per second. But windows 3.11 and MS-DOS 6.2 was a wonderful start to computers I think
Thanks for your great channel! As a child of the 90s it is extremely fun to watch your videos! These almost always make me laugh! Especially when I think about what absurd accessories there were back then! For example, I had glasses that would transfer my head movement into games! The packaging sold it to me at the time as a life-changing gaming experience! In the end my PC and I were wired like a Borg and it still didn't work! You just had to get in touch with the technology back then! I miss that times so much! Thanks a lot for you and your great work! Best regards from Austria!
It ain't much but it's enough to say thanks for all that you do. AND You're absolutely right about the Windows 95 start up tune...it hits those nostalgic vibes hard. I miss those days... I guess I should add my own Windows story to this. My very first ever PC was a 386. It had Windows 3.1 (that BARELY ran) so most of my gaming was done in DOS (it had some weird DOS O/S too). Games that I mostly played were Doom II, Warcraft 1, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, Indianapolis 500: The Simulation, Corridor 7, Battlechess, and a few others that I can't quite remember right now. Warcraft 1 was SO slow and had no sound (since I only had PC Speaker - which the game didn't support) but I didn't care, it was so damn amazing to play such a game, that I bared with it. Windows 3.1 though - I had most fun with that playing the "After Dark" screensaver editor program. SO much fun. Otherwise, Windows was too slow on that system to do much else with it. My very first time on the internet was with this machine - good ol'dial up - 14.4K. Freenet is what we had - it was free internet but with no HTML, no graphics, just text. Yet it somehow work just fine. I remember downloading games and installing them, the fact I could do this blew my mind back then. Games like Prince of Persia, Golden Axe, Commander Keen, etc. Also I played on a lot of BBS's. Eventually this machine just died from overheating - we used it non-stop. Then we didn't see a new PC until maybe 2 years later when my Uncle gave us his hand-me-down Pentium II (Celeron). It was a massive improvement...anyway I could go on forever. The good ol'days.
Hi Clint, I dont have memories to Windows 95 as I was born in the 2000s but I love watching your stuff its somehow relaxing and calming for me, helps with anxiety, anyways I love your stuff!
So many memories. I love the plus pack. Pointless fact, for the Da Vinci theme, Bill Gates actually licensed and scanned Da Vinci's original work to use as the background. It's awesome.
@@LGR Yes! BG purchased the Codex Leicester, a volume of da Vinci's hand drawn/hand written scientific papers for $30M. It was named for the Earl of Leicester, whose estate owned the document until 1980, dating back to his purchase of it in 1717. Corbis released a CD-ROM title called "Leonardo da Vinci" that includes an interactive version of the Codex, complete with English translation.
@@XYZ-pm3ju Public Domain doesn’t mean that the owner of the original is obligated to give you access. When old music enters public domain, you can freely reproduce it from whatever tape, CD, record. But whoever owns the masters will be able to make a much better reproduction than you ever could.
The nostalgia is real. I was like 10 when this came out and remember wanting it badly too. Always love your videos Clint. I got my fancy modern gaming rig these days, but I think I may have to make an old school build of my own sometime. I want to play some games as intended again. Emulation isn't the same. The 90s were a special time in history for many of us.
I got my first IT job just before 95 came out. As an IT professional, it was a godsend. It was so buggy and insecure, that I never had to worry about not having a job.
LGR, my family and I are praying for you and yours during your time recovering from the storm. May God bless you and keep you safe and sound. I hate that your collection was damaged but I'm so glad to hear everyone is OK.
We jumped from 3.11 on a 486 to Windows 98SE on A P2 266 with MMX. It was mind blowing since it had DVD support. A lot of the edutainment we had ran perfectly fine on the 486 with CD players, what blew out mind though was the 98SE computer had a DVD drive and we bought DVD movies to watch on the family computer connected to the TV. Wild times.
The wording of your comment implies that you no longer have a computer hooked up to your TV. I can tell you this much: You haven't *lived* until you've tried PC gaming on a modern 4K 120Hz OLED. Even the desktop is an exciting experience on a massive display, even if it's just a regular old 1080p60 screen. You should try it.
I loved that "Inside your computer" theme so much back then. Used to think it was so cool that looking at my desktop I could "see" what's in my computer. I think I ended up settling on the space theme though. I loved the sounds that went with that. Not sure if that was 95 or 98.
Space was definitely part of the '95 Plus pack. It was my favorite of the included themes. I loved the sounds as well, and actually have it set right now on my Win 98 retro PC.
My first computer was an Acer Aspire with windows 95 in 1995. I remember The Rolling Stones commercial. I also 3 years later when windows 98 came out which was Also hyped big time. I bought it the release date. The start menu was so innovative that when they tried to remove it (windows 8) everyone complained. Thanks for the nostalgia, Clint.
This is totally the era I'm so nostalgic about! Back in the late 90's we only had an Amiga 500, but all my friends had various other systems. One of the most influencial was this guy who had a Windows95 system. I saw that PS/2 or serial Microsoft mouse on the background (original install screen of Win95, maybe the actually had a mouse like that, I'm not sure), they even had Microsoft Plus! installed too and holy hell, you finally showed off the Duke Nukem Screensavers, I'm so happy that you finally touched on this, I saw that screensaver set there too. I saw and played Duke Nukem 3D first there, and my user name is that for a reason :) Saw and played Lode Runner, Need for Speed 3, Quake, Incubation - Battle Isle Phase IV, Networkd Q Rac Rally at this friend's place. Every single game was so... determinative? Maybe this is not the right word. I think this was a Pentium 1 system because it could run Quake. I'm still a fan of that era and still a fan of NFS3, Duke3D and Quake to this day, thanks to these wonderful times at this buddy's place. Thanks for making this video! :D
Going from Windows 3.1 to Win 95 was mind blowing for its user interface! My family was able to fully use the computer without doing DOS prompts and those hidden icons!
We started to get Windows 3.11 PC's in my last year of high school, but my best friend sold me his Packard Bell with Windows 95. So Windows 95 was the first PC I owned. I don't remember the specs, but it was slow. It was used, and it was a mess. All I wanted was to play Sim City, and that it did just fine. I had no idea about how computers worked and I was way too frightened to touch what I didn't understand in case I broke it. Just installing a programme would give me anxiety. I heard my friends talking about 386 and 486 and DOS, and not having a clue what any of it meant. It wasn't until I bought a Windows 7 PC after the computer I had before it stopped working, that I finally cracked the old one open to see what it was all about. So naïve was I, I couldn't have pointed to a single thing and told you what it was. I did some research. I even fixed it and then wanted to know more. I've spent the last decade working back through the PC eras filling in the gaps in my knowledge and fitting it to the memories I have. I am roughly the same age as the 8088 and to think that all this has been done in my lifetime just flat out amazes me. Ironically, had the Internet been more of a thing when I had that Windows 95 Packard Bell, I would have known sooner how much joy computers would bring me, and my life probably would have taken a very different path to the one that it did. However, building, repairing, and learning about PC's is just a hobby and I thank TH-camrs like yourself for making such a huge contribution to that. Everyone that makes access to this old stuff so easy is truly awesome.
My god, what a throwback. My family got our first computer in November of 95. It was a Compaq Presario 9546. I went with my Dad to Incredible Universe and CompUSA getting software and accessories. I was 9 and my previous computer experience at the time was with Win 3.11 and various Apple/Macintosh systems. Really exciting time with all the newfangled multimedia. I spent hours playing DK's "The Way Things Work", Encarta 95, MechWarrior 2, Aces of the Deep and bunch of DOS games. Thanks for taking us back Clint!
When I upgraded our 486 from 3.1 it wasn't just a task, it was a event, installing it and the anticipation of using the new system was as much exciting as using it. I miss those days
I remember the excitement when I first upgraded to windows 95 on our 486, for some reason I was hyped for the feature that you could have folders in folders on the desktop! Definitely the future of computing!
I know it's off topic but looking at your video gives me memories of playing my NES and Sega... listening to cassette tapes and finally cds... it was a good time. Thank you
Man the memories of 95. I still remember the windows 95 computer my parents had in the office of our house. Watching this made me so nostalgic. I remember being so worried about breaking something that I only ever typed win at the dos prompt to get to w95... It felt so much more safe and inviting my comparison.
The marketing push for 95 was insane! I worked at a duplication facility in London (UK) and we didn't sleep for 2 days producing hundreds of broadcast Beta SP/Digibetas for the whole of Europe and the Middle East. Hearing that Stones' song sends a shiver down my spine!
Great nostalgia trip, Clint. Thank you. I remember my uncle installing Windows 95 Upgrade, CD-ROM version, on multiple computers across the family before pesky Internet verification was a thing. I don't think we had Internet Explorer, but Netscape instead, and it's wild to think you would have had to pay $25 extra for that back then. But I do recall him also getting the Plus pack and sinking hours into the games and such included with it.
I still remember upgrading my old PC to win95, was super excited by every small new thing it had, I got the Plus! CD shortly after with all the crazy themes and stuff... but I was blown away when I got the command and conquer RedAlert domination pack at some Christmas that came with even more themes for windows! A fun fact that I learned from a tech guy on 96' was that you could do a clean install using the upgrade disk by doing some CLI magic I forgot long time ago.
My dad worked for a Microsoft partnered consultancy company in the '90s and so we got Windows 95 and the Plus! pack for free. We definitely ran it on a 486 initially, with a Sound Blaster Pro. Some of our first Win 95 games were 3D Movie Maker, Deadly Tide, Monster Truck Madness, and The Neverhood. We also had free dialup internet access through his company's private ISP. I was downloading DOS shareware left and right, from sites like Happy Puppy.
Back in the mid 90s, I remember trying to squeeze every bit of drive space and memory out of my 486DX-33. When I upgraded from 4mb to 8mb, I felt like a million bucks because I did it myself.
My first upgrade was from 8 to 32 MiB of EDO RAM to go with my Cyrix 586 100 MHz. It was supposed to match a Pentium 75, but Quake sure proved that wrong. In any case, it wasn’t until that upgrade that I reinstalled Windows 95; two years prior I decided to downgrade to DOS 6.22 and 3.11. I still have my original OEM Win95 CD-ROM.
@@aziztcf I considered trying out compression, I remember, but never saw the need when I later uploaded to a massive 3 GB hard drive. 7.9 milliseconds - it was blazingly fast!
as a young kid i was lucky enough to open a brand new boxed version of both windows 95 and windows 98 the experience still sticks with me today, sure there were a bunch of other good games that were awesome to unbox like starcraft... diablo... tomb raider i still remember the whole process of trying to figure out how to get it installed... that iconic installer with its animations and sounds cracking open an OS box was always a different kind of excitement, knowing that the very base of your computer was about to be updated to a new experience was a special kind of time
My first computer was a Pentium II 233 MHZ with Windows 95 a Expert Color 32 bit graphics card and a Sound Blaster. It was a custom build computer that my dad paid $2000 for back in 1996 or 1997 and remembering my dad's frustration in just a couple of years time our computer was already outdated. Upgraded it once to a Pentium III 450 MHZ with Windows ME and a Pure 3D 3DFX card.
At school there were a lot of Pentium 2s with Windows 95 and someone put Midtown Madness on all of them and if we did all the work in class we had a LAN party the remaining time :) Also Worms Armageddon!
Dude I just discovered your channel this week but I'm BINGING. All the hardware and software I wanted when I was young, but couldn't obtain because.... I was just a kid, like you
That Win95 intro sound though 👌 My first PC was an IBM Aptiva 95, with Win95 plus a bundle pack of other programs like Encarta 95 and games like Caesar II, my first browser was Netscape Navigator. We bought it from a big box retailer (Makro), it was a pretty sweet deal back in early 96, I was 9 years old at the time, that PC stayed with us until 2002 when we upgraded to a WinXP PC, another amazing OS.
15895-OEM-0001411-51565 was mine. Still also burned in my brain. I also found out that the serial verification scheme would allow for 0002822 instead of 0001411 dunno why :D
@@marcosalves4890 Finally, a key I can use to install Windows 95 to my brand new PC - I was getting tired of using FreeDOS + Windows 3.1 😛 I'm so going to use this for evil! 😝
I remember doing this upgrade on my family's first PC, a Tandy, from 3.1 to 95. I spent way to much time play HOVER! and "edutainment" games like Math Blaster. This was a great stroll down memory lane.
I can't describe how satisfying this video is to watch. It's oddly heartwarming, familiar, comforting and nostalgic. it was like traveling in time. Thanks
Windows 95 was my first OS experience; my dad brought home the work laptop and had it connected to a CRT in our basement. I vividly remember playing many, many games (mostly Reader Rabbit and the like, I was a kid). It was shortly upgraded to 98, but that was a formative memory for me.
LGR I remember the hype and buying Windows 95 that very day. The cool thing about version A of 95 was being able to run every dos game I had. I was able to adjust the upper memory address to keep as much of the 640k extended capacity . Later versions 95 B and C took more address space away. Good times and I want to install a legacy build like i remembered. Have fun man!
Wow you really took a bullet for us going to the Windows 95 upgrade route on a 486. Brings so much memories back. Yeap I was one of the poor bloke who had a 486 66Mhz and then upgrade it to Win 95 using the floppy disks. Got the same experience you got with the games playing slow. Broke down and got a Cyrix 5x86 chip and make sure to get Win 95 in a CD. Such a big change going from Win 3.1 to 95.
I still remember when we got our Win95 machine, it was such a huge upgrade over our previous IBM clone. Me and my brother went straight from playing ASCII only door/BBS games to stuff like Warcraft 2 and Crusader. Having actual sound was nice too since I could hook it up to my grandfather's old stereo receiver and annoy everyone with tracker tunes I downloaded off of AOL. (using either MOD4Win or CubicPlayer) Oh, so many memories....
Great video brought back a flood of memories. I remember lining up at for the midnight launc of windows 95 outside of a Computer City in Las Vegas NV. It was crazy they had a band playing inside the store. It was a real event. I also recall buying Windows 95 plus the same night. Everytime I hear that Weezer song it makes me feel old and I'm only 51. Love the windows 95 content and love the PC Jr content.
I had 3.11 for a while and then visited a friend's house whose father had 95. We went to play some games on the PC and I was like "WHAT IS THAT?!" He proceeded to give me a two-minute rundown of the Start Menu, where everything was, etc. I was hooked, and I then taught my dad when we upgraded. Thanks Raymond!
I definitely remember the huge hype surrounding the launch of Win 95. It probably wasn't until the following year, but I remember being super excited to install it on my Gateway 486 SX 33 MHz PC with 4 megabytes of RAM. It ran like crap, but I was so happy to be part of the this new advancing technology I didn't really care, lol.
The fact you name your machines is actually useful. Woodgrain, mega-monster, it's like these PCs are people you meet at parties you haven't seen in a while.
Thank you for taking the time to install my favorite operating system of all time. Look at it go! Good stuff, Clint. I used 95 on my dad's computer around when it came out, just to play some HE titles and The Way Things Work. Eventually, I got my own AST 486 in '96 and spent hours playing around in MS Paint, opening as many windows as I could at once. LEGO Island was too much for my AST, so I had to use my dad's computer to play it. Eventually, I got his computer as a hand-me-down, after it got 98 installed on it, and the AST made its way to the trash. Decades later, I dug up the exact same model on ebay, and I find myself installing 95 in so many varieties on all sorts of hardware to enjoy the wonders it provides.
Thanks for making this video Clint! I was 12 when win95 came out, and my dad installed it on his 486, which later became my 486. Used that thing till early 1999. The gaming situation is so recognisable, forget running anything post ‘96-ish on a rig like that. But man, it was magical, felt like we stepped into some kind of fresh future!
This video brought back so many happy memories, and watching you play Doom on Windows 95 reminded me the countless hours we spent with my cousins during weekends and holidays doing just that!
Hey Clint! Great video and I'm excited of learning that you have the same kind of memories I had as a kid (maybe around same time), you know, like an uncle with a brand new pc and you being so surprised every second you played with it.. Yeah, that's just about the kind of memories I have and that I try to share with brazilian audiences through my YT channel as well (a very small one, I must say), your channel is my main inspiration but I lack your unique sense of humor, great editing capabilities and everything that made you the best "retro pc" channel in the world. I really expect this compliment to reach you although I don't ever think you will ever be able to answer my comment as I know that you receive quite a lot of comments every single day, but I really do wish you to keep doing well and hopefully, making videos. Thank you for all your work which gave me many many hours I spent traveling through time with you. See ya.
Windows 95 was really a truly revolutionary piece of software if you were a PC user. About that rollback to win3.11 - I actually tried it. A friends dad was non too impressed with 95 so we rolled back to 3.11 and it worked quite well as I remember it
Somehow, when I installed few times Win95 the installer asked if I want Win95 UI or I prefer using Program Manager and Win3.1 UI. I am not sure if that was on a new install or upgrade. And yes, I used once Win95 with Win3.1 Program Manager as UI just to se how was like. And if I remember correctly there was an entry in system.ini (or was it on win.ini?) where one could put any program instead of explorer.exe as UI. I used windows commander sometimes and was hilarious to see friends looking confused to my "WinCommander95" OS.
The sad thing is that OS/2 had been around for several years, able to run Windows software but people dealt with unstable Windows 3.1 for years ignorant of its existence.
@@stepheneickhoff4953 OS/2 was quite a bit more expensive, wasn't preinstalled (due to Microsoft's uncompetitive practices), and thus lacked the economies of scale in these and other ways. The OS/2 developer kit was mighty expensive, while the one(s) by Microsoft was free.
I upgraded my dad's IBM Aptiva Pentium 75 without telling him. Win 95 upgrade CD were sent out on mail by IBM and I needed it to have Win 95 to be able to play C&C. Upgrade process worked flawlessly. Still remember the drum and two sticks playing on it. 16 years old and obsessed by computers. Sweet memories.
My family got our first computer in 95. I was so excited when my mum said we would be getting a computer. Was disappointed when she came home with a DOS computer from the late 80s. Now I am glad she did, because it I feel in love with older tech and older games. Still have that old computer. It no longer runs but would like to try and get it operational again one day.
Clint, I've never really been very interested in older tech like this since I was born too late to experience much of it. Thanks for sharing stuff like this in such an informative way! Also seeing Jennifer Aniston along with windows 95 is hilarious.
This is bringing back good memories of the Windows 95 computer my parents had between ~95 and 2000. I remember playing hover from the Windows 95 disk, enjoyed the crap out of that game. Before that I'd only played DOS 2D games. I also remember when I got a game that didn't run due to too little memory, so we went to the city centre to buy more. We got an 8 mb stick, upgrading the system to 16 mb total! Good times.
I still remember installing windows 95 for the first time... and the included music video with Edie Brickell. Totally night and day from win 3.1. I was working in a computer store at the time, building PCs, and we installed so many versions of windows 95 back then.
First used it on my aunt's Compaq Presario CDS-524, nice little "all in one" model with tiny speakers. Been trying to hunt down one since she got rid of it ages ago! Loved the video!!
My first computer was a hand me down from my uncle. Windows 95 started it all. Then I started to use my grandmothers win 98 se laptop and she was very computer savvy and got me really into computers. I now run my own IT consulting company - it all starts with that little "spark"
Our first family computer had Win95 on it, cost us ~$4500 at the time as it was "top of the line" at the time. I learned so much on that computer as well as how to use the internet. I still have such fond memories of that machine to this day.
@@trashyraccoon2615 It was a generic beige box, but I remember we got absolutely everything at the time. Dot matrix colour printer, modem, 1.2GB hdd, cd-rom and sound card. This was also in AUD so wouldve be closer to $3000-3200USD at the time.
Our first computer in 1995 or 96 was a black IBM Aptiva with 200mhz Pentium, 3.2GB HDD, CD and floppy, dial-up modem, sound card, monitor with built-in speakers, and printer for $3,500 USD from Radio Shack. It was top of the line at the time too. But that didn't last for long because technology was advancing so rapidly at that time. I still have a lot of great memories from that machine.
I loved this episode, I'm pretty sure I haven't heard the Sierra intro since 20 years ago. Also, I didn't spect you talking about Windows 95 plus! that was a must-have to get the full experience.
I remember when my dad brought home our windows 95 pc, it was built by Datel which is a local computer company that our previous 486 was also built by. Seeing a pc with a CD rom and speakers was so cool. Upgrading from a 14" shamrock monitor to a big 17" sony was really nice too. It really felt like such a huge upgrade over the old system
Just watched the entire video, it was an amazing time travel, where I could finally see how the Windows 95 Install packages looked like! For me Windows 95 was the first ever OS I used when I was a kid (alongside MS-DOS), and I have fond memories of that! I remember the joys of listening to MID files through the OPL3 sound chip (I was gathering as many MID files as I could), browsing through the shovelware and magazine cover CDs (that made me discover some nice shareware stuff, including Warcraft 2). Fun times!
The fact that the full retail version of Windows 95 was released on like 20+ floppies when you consider how unreliable those can be long-term is just incredible. I remember trying to install it from floppies and it failed every time, then I just gave up and asked my parents for a CD-ROM drive for xmas, and that was my first disc drive.
Thank you for a great video, a road down memory lane. 1995 I had a 486 SX/33 - a chip made by UMC, called "Green CPU". It was "overclockable" to 40MHz by just altering the bus speed from 33MHz to 40MHz. It had 4MB RAM when I got it from my grandparents, but upgraded the RAM with a 16MB stick, it was crazy expensive for a 15 year old at the time, like 250 dollar or so. Then also adding a Soundblaster 16 + a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive. At the time, me and my friend longed for Windows 95 and we came over a "demo" version of it, if I recall correctly is was on two floppys. It was a preview and it showed the desktop and start menu. I remember sitting at my computer, amazed by this preview! Later I got Windows 95 to run on the computer, but it crashed running at 40MHz, so I hardwired the jumper to the turbo button, making it quite risky if someone tried to press it, I don't know what would happen if you changed the bus speed when the system was running, but handy when I wanted to play DOS games. I just turned the machine of and then pressed the turbo button. I still have the computer, but changed the motherboard after a battery leak.
I worked for an IT company back then, DOS 5.5 was the way to go. And then suddenly things started to happen. Great video, so many things that I already forgot about.
My most noteworthy memory of Windows 95 was that it was the OS we had when my dad first signed up for AOL (and in fact, he signed up for AOL shortly after upgrading our Compudyne to Windows 95). We had AOL 3.0 first, followed by 3.0A, and we eventually upgraded all the way to 5.0 when it came out (we skipped 4.0 entirely).
Oh man, my grandfather taught me how to use windows 95 when I was 6. Our mom had set the home computer to boot in DOS, thinking it'd keep us from the games (spoiler: it taught us how to read and type).
I dunno why my grandfather was so "with it". He kept being with it 'till the end. Win 95 colours still remind me of him, thanks for posting this blast from the past!
Love that
Life goal: to be that grandparent. I've got a grandmother who is incredibly with it well into her 80s, even going to college courses. Never settle.
Your grandmother? When you were five?
Man, I feel old now...
awesome memories man
He was hardcore gaming and you didn't realize it.
Imagining traveling back in time and explaining to someone in the mid-90s that someday in the future, millions of people would spend 45+ minutes watching someone else install a Windows 95 upgrade...just for fun. 😎
this has 350k views...
@@smartpug967 it’s not done accumulating views, has it? Someday, it will be in the millions! 🖥️
@@YouCantUnhearThis Maybe! (hopefully)
I wonder who will comment a century from now in 2123
For us that would be like someone from the 2050's coming back to our time to tell us they are watching people install Windows 11 just for fun.
Man. I remember getting Windows 95 and spending around 8 hours of a LAN party to get local network shares to work. The ability to browse a friends shared files while doing other stuff was amazing.
Yup.
That shared files really great for sharing MP3 files from napster for sure. 😅
Right there with you 🙏
"shared files".... real penetrating experience.
@@HamsterImWinterschlaf sticky stuff!
yoooooooo
that was so annoying before plug and play
didn't plug and play start on windows me?
As a kid born in the late 90s, my very first interactions with computers were from using windows 95/98 machines and playing games like the sims and rainbow six with my brothers. Your videos always give me a huge nostalgia trip to those days. Thanks for the content!
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Sims tho 😍 👌🏻
Don't forget Delta Force 1 & 2
sorry but you know nothing of the 90s
@@Kasperx138 imagine replying to a year old comment with something as irrelevant as this
The Rolling Stones were paid 3 million for the Start Me Up song while Brian Eno was paid $35k for the actual start up song.
The startup sound is only 7 seconds long, and Microsoft paid about $101k for every 7 seconds of Start Me Up. So not as huge of a difference, if you think about it that way.
@@SamiKankaristo I love that song.
Start me up.
I never start. I never start. I never never never start.
I remember my dad bringing home our first computer sometime in 1996. It was a black Compaq Presario 2200 running Windows 95. It came with Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia and I nearly wore that CD out exploring every topic it had to offer. After that our whole family was playing Hover and we were all trying to beat each other's high scores, and one day my dad brought home Star Trek Borg and I fell in love with that right along side him. Even though we don't have that computer anymore, several years ago I found the exact model for sale and picked it up. With some work I got it running again and installed Windows 95 on it from the restore disks. I love having that PC just for all the memories and early computer knowledge it gave me.
A relatively local CompUSA had a midnight sale for Windows 95 on August 24th - I was so excited. What sweetened the deal was that they were selling RAM dirt cheap that night and I was able to upgrade my machine from 8 megs to 16!
I was managing a software store when Windows 95 came out. Since we were a Microsoft gold reseller we got to co-host the local launch party. Win 95 was an incredibly big event. We had been using the Beta for months so we were used to the software but it was still amazing to see the reaction to it.
I can only imagine the energy that day!
Did you also have access to the Redmond event satellite feed?
@@LGRI'm having to think back almost 30 years, it was actually before the launch. Microsoft did a national promotional tour in the month prior. There was a demo showing the upgrade process and the features., mostly technical, not nearly as cringey as the Jay Leno/Bill Gates video. Everyone who came got to reserve a copy of the software but we still had a big line on launch day. I remember during the upgrade demo one of the guys turned the computer off and the other guy acted like he had destroyed the computer but of course it magically resumed the install when they powered it back on.
34:10 - When it comes to soft power switching and the "You can now turn off your computer" message, it was the opposite experience for me, as a kid. My mind was completely blown how the PC can _turn itself off._ Like, no need to press a button, it's just... it turns off! It seemed like a wild concept. Then again, I similarly enjoyed how you could open and close a CD tray through software.
Man I also remember being blown away by being able to turn the computer ON using the keyboard. I forget what combination of keys it was but had to enable it on bios
I'm still blown away by it!
I too was blown away when you could open and close the CD tray from a program. It felt like you were controlling a robot. You have to understand that controlling something physical through a button on screen was a powerful experience.🎉
Omg same exact reaction here. It was mind blowing at that time!
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I remember going to a launch party at Incredible Universe and it was, well, incredible! The excitement and energy in the crowd was so fantastic! My family didn’t “get it” and thought I was crazy going to a “party” at an electronics store. Windows 95 was everything that it was hyped to be. What an awesome memory. Thanks for the video!
I still remember when I was a kid and did the 95 upgrade on our family PC, because of course I knew more about the thing than my parents even at whatever young age. When the 95 boot screen came up, I remember running to get my parents, because "this is a historic moment!" I don't think they thought so. But the fact I still remember it says otherwise!
lol! Windows95 was the historic moment itself, like some scientific inventions or discoveries. Well sort of, because it is a product of a very intensive research.
@@ran2wild370 I mean, it did introduce the design model that every Windows version after has implemented in some way.
That error sound remix is why your channel is the best retro tech channel on TH-cam.
I don't think I've ever heard the actual MIDI music of 3D Pinball before.
This was such an amazing video! Thank you so much for creating it and for making us part of the opening experience.
That classic cloud loading intro of Windows 95 is still one of my favorites.
Same here! I had no idea there was music that would play in pinball. Apparently something was not configured correctly on my machine.
I had no idea it has music on it as well
Never heard it on Windows XP
@Lime that is possible, as I remember MIDI usually working properly everywhere else. How do you enable the music in 3D Pinball?
exactly my first thoughts as well! Cool music btw
I remember when this came out. I was 15 and my friend and I (working together today as developers) were interning at an office/computer store. When we unpacked disks we brought from home the store owner just said "I'm going to meet a client... thus I never saw anything." That night I upgraded at home. Good days
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Holy cow! I spent tens of hours in Space Cadet with XP and just now I learned that it had music. And such an awesome tune!
Thank you so much for your videos, Clint! They bring me so much joy in such... uneasy times. Hope everything will be alright in the coming times.
Damn yeah I never had any idea it was supposed to have music o.o
Hearing the music is almost off-putting with how many hours went into it without even knowing it had the option
This game is so nostalgic and comforting for me; especially the midi music. ......my highest score ever was 18 million points i think.
When my father's company upgraded their comouters to Windows 95, the old 386 units with MSDOS were put up for sale. Dad bought 2 and brought them home for my sister and I to learn how to to type and use a computer. So many good memories playing games like Crystal Caves and Duke Nukem!
Classic games, played them too.
I count myself fortunate to have lived through these times as a teenager, windows 95 was a huge change and then access to the internet blew my tiny mind. Thanks for the nostalgia trip 🙏
You bet, and likewise! That level of excitement over a danged _operating system_ upgrade is unthinkable now.
@@LGR Vista was the last exciting OS upgrade... a hard-learned lesson!
Yes... memories. When Win 95 came out, I had been rocking the final Beta version on my 486DX2-66 for about 6 months. When people from school were coming over, you should have seen their faces when they saw that I wasn't running 3.11 anymore!
I also upgraded off of a 66.. Also remember upgrading to the first pentiums around that time too only because of Duke nukem running at 1/4 of a frame per second.
But windows 3.11 and MS-DOS 6.2 was a wonderful start to computers I think
Thanks for your great channel! As a child of the 90s it is extremely fun to watch your videos! These almost always make me laugh! Especially when I think about what absurd accessories there were back then! For example, I had glasses that would transfer my head movement into games! The packaging sold it to me at the time as a life-changing gaming experience! In the end my PC and I were wired like a Borg and it still didn't work! You just had to get in touch with the technology back then! I miss that times so much! Thanks a lot for you and your great work! Best regards from Austria!
Thanks so much for your support! I hope you continue to enjoy the show :)
It ain't much but it's enough to say thanks for all that you do. AND You're absolutely right about the Windows 95 start up tune...it hits those nostalgic vibes hard. I miss those days...
I guess I should add my own Windows story to this. My very first ever PC was a 386. It had Windows 3.1 (that BARELY ran) so most of my gaming was done in DOS (it had some weird DOS O/S too). Games that I mostly played were Doom II, Warcraft 1, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, Indianapolis 500: The Simulation, Corridor 7, Battlechess, and a few others that I can't quite remember right now. Warcraft 1 was SO slow and had no sound (since I only had PC Speaker - which the game didn't support) but I didn't care, it was so damn amazing to play such a game, that I bared with it.
Windows 3.1 though - I had most fun with that playing the "After Dark" screensaver editor program. SO much fun. Otherwise, Windows was too slow on that system to do much else with it.
My very first time on the internet was with this machine - good ol'dial up - 14.4K. Freenet is what we had - it was free internet but with no HTML, no graphics, just text. Yet it somehow work just fine. I remember downloading games and installing them, the fact I could do this blew my mind back then. Games like Prince of Persia, Golden Axe, Commander Keen, etc. Also I played on a lot of BBS's.
Eventually this machine just died from overheating - we used it non-stop. Then we didn't see a new PC until maybe 2 years later when my Uncle gave us his hand-me-down Pentium II (Celeron). It was a massive improvement...anyway I could go on forever. The good ol'days.
Hi Clint, I dont have memories to Windows 95 as I was born in the 2000s but I love watching your stuff its somehow relaxing and calming for me, helps with anxiety, anyways I love your stuff!
So many memories. I love the plus pack.
Pointless fact, for the Da Vinci theme, Bill Gates actually licensed and scanned Da Vinci's original work to use as the background.
It's awesome.
Ooh really! I remember hearing how he bought some of his drawings for like 30 million back then.
@@LGR Yes! BG purchased the Codex Leicester, a volume of da Vinci's hand drawn/hand written scientific papers for $30M. It was named for the Earl of Leicester, whose estate owned the document until 1980, dating back to his purchase of it in 1717. Corbis released a CD-ROM title called "Leonardo da Vinci" that includes an interactive version of the Codex, complete with English translation.
I loved the DaVinci theme on plus, that’s neat!
Huh, how come this isn't Public Domain yet? Any classical musician is, right?
@@XYZ-pm3ju Public Domain doesn’t mean that the owner of the original is obligated to give you access. When old music enters public domain, you can freely reproduce it from whatever tape, CD, record. But whoever owns the masters will be able to make a much better reproduction than you ever could.
The nostalgia is real. I was like 10 when this came out and remember wanting it badly too. Always love your videos Clint. I got my fancy modern gaming rig these days, but I think I may have to make an old school build of my own sometime. I want to play some games as intended again. Emulation isn't the same. The 90s were a special time in history for many of us.
I got my first IT job just before 95 came out. As an IT professional, it was a godsend. It was so buggy and insecure, that I never had to worry about not having a job.
LGR, my family and I are praying for you and yours during your time recovering from the storm. May God bless you and keep you safe and sound. I hate that your collection was damaged but I'm so glad to hear everyone is OK.
We jumped from 3.11 on a 486 to Windows 98SE on A P2 266 with MMX. It was mind blowing since it had DVD support. A lot of the edutainment we had ran perfectly fine on the 486 with CD players, what blew out mind though was the 98SE computer had a DVD drive and we bought DVD movies to watch on the family computer connected to the TV. Wild times.
The wording of your comment implies that you no longer have a computer hooked up to your TV. I can tell you this much: You haven't *lived* until you've tried PC gaming on a modern 4K 120Hz OLED. Even the desktop is an exciting experience on a massive display, even if it's just a regular old 1080p60 screen. You should try it.
I loved that "Inside your computer" theme so much back then. Used to think it was so cool that looking at my desktop I could "see" what's in my computer. I think I ended up settling on the space theme though. I loved the sounds that went with that. Not sure if that was 95 or 98.
You're right, it was 95! I'm 99% sure that particular theme was part of the 95 Plus! pack
Space was definitely part of the '95 Plus pack. It was my favorite of the included themes. I loved the sounds as well, and actually have it set right now on my Win 98 retro PC.
This Computer has grown over the years just like the channel. A magnificent machine. Keep up the content.
Eight years old and going stronger than ever! Thanks for sticking around :)
My first computer was an Acer Aspire with windows 95 in 1995. I remember The Rolling Stones commercial. I also 3 years later when windows 98 came out which was Also hyped big time. I bought it the release date. The start menu was so innovative that when they tried to remove it (windows 8) everyone complained. Thanks for the nostalgia, Clint.
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My first computer was an NEC Versa laptop with Windows 3.1. It's how I discovered Doom.
This is totally the era I'm so nostalgic about! Back in the late 90's we only had an Amiga 500, but all my friends had various other systems. One of the most influencial was this guy who had a Windows95 system. I saw that PS/2 or serial Microsoft mouse on the background (original install screen of Win95, maybe the actually had a mouse like that, I'm not sure), they even had Microsoft Plus! installed too and holy hell, you finally showed off the Duke Nukem Screensavers, I'm so happy that you finally touched on this, I saw that screensaver set there too. I saw and played Duke Nukem 3D first there, and my user name is that for a reason :) Saw and played Lode Runner, Need for Speed 3, Quake, Incubation - Battle Isle Phase IV, Networkd Q Rac Rally at this friend's place. Every single game was so... determinative? Maybe this is not the right word. I think this was a Pentium 1 system because it could run Quake. I'm still a fan of that era and still a fan of NFS3, Duke3D and Quake to this day, thanks to these wonderful times at this buddy's place. Thanks for making this video! :D
Going from Windows 3.1 to Win 95 was mind blowing for its user interface! My family was able to fully use the computer without doing DOS prompts and those hidden icons!
That computer looks really clean LGR man. You put a lot of TLC into that
Thank you!
So much nostalgia… and so many things I haven’t thought about in nearly 30 years.
Thank you, my friend.
We started to get Windows 3.11 PC's in my last year of high school, but my best friend sold me his Packard Bell with Windows 95. So Windows 95 was the first PC I owned. I don't remember the specs, but it was slow. It was used, and it was a mess. All I wanted was to play Sim City, and that it did just fine.
I had no idea about how computers worked and I was way too frightened to touch what I didn't understand in case I broke it. Just installing a programme would give me anxiety. I heard my friends talking about 386 and 486 and DOS, and not having a clue what any of it meant.
It wasn't until I bought a Windows 7 PC after the computer I had before it stopped working, that I finally cracked the old one open to see what it was all about. So naïve was I, I couldn't have pointed to a single thing and told you what it was. I did some research. I even fixed it and then wanted to know more. I've spent the last decade working back through the PC eras filling in the gaps in my knowledge and fitting it to the memories I have.
I am roughly the same age as the 8088 and to think that all this has been done in my lifetime just flat out amazes me. Ironically, had the Internet been more of a thing when I had that Windows 95 Packard Bell, I would have known sooner how much joy computers would bring me, and my life probably would have taken a very different path to the one that it did.
However, building, repairing, and learning about PC's is just a hobby and I thank TH-camrs like yourself for making such a huge contribution to that. Everyone that makes access to this old stuff so easy is truly awesome.
I honestly had no idea that 3d pinball HAD music until now!😅
Same! Glad im not the only one lol.
Yep, didn’t know either. And just an FYI, looks like the music is also part of the Steam Deck flat pack version.
Same, kinda want to go back and play it with the music if it's possible through a vm
Same! I also didn't know it existed prior to XP even though I used 98 for years and a little of 95
same here!
My god, what a throwback. My family got our first computer in November of 95. It was a Compaq Presario 9546. I went with my Dad to Incredible Universe and CompUSA getting software and accessories. I was 9 and my previous computer experience at the time was with Win 3.11 and various Apple/Macintosh systems. Really exciting time with all the newfangled multimedia. I spent hours playing DK's "The Way Things Work", Encarta 95, MechWarrior 2, Aces of the Deep and bunch of DOS games. Thanks for taking us back Clint!
Incredible Universe was heaven.
When I upgraded our 486 from 3.1 it wasn't just a task, it was a event, installing it and the anticipation of using the new system was as much exciting as using it. I miss those days
Me too! Great memories.
I remember the excitement when I first upgraded to windows 95 on our 486, for some reason I was hyped for the feature that you could have folders in folders on the desktop! Definitely the future of computing!
I still remember the day I upgraded my family pc to Windows 95 as a 14 year old - it really was very exciting at the time
3:51 somewhere in the background is that dastardly hurricane tree 🤬
I know it's off topic but looking at your video gives me memories of playing my NES and Sega... listening to cassette tapes and finally cds... it was a good time. Thank you
Man the memories of 95.
I still remember the windows 95 computer my parents had in the office of our house.
Watching this made me so nostalgic.
I remember being so worried about breaking something that I only ever typed win at the dos prompt to get to w95... It felt so much more safe and inviting my comparison.
Fitting Windows onto 13 floppy disks is actually pretty impressive in my opinion.
Yep, Distribution Media Format (DMF) helped. The extra 240KB per disk adds up.
That'd be what... 20 MB? For an entire OS with a GUI, plus some included apps and whatnot. We use 20 MB for a photo nowadays.
@@ironcito1101 Remember that a Google Search uses more power than an entire Apollo mission.
The marketing push for 95 was insane! I worked at a duplication facility in London (UK) and we didn't sleep for 2 days producing hundreds of broadcast Beta SP/Digibetas for the whole of Europe and the Middle East.
Hearing that Stones' song sends a shiver down my spine!
Great nostalgia trip, Clint. Thank you. I remember my uncle installing Windows 95 Upgrade, CD-ROM version, on multiple computers across the family before pesky Internet verification was a thing. I don't think we had Internet Explorer, but Netscape instead, and it's wild to think you would have had to pay $25 extra for that back then. But I do recall him also getting the Plus pack and sinking hours into the games and such included with it.
I still remember upgrading my old PC to win95, was super excited by every small new thing it had, I got the Plus! CD shortly after with all the crazy themes and stuff... but I was blown away when I got the command and conquer RedAlert domination pack at some Christmas that came with even more themes for windows!
A fun fact that I learned from a tech guy on 96' was that you could do a clean install using the upgrade disk by doing some CLI magic I forgot long time ago.
My dad worked for a Microsoft partnered consultancy company in the '90s and so we got Windows 95 and the Plus! pack for free. We definitely ran it on a 486 initially, with a Sound Blaster Pro. Some of our first Win 95 games were 3D Movie Maker, Deadly Tide, Monster Truck Madness, and The Neverhood. We also had free dialup internet access through his company's private ISP. I was downloading DOS shareware left and right, from sites like Happy Puppy.
God. Shareware on Happy Puppy. Remembering doing the same with my dad.
Back in the mid 90s, I remember trying to squeeze every bit of drive space and memory out of my 486DX-33. When I upgraded from 4mb to 8mb, I felt like a million bucks because I did it myself.
My first upgrade was from 8 to 32 MiB of EDO RAM to go with my Cyrix 586 100 MHz. It was supposed to match a Pentium 75, but Quake sure proved that wrong. In any case, it wasn’t until that upgrade that I reinstalled Windows 95; two years prior I decided to downgrade to DOS 6.22 and 3.11. I still have my original OEM Win95 CD-ROM.
Did you ever traumatize yourself with Doublespace?
@@aziztcf I considered trying out compression, I remember, but never saw the need when I later uploaded to a massive 3 GB hard drive. 7.9 milliseconds - it was blazingly fast!
as a young kid i was lucky enough to open a brand new boxed version of both windows 95 and windows 98
the experience still sticks with me today, sure there were a bunch of other good games that were awesome to unbox like starcraft... diablo... tomb raider
i still remember the whole process of trying to figure out how to get it installed... that iconic installer with its animations and sounds
cracking open an OS box was always a different kind of excitement, knowing that the very base of your computer was about to be updated to a new experience was a special kind of time
My first computer was a Pentium II 233 MHZ with Windows 95 a Expert Color 32 bit graphics card and a Sound Blaster. It was a custom build computer that my dad paid $2000 for back in 1996 or 1997 and remembering my dad's frustration in just a couple of years time our computer was already outdated. Upgraded it once to a Pentium III 450 MHZ with Windows ME and a Pure 3D 3DFX card.
11:50 That added in fart broke me LOL
At school there were a lot of Pentium 2s with Windows 95 and someone put Midtown Madness on all of them and if we did all the work in class we had a LAN party the remaining time :) Also Worms Armageddon!
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Your school was awesome!
Midtown madness!
Dude I just discovered your channel this week but I'm BINGING.
All the hardware and software I wanted when I was young, but couldn't obtain because.... I was just a kid, like you
Heck yeah dude. Hope you continue to enjoy!
That Win95 intro sound though 👌
My first PC was an IBM Aptiva 95, with Win95 plus a bundle pack of other programs like Encarta 95 and games like Caesar II, my first browser was Netscape Navigator. We bought it from a big box retailer (Makro), it was a pretty sweet deal back in early 96, I was 9 years old at the time, that PC stayed with us until 2002 when we upgraded to a WinXP PC, another amazing OS.
I memorized my Windows 95 CD key 25 years ago. To this day, I still know it. The nostalgia from this OS is just...something else.
15895-OEM-0001411-51565 was mine. Still also burned in my brain. I also found out that the serial verification scheme would allow for 0002822 instead of 0001411 dunno why :D
Incredible memory
I had to reinstall so often I did the same :)
But forgot.
It was a great POS.
@@marcosalves4890 There was a math question about multiples or additions of 7, IIRC.
We could write about anything.
@@marcosalves4890 Finally, a key I can use to install Windows 95 to my brand new PC - I was getting tired of using FreeDOS + Windows 3.1 😛 I'm so going to use this for evil! 😝
That NFS menu music always gives me chills. Such a masterpiece of its time
Remember my dad bringing this home the day it came out. It truly felt like the future was here.
I remember doing this upgrade on my family's first PC, a Tandy, from 3.1 to 95. I spent way to much time play HOVER! and "edutainment" games like Math Blaster. This was a great stroll down memory lane.
The 486 build was how I found and sub'ed to LGR. Great to see it again as a star of an episode!
Thanks for sticking around!
I can't describe how satisfying this video is to watch. It's oddly heartwarming, familiar, comforting and nostalgic. it was like traveling in time. Thanks
Windows 95 was my first OS experience; my dad brought home the work laptop and had it connected to a CRT in our basement. I vividly remember playing many, many games (mostly Reader Rabbit and the like, I was a kid). It was shortly upgraded to 98, but that was a formative memory for me.
Having been 13yrs old and elbow deep in tech thanks to my father, it was an awesome time for EVERYTHING! Music and Technology was just pure bliss 🤘
LGR I remember the hype and buying Windows 95 that very day. The cool thing about version A of 95 was being able to run every dos game I had. I was able to adjust the upper memory address to keep as much of the 640k extended capacity . Later versions 95 B and C took more address space away. Good times and I want to install a legacy build like i remembered. Have fun man!
Fresh woodgrain, fresh OS. Party like it's 1995! 😎🍿
Wow you really took a bullet for us going to the Windows 95 upgrade route on a 486. Brings so much memories back. Yeap I was one of the poor bloke who had a 486 66Mhz and then upgrade it to Win 95 using the floppy disks. Got the same experience you got with the games playing slow. Broke down and got a Cyrix 5x86 chip and make sure to get Win 95 in a CD. Such a big change going from Win 3.1 to 95.
I still remember when we got our Win95 machine, it was such a huge upgrade over our previous IBM clone. Me and my brother went straight from playing ASCII only door/BBS games to stuff like Warcraft 2 and Crusader.
Having actual sound was nice too since I could hook it up to my grandfather's old stereo receiver and annoy everyone with tracker tunes I downloaded off of AOL. (using either MOD4Win or CubicPlayer)
Oh, so many memories....
Great video brought back a flood of memories. I remember lining up at for the midnight launc of windows 95 outside of a Computer City in Las Vegas NV. It was crazy they had a band playing inside the store. It was a real event. I also recall buying Windows 95 plus the same night. Everytime I hear that Weezer song it makes me feel old and I'm only 51. Love the windows 95 content and love the PC Jr content.
I had 3.11 for a while and then visited a friend's house whose father had 95. We went to play some games on the PC and I was like "WHAT IS THAT?!" He proceeded to give me a two-minute rundown of the Start Menu, where everything was, etc. I was hooked, and I then taught my dad when we upgraded. Thanks Raymond!
I definitely remember the huge hype surrounding the launch of Win 95. It probably wasn't until the following year, but I remember being super excited to install it on my Gateway 486 SX 33 MHz PC with 4 megabytes of RAM. It ran like crap, but I was so happy to be part of the this new advancing technology I didn't really care, lol.
The fact you name your machines is actually useful. Woodgrain, mega-monster, it's like these PCs are people you meet at parties you haven't seen in a while.
I haven't heard that start up sound in about 16 years. It's soothing in a way I didn't expect.
Thank you for taking the time to install my favorite operating system of all time. Look at it go! Good stuff, Clint. I used 95 on my dad's computer around when it came out, just to play some HE titles and The Way Things Work. Eventually, I got my own AST 486 in '96 and spent hours playing around in MS Paint, opening as many windows as I could at once. LEGO Island was too much for my AST, so I had to use my dad's computer to play it. Eventually, I got his computer as a hand-me-down, after it got 98 installed on it, and the AST made its way to the trash. Decades later, I dug up the exact same model on ebay, and I find myself installing 95 in so many varieties on all sorts of hardware to enjoy the wonders it provides.
Thanks for making this video Clint! I was 12 when win95 came out, and my dad installed it on his 486, which later became my 486. Used that thing till early 1999. The gaming situation is so recognisable, forget running anything post ‘96-ish on a rig like that. But man, it was magical, felt like we stepped into some kind of fresh future!
This video brought back so many happy memories, and watching you play Doom on Windows 95 reminded me the countless hours we spent with my cousins during weekends and holidays doing just that!
Dude this was a trip down memory lane, wouzers you realy nailed it.
Hey Clint! Great video and I'm excited of learning that you have the same kind of memories I had as a kid (maybe around same time), you know, like an uncle with a brand new pc and you being so surprised every second you played with it.. Yeah, that's just about the kind of memories I have and that I try to share with brazilian audiences through my YT channel as well (a very small one, I must say), your channel is my main inspiration but I lack your unique sense of humor, great editing capabilities and everything that made you the best "retro pc" channel in the world. I really expect this compliment to reach you although I don't ever think you will ever be able to answer my comment as I know that you receive quite a lot of comments every single day, but I really do wish you to keep doing well and hopefully, making videos. Thank you for all your work which gave me many many hours I spent traveling through time with you. See ya.
The error sound loop mixed with the beat cracked me up, brilliant 😀
14:40
Oh man this is my childhood. I should probably not have been playing Doom when I was like 8 but oh well.
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Windows 95 was really a truly revolutionary piece of software if you were a PC user. About that rollback to win3.11 - I actually tried it. A friends dad was non too impressed with 95 so we rolled back to 3.11 and it worked quite well as I remember it
Somehow, when I installed few times Win95 the installer asked if I want Win95 UI or I prefer using Program Manager and Win3.1 UI. I am not sure if that was on a new install or upgrade. And yes, I used once Win95 with Win3.1 Program Manager as UI just to se how was like. And if I remember correctly there was an entry in system.ini (or was it on win.ini?) where one could put any program instead of explorer.exe as UI. I used windows commander sometimes and was hilarious to see friends looking confused to my "WinCommander95" OS.
The sad thing is that OS/2 had been around for several years, able to run Windows software but people dealt with unstable Windows 3.1 for years ignorant of its existence.
@@stepheneickhoff4953 OS/2 was quite a bit more expensive, wasn't preinstalled (due to Microsoft's uncompetitive practices), and thus lacked the economies of scale in these and other ways. The OS/2 developer kit was mighty expensive, while the one(s) by Microsoft was free.
Its always a great day when Clint uploads a video!
I upgraded my dad's IBM Aptiva Pentium 75 without telling him. Win 95 upgrade CD were sent out on mail by IBM and I needed it to have Win 95 to be able to play C&C. Upgrade process worked flawlessly. Still remember the drum and two sticks playing on it. 16 years old and obsessed by computers. Sweet memories.
My family got our first computer in 95. I was so excited when my mum said we would be getting a computer. Was disappointed when she came home with a DOS computer from the late 80s. Now I am glad she did, because it I feel in love with older tech and older games. Still have that old computer. It no longer runs but would like to try and get it operational again one day.
So much nostalgia. I love the fact you made improvised some '90s trance from the looping sound effect!
Clint, I've never really been very interested in older tech like this since I was born too late to experience much of it. Thanks for sharing stuff like this in such an informative way! Also seeing Jennifer Aniston along with windows 95 is hilarious.
Gotta wonder if she has any memory of that at all, haha. I can imagine just going through the script on cruise control.
This is bringing back good memories of the Windows 95 computer my parents had between ~95 and 2000. I remember playing hover from the Windows 95 disk, enjoyed the crap out of that game. Before that I'd only played DOS 2D games. I also remember when I got a game that didn't run due to too little memory, so we went to the city centre to buy more. We got an 8 mb stick, upgrading the system to 16 mb total! Good times.
I still remember installing windows 95 for the first time... and the included music video with Edie Brickell. Totally night and day from win 3.1. I was working in a computer store at the time, building PCs, and we installed so many versions of windows 95 back then.
First used it on my aunt's Compaq Presario CDS-524, nice little "all in one" model with tiny speakers. Been trying to hunt down one since she got rid of it ages ago! Loved the video!!
My first computer was a hand me down from my uncle. Windows 95 started it all. Then I started to use my grandmothers win 98 se laptop and she was very computer savvy and got me really into computers. I now run my own IT consulting company - it all starts with that little "spark"
god so much fun man, I remember installing on disk in a high school class around '97 took me ages, but want to do it again for sure!
Our first family computer had Win95 on it, cost us ~$4500 at the time as it was "top of the line" at the time. I learned so much on that computer as well as how to use the internet. I still have such fond memories of that machine to this day.
Wow what brand was it? Only an actual IBM PC should cost that much maybe
@@trashyraccoon2615 It was a generic beige box, but I remember we got absolutely everything at the time. Dot matrix colour printer, modem, 1.2GB hdd, cd-rom and sound card. This was also in AUD so wouldve be closer to $3000-3200USD at the time.
Our first computer in 1995 or 96 was a black IBM Aptiva with 200mhz Pentium, 3.2GB HDD, CD and floppy, dial-up modem, sound card, monitor with built-in speakers, and printer for $3,500 USD from Radio Shack.
It was top of the line at the time too. But that didn't last for long because technology was advancing so rapidly at that time. I still have a lot of great memories from that machine.
@@SuperNoticer it was 1996, pentium 200 was last pentium 1 classical processor. came in mid '96.
I loved this episode, I'm pretty sure I haven't heard the Sierra intro since 20 years ago. Also, I didn't spect you talking about Windows 95 plus! that was a must-have to get the full experience.
Best 95 error and remix of said error ever. You should post a video of that remix on your channel that would be pretty cool.
I remember when my dad brought home our windows 95 pc, it was built by Datel which is a local computer company that our previous 486 was also built by. Seeing a pc with a CD rom and speakers was so cool. Upgrading from a 14" shamrock monitor to a big 17" sony was really nice too. It really felt like such a huge upgrade over the old system
Just watched the entire video, it was an amazing time travel, where I could finally see how the Windows 95 Install packages looked like! For me Windows 95 was the first ever OS I used when I was a kid (alongside MS-DOS), and I have fond memories of that! I remember the joys of listening to MID files through the OPL3 sound chip (I was gathering as many MID files as I could), browsing through the shovelware and magazine cover CDs (that made me discover some nice shareware stuff, including Warcraft 2). Fun times!
The fact that the full retail version of Windows 95 was released on like 20+ floppies when you consider how unreliable those can be long-term is just incredible. I remember trying to install it from floppies and it failed every time, then I just gave up and asked my parents for a CD-ROM drive for xmas, and that was my first disc drive.
39:38 That Age of Empires CD has a mighty right-click menu! Never seen so many installation shortcuts. Impressive!
Microsoft really didn't mess around when it came to their own software! 95 supports fancy right click menus? They're taking ALL the advantage of it.
Your channel is my favorite “asmr” haha. There’s something so relaxing about all these retro machines
Thank you for a great video, a road down memory lane. 1995 I had a 486 SX/33 - a chip made by UMC, called "Green CPU". It was "overclockable" to 40MHz by just altering the bus speed from 33MHz to 40MHz. It had 4MB RAM when I got it from my grandparents, but upgraded the RAM with a 16MB stick, it was crazy expensive for a 15 year old at the time, like 250 dollar or so. Then also adding a Soundblaster 16 + a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive. At the time, me and my friend longed for Windows 95 and we came over a "demo" version of it, if I recall correctly is was on two floppys. It was a preview and it showed the desktop and start menu. I remember sitting at my computer, amazed by this preview! Later I got Windows 95 to run on the computer, but it crashed running at 40MHz, so I hardwired the jumper to the turbo button, making it quite risky if someone tried to press it, I don't know what would happen if you changed the bus speed when the system was running, but handy when I wanted to play DOS games. I just turned the machine of and then pressed the turbo button. I still have the computer, but changed the motherboard after a battery leak.
I worked for an IT company back then, DOS 5.5 was the way to go. And then suddenly things started to happen. Great video, so many things that I already forgot about.
My most noteworthy memory of Windows 95 was that it was the OS we had when my dad first signed up for AOL (and in fact, he signed up for AOL shortly after upgrading our Compudyne to Windows 95). We had AOL 3.0 first, followed by 3.0A, and we eventually upgraded all the way to 5.0 when it came out (we skipped 4.0 entirely).
Oh yeah, and... He bought the floppy upgrade even though our computer had a CD-ROM drive. I'll never understand why.
@@HeadsetGuy because it was cheaper i guess
@@pankoza Probably.