Something about the visuals of the old Windows versions is making it so beautiful and well ordered at the same time. There is no real visual bloat which distracts you too much like nowadays.
U to vreme grafika nije imala tu i takvu ulogu kao što je ima danas.Mada kad se setim tog vremena prelazak sa 16bit ne grafičke verzije na 32 bitnu delovalo je skoro pa nestvarno u vizuelnom smislu ☺
They started stripping and blocking stuff after win98se. Before that anything seemed like a technological advancememt. Aftrr w98se for me windows is not anymore a technology update but traditional monopoly.
You clearly never had someone run ping -l 65535 on your IP address Also clear into Windows 98 there was a memory leak in explorer.exe that would eventually crash any system left online.
@@Lilithe until ~win7 the i know there was ie memory crear problem, which doesnt erase alloxated memory even on lots of different clearing ways, so after lots of memory allocations from js it simply goes out of memory which in general system is stuck or not responsive.
So many good memories with this OS. Everything was precious including listening music in winamp, downloading 3-5MB mp3 files via 5kbps dial-up connections, exchanging game CD’s with friends and playing Red Alert, Duke Nukem, Warcraft and so many others.. Good old days..
Yeah, it sucked. Having to name everything FILES~01.DOC. Good luck finding the file you're looking for. Imagine how many times people accidentally overwrote important files by making a tiny mistake.
MISTAKE - left here for reference - Long file name support together with 'big' hard disk support, IE anything over 1.2Gb (I think it was 1.2 GB) and some other bits came with Win 3.11 (aka wfw) it it was originally sold as an office / work environment add on. NEW TEXT FOLLOWS - I apologize. I believe I may have confused win 3.11 with NT 3.1. My first PC was a second hand machine that had been used a computer OEM's office. I only had the OS for about a week before I was given the promised Win 95 CD. Itis strange how things get fixed in your mind till you yourself believe them true.
Cesare Vesdani windows never looked great, but I get what you mean. ;) it was nice to experience many of the features win95 brought at that time. Today, we like it for its nostalgic feeling.
Faldegast I really appreciate your through and analytical answer. Especially, the fact that you brought up the subject of Linux experience with different DEs or WMs. Yes, I agree with the point that at that time at Microsoft they put effort in R&D to deliver a more scientific implementation of human interactions mechanics (e.g. UI or games like minesweeper, Freecell etc.) even introduce us to the GUI and new ways of interfacing with computers as every day tools (for ex. using the mouse) . But there were many issues too. Ranging from performance issues to how different developers reacted to the new graphical environment. (I know it’s not totally Microsoft ‘s fault but it impacted the overall UX heavily.) Finally, I’m so happy that you have transitioned to Linux (POSIX) world too. I did the same last year (moved from Mac to Linux) and had a whole year of adventure and discovery. Btw, I really like to move to FreeBSD but it’s not as simple as moving to GNU/Linux world - mainly because if their policies that are in favour of an enterprise-level usage and some limitations on DRM content accessibility. Bests.
Windows 95 gives me strong nostalgia. Rearranging and organizing the folders in the Start menu, the flying paper animation while moving and copying files, Space Pinball, playing the stock MIDI files (Brandenburg Concerto), the wizards, yellow tooltips, the window style, the sky behind the logo...
@@smitajky it came along with the PC our family bought at the time. this was just before Windows XP was released unfortunately, so XP just wasnt available yet. Needless to say we went and bought it later on. I still remember how those ppl we bought XP from tried to convince us that perhaps we should buy brand new PC instead, even when the problem clearly wasnt with our brand new PC, but because ME was so fucking unstable and piss poor operating system.
I'm feeling so nostalgic! I still vividly remember attending the local official Microsoft 95 launch at the Grand Hotel in Calcutta, India. I worked in the IT department of a local company back then and was so excited to get my hands on a copy of Win95. I've still got the launch T-Shirt somewhere!
This video brought back so many memories of my childhood it wasnt even funny, thank you so much for making a 25yr tribute, it really made me good remembering the good old days. Here's hoping we get another os just as memorable as win 95
Dan your the man.. You just took me back to thinking my time being at secondary school omg lol coming to my secondary school all the computers would have be booked hourly slots man they were the days. Life was good back then thank you mate
Windows 95 allows the use of the parallel port; windows 10 doesn’t. That’s why so many old CNC machines still run on computers with insanely outdated operating systems.
@@among-us-99999 True, and my company has one real old CNC machine with a Commodore Computer only 1 man can repair, and that is the engineer who build it in 1985. That machine is nearly as old as me and works quite well.
I was at the Phoenix launch event in 1995 and got a "I was There at the START" sun shade for my car. I used it for over 10 years... This was finally an operating system that was as useful as my Amiga that I had used for 7 years before that. Microsoft finally caught up...
The "Weezer fan" at Microsoft was actually Bill Gates himself. I don't remember how I learned that but it was a fun thing to make fun at when I was 16.
Thanks so much for the RetroZilla tip, Dan. As much as I love my Win 95 installation, lack of TLS support has been maddeningly frustrating. You've made my day. Gonna go try it now. Also, of note. Microsoft removed the Buddy Holly video from subsequent release CDs (OSR 2.x etc). Goodtimes is still there though. Their licensing agreement with Weezer's label must have run out. Sad.
Fantastic video, Dan and special memories, so thank you! I remember my dad and I going into a computer store (in St Albans, Herts UK?) around release time. The shop was packed and the buzz around Windows 95 was incredible. They were demo'ing the programme, it looked impressive so we enquired about it. We owned a 386 (33mhz) PC with 4mb of RAM and were told by the salesman it would struggle to run on our computer!! Top marks for his honesty!
Your Windows 95 version is either OSR 2.5 or you installed Internet Explorer 4.0's Shell UI and Active Desktop feature. The huge "My Computer" left pane text was introduced by IE 4 (which OSR 2.5 installs). This wasn't present on Windows 95's original version. (I thought it ruined an otherwise extremely functional shell, even if I was on the team that produced it.)
yes :) I hated 98 because of that integrated IE in to GUI, but fortunately there is a 98 lite that can remove this crap and use original 95 GUI, but unfortunately many program refuse to work with 95 shell forced to 98 www.litepc.com/98lite.html
Ok, so that explains why it looks so weirdly. Curiously enough - I never saw it like that, maybe because IE4 wasn't really needed given that Internet was very expensive in my area at the time. And yes! Windows 95 shell was great, and Win 98 (and XP later) destroyed it with this IE-like style of file exploring.
I was disappointed that he didn't go into detail on the specific version he was using. If he added IE4 (I don't remember if that was included in Plus!) to Win95A, then he really screwed up, it really did some weird things to the OS and I warned people to never install it. Oh, I think IE3 was included in Plus! The original IE was pretty much unusable as a browser. Or there was Win95B OSR2 - without IE4 or With IE4 (Win95D I think?), but were not retail and could only be purchased installed (OEM) on a new computer (part) or you worked at a computer store. Installing IE4 on that basically just turned it into Win98 with inferior USB support. Basically, the only version that was ever worth a shit was 95B OSR2 (without IE4) or XP SP1 (or 2, original XP was bundled with the messenger exploit). Win95A had some serious problem that I don't remember now, something to do with long file name support or something, but forced me to "illegally" install the B version. I never had to use 98 and never had to deal with the IE4 integration. It was right from 95 to XP and then to Win7 and it stops there. Oh, and I don't remember looking at the "With Internet Explorer" every day on my computer, or the Outlook Express was certainly never there on my desktop. But I think that actually came with Office at some point, so that's probably how it got installed. Point is, really, if you want to see what Windows 95 can do, you got to go with 95B even if it was never "official" - it was included on new computers for a couple years.
Windows versions are like layers, every icon is still in the system files that have not changed, I found the style of 3.1 not just on moricons.dll, but on various libs. Same you can find XP styled icons, mydocs from windows 2000, some hardware drivers and control panels packing win7 /vista icons. and that jdbgmgr.exe bear. always there, for some reason I'm leaving it alone.
Those were the days! I remember my computer company that dealt with “legacy” IBM iron mostly. We got a job with installing a PC network on a near by university campus and roping all these discreet IBM clones to an Ethernet topology using NT servers and Windows 95 clients. It was truly a fun gig. I remember my socks getting literally blown off as this campus was part of the internet backbone. My office alone were still on a stupid 96K dial-up.
I was just a kid, but i remember using DOS to run my games. When my dad brought this home, my mind EXPLODED. I had no idea who had to sell there soul to create such a beautiful thing, but i was thankful. Great video. Really took me back.
💿 Great video, mate cheers!!! I remember getting 95 as it opened up a whole new world of gaming! I think i clogged my hard drive up in 2 days with all the cover cds from the magazines lol, aaahhh those were the days 💿
Dan, that ISO for Adobe Premiere 5.1 is for the Macintosh. I'm downloading 4.2 to see if that's Windoze 95 compatible and will update if it is - keep up the good work👍
I remember having my windows 3.11 computer back in the 90s. One weekend I was visiting the family property north of Rockhampton. For whatever reason I was poking around in the family car and under the front seat was a sealed boxed copy of Windows 95. I was instantly excited for my computing future when I found it.
Personally, I'll always have a soft spot for Windows 3.1 / 3.11. As a kid playing games on my Aunt's computer in the early 90's, MS-DOS and Windows pre-95 was my window to a whole bunch of fun. Good times!
I was far too young at the time to interpret what OS was what, but this video made me realize that I had some tiny degree of experience with windows 3.1. It was an old tossed PC that I found on the curb as a kid. Then I forgot how much I actually did use win95, until I heard the boot sound @ 6:55 Holy crap, did that open some ancient memories.
Hey Dan, I was still using an A1200 PowerPC right up until 1997/98. I skipped all the fun of Win95 and went straight to Win98 with Unreal 1 and Fallout 1. Miss the old days. Thanks for the awesome video!
• 8:40 - And the MSN CD had a copy of Edie Brickell's "Good Times" music-video, as well as a custom video of a bespoke song for MSN. These music-videos were amazing back then. How quaint it seems now that technology has blasted so far ahead. • 10:25 - 😂 Bill's face speaks volumes: "Sure… 👀 Maybe I should look more into it if even a talk-show host is talking about it. 🤔" • 12:05 - Bill's face speaks volumes again: "oh crap, oh crap, oh crap! I can't believe this is really happening! oh crap, oh crap!" • 18:25 - Now do it with Arachne for DOS… • 19:19 - I remember sitting on my bed and installing Windows 95 from 153 floppy disks on a 486 with VGA and SB which was a big upgrade from our previous 286 Tandy. Seeing that blue-purple bubble background when it was done was a thrill.
I learnt programming for business on Windows 95, MS Access, VB6 etc back in 2000, then programmed for office users from 2000 until 2017. Most of the OS and Office upgrade I was forced to do to only felt like a re-invention of the wheel as far as what was needed for the average business user, and in fact most programs for business were just broken for the sake of upgrades, and provided earnings for people like me to fix them. Sure personal and specialized computing has gone through the roof compared to then, even what my tablet can do is mind blowing, but the bulk of workers who use these OS's are just doing spreadsheets, making Word Documents and Email as before, and the real work of turning System processes into stable business programs is so great that many programs are still ancient and doing just fine.
I remember I was in middle school in 1995, and we had Apple IIe computers lining the room of my first computer class. We were learning how to type (which I already knew how to do). One day, we had a substitute teacher and she played some promotional material and a demo for Windows 95. It was really the first time I felt wowed by what a computer could do. It was the first time I saw a computer with the ability to have photo-quality pictures, audio that wasn't just chiptunes or really poor samples, and video playing - on a home computer! I heard about the internet a few years later, and then... well, my path was set before me. And now I have a copy of the Petzold "Programming Windows 95" book on my desk, and I am learning Win32 and Winsock programming for shits and giggles.
Maybe you will be interested in obscure but very nice little programming language - "Pure Basic". www.purebasic.com/ It's not Visual Basic - it produces very small and fast binaries and fun to program with. I played with it for like 10-20 minutes :-)
Windows 95 was my first Windows and has a special place in my heart. Sure I had played with Windows 3.11 at friends and of course i had used MS DOS and other early operating systems. But Windows 95 was the first time I was truly fascinated. I only regret not having tried Mac OS earlier. I started late with OSX Lion and used both Windows and Mac in parallel until 2020. With the release of macOS 11 Monterey that also came with new Mac hardware (ARM RISC) and Windows having gone in a direction I did not approve, i switched solely to Mac for good.
It was an ok operating system, but not my favorite. But when it crashed; that thing was a real nightmare, and sometimes made me rip my hair or hit my head.
Agreed. It was unpredictable and it really didn't tell you a lot to go by as to what went wrong. For all you know, even running A program could upset it.
Windows 95 felt like it complimented (or helped spearhead) the next generation of computers and users. The $2000 sweet spot price got you a tower with recommended specs, a CRT monitor, speakers and maybe a simple inkjet printer. An investment for any individual or family, but with the right financial planning, this was the time people who may never have felt the need to have a computer....wanted a computer. Playing Doom, surfing with AOL, MS Office composition turned this from being a "nerd tool" to a luxury family accessory. It was a pain to support, buggy as heck, but it made computers fun. Thank You Windows 95. It was a time of rapid change as the tech world was racing to Y2K and it's nice to slow down now to fondly remember the simple times of the home PC market. "It is now safe to turn off your computer".
I did not have a CD drive when i first ran windows 95, i installed with 1.44 3.5 floppy drives. was an adventure to say the least. took for ever to install.
Not only that it was huge it was slow as snailS and the wosrt part is if you of the floppy disks fail to broke well tough luck because You will stuck in limbo as results most people created backups to prevent that.
To me, the most significant success of Windows 95 was acting as a bridge to get users onto 32-bit multitasking computing, which came to fruition with Windows 2000 when the OS was essentially Windows NT, whereas earlier versions still booted on top of DOS. It was a remarkable feat, and enabled a smooth transition to a modern OS.
The little drumsticks hitting a red and white drum -- "waiting" animation -- evidently started in Chicago at least, and lasted a very very ling time afterwards.
I remember upgrading from Windows 3.11 to 95. It was the most positive OS upgrade for me, back in the days when a new version of an OS was something to look forward to rather than the dread it tends to bring now.
The first time I saw W95 it totally blew my mind, now W8 and W10 is kind of disappointment. Maybe Windows should die and be replaced with something better.
@@danielgomez7236 In my opinion, 8 is better. No damaging updates and less bloatware. ui is kinda inconsistent for new users. also, no candy crush pre-installed.
The one thing I loved about operating systems back in the day is when it told you when it’s Daylight Savings time and when it changed the clock ahead, instead of the computers doing it automatically nowadays and confusing me.
Ahh Windows 95. When I was young, my Father owned a Desktop PC with Windows 95. I have fond memories of playing video games on it. Lego games like Lego Island and Lego Rock Raiders, Age of Empires and Age of Empires II, I Spy CD Roms, and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? I even enjoyed watching my older brother play games on it. It's been years since I have seen Windows 95. Good work!
This is very interesting! I remember having to re-install early '95 quite often, but 95b was very stable. I think VirtualDubMod, video editing software, might still work on '95.
For all the 30 year olds here, Windows 95 is childhood. My first operative system; I still remember using it, even in the early windows 98 days. I must have switched to windows 98' in 2000.
I've still got. Atari 2600 boxed with games. BBC Model B computer with extras. AtariST with extras. Comadore Amiga 500 Amiga 1200 Panasonic 3DO All boxed. I went over to pc. I still have all cpus, main boards, gfx cards, memory and hard drives from pc's I've built starting at 386sx
The huge factor for us software devs was being able to use 32-bit flat addressing - instead of the segmented memory addressing of Windows 3.x. But it still sat on top of PC bios, MS-DOS, and to some extent, MS-DOS .sys device drivers (Windows also had some of its own device drivers). None of this code was re-entrant. Once an app made a call that went down into those legacy layers, then an exclusive lock barrier would allow only one thread of code to execute - this was for nearly the entire DOS layer because the code was so prone to inter-dependency side effects. So yeah, you could run multiple apps and even write multi-threaded apps, but the execution model was very granular - especially compared to its big brother, Windows NT. But it had a good 5 year ride before big brother became Windows 2000 and started to displace it on end user computers.
I hate all OSes Microsoft made after XP, but sadly some apps just won't run on XP anymore. XP is nice after you trim all the bloat. My current XP C drive weighs less than 500 MB. Lean and mean. Small enough to run in RAM disk mode. I just added Windows Embedded 7 to my system. Much better than regular Win 7 but it still needs about 2 GB of space and most of it is bloat. Here we go again... Hundreds of hours testing, ripping out OS components, trial and error. I refuse to run regular Win 7. I'm not going to waste 10+ gigs of drive space just to run 2 or 3 apps that won't run on XP.... No more regular installs on partitions. All my OSes are contained in image files and running from RAM disk. A clean slate after every reboot. Bye bye cookies, malware and "Windows rot". I have managed to stay malware free for 10+ years with these methods. No need to install an antivirus. Just scan all the apps with VirusTotal before installing...
Nice video, I remember having Windows 95 Demo on Flopy disk, that was amazing, and also Plug and play was a great idea 25 years ago, installing P&P ISA sound card (Sound Blaster clone) was essential for Windows 95
I have a lot of memories of Windows 95. I did phone support for Win9x for a Microsoft outsourcer. Cracks me up that TCP/IP wasn't even installed by default.
...and miles ahead of the regular windows versions. Used NT 3.1 up to 4.0 on all my Windows workstations(mostly Alphas and later Xeons) at the time. Somewhat RAM-hungry by comparison, but I never had a single crash or saw a BSOD on those systems. 👍
I actually bought Windows 98SE but ultimately switched to a pirated OEM copy of Windows 2000 pro after finding out that it gave much better performance and built-in features like IIS, NTFS, running on the good 'ol Windows NT kernel. My favorite version of Windows to date
@@fpvm4k3r My all-time favorite version of Windows is Windows 7. However, since it's no longer receiving security patches, I'm sticking with Windows 10.
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Something about the visuals of the old Windows versions is making it so beautiful and well ordered at the same time. There is no real visual bloat which distracts you too much like nowadays.
exactly
Well...
Try "Linux antiX" just for the same reasons :-)
Mastakilla91 and no ads built in
At least. it doesn’t come candy crush
U to vreme grafika nije imala tu i takvu ulogu kao što je ima danas.Mada kad se setim tog vremena prelazak sa 16bit ne grafičke verzije na 32 bitnu delovalo je skoro pa nestvarno u vizuelnom smislu ☺
Windows 95 - XP: My computer
Windows Vista - 8: Computer
Windows 8.1 - 10: This PC
Windows 6.9 - 69: our computer
Fugitifahej :D SOVEIT ANTHEM
same same me....
My dad still calls it 'My computer' lol. He is stuck in 98 era
Windows 69-420: no moar compute
Hey i'm glad people still appreciate me!
🤣 old is gold
@@ssldhl Well probably.
I have original floppy disks
You're my first OS. Thank you for my great childhood and sweet memories
WIndows 95 na you are trash
Win 95 was a “mind blown” switching from 3.1, Epic times. Never had a problem with 95.
They started stripping and blocking stuff after win98se. Before that anything seemed like a technological advancememt. Aftrr w98se for me windows is not anymore a technology update but traditional monopoly.
You clearly never had someone run ping -l 65535 on your IP address
Also clear into Windows 98 there was a memory leak in explorer.exe that would eventually crash any system left online.
*left on
@@Lilithe until ~win7 the i know there was ie memory crear problem, which doesnt erase alloxated memory even on lots of different clearing ways, so after lots of memory allocations from js it simply goes out of memory which in general system is stuck or not responsive.
Yeah, it was just so perfect... Wish Windows 10 was so good.
Its been 25 years and the start up sound is still burned into my head.
Ever wondered how it would sound stretched out to 40× its original duration?
soundcloud.com/ideoforms/windows-95-startup-sound
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 NNNNNNNNNNNnnnnnnnnnnnnOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo
Loved that sound.
@raccoon681 *It's
2020 was a hard year give me a break. :)
I truly miss the simplicity of the Windows 95/98 era.
Take me back, please!
So many good memories with this OS. Everything was precious including listening music in winamp, downloading 3-5MB mp3 files via 5kbps dial-up connections, exchanging game CD’s with friends and playing Red Alert, Duke Nukem, Warcraft and so many others.. Good old days..
I remember playing Quarantine 2 Road Warrior and Diablo 1 on windows 95 when I was 9 😭 I truly took those days for granted. Life was so much simpler
Don't forget Legends of Kesmai, Magestorm, Splatterball, Darkness Falls
Don't forget one of Win95's most important features: long filenames! Can you imagine having only 8 characters for every file on your hard drive?
Yeah, it sucked. Having to name everything FILES~01.DOC. Good luck finding the file you're looking for. Imagine how many times people accidentally overwrote important files by making a tiny mistake.
Also the all new Windows Explorer was totally awesome, the old W3.1 File Manager was a mess.
MISTAKE - left here for reference - Long file name support together with 'big' hard disk support, IE anything over 1.2Gb (I think it was 1.2 GB) and some other bits came with Win 3.11 (aka wfw) it it was originally sold as an office / work environment add on. NEW TEXT FOLLOWS -
I apologize. I believe I may have confused win 3.11 with NT 3.1. My first PC was a second hand machine that had been used a computer OEM's office. I only had the OS for about a week before I was given the promised Win 95 CD. Itis strange how things get fixed in your mind till you yourself believe them true.
Dos sucked so hard it's unbelievable
@@evilgoogleevilgoogle3855 well win 3.11 sucked too and was like something from the 80s.
The time when everything was named "Something 2000" just to sound modern and high tech.. :D
"Windows 2000 Professional"
"Office 2000 Premium"
"Norton AntiVirus 2000"
"Cool Edit 2000"
"CircuitMaker 2000"
I think I know what you mean!
But then 3000 comes and it sounds futuristic...
Gateway 2000
Top Gear 3000 ...hey it's a 1995 game!
And also Dune 2000 from 1998.
Cartoons taught me they used '3000' after the year 1999. '4000' would be too much of a stretch and unrealistic, let's be real
Dude, an absolute wave of nostalgia hit me with that win95 start up sound. Brings me back to the library in grade school. Great video btw
Windows 95 still looks and feels great in 2020.
Cesare Vesdani windows never looked great, but I get what you mean. ;) it was nice to experience many of the features win95 brought at that time. Today, we like it for its nostalgic feeling.
Faldegast I really appreciate your through and analytical answer. Especially, the fact that you brought up the subject of Linux experience with different DEs or WMs. Yes, I agree with the point that at that time at Microsoft they put effort in R&D to deliver a more scientific implementation of human interactions mechanics (e.g. UI or games like minesweeper, Freecell etc.) even introduce us to the GUI and new ways of interfacing with computers as every day tools (for ex. using the mouse) . But there were many issues too. Ranging from performance issues to how different developers reacted to the new graphical environment. (I know it’s not totally Microsoft ‘s fault but it impacted the overall UX heavily.)
Finally, I’m so happy that you have transitioned to Linux (POSIX) world too. I did the same last year (moved from Mac to Linux) and had a whole year of adventure and discovery. Btw, I really like to move to FreeBSD but it’s not as simple as moving to GNU/Linux world - mainly because if their policies that are in favour of an enterprise-level usage and some limitations on DRM content accessibility. Bests.
True
Would you like something more modern, running on more modern hardware, that recreates that look and feel?
th-cam.com/video/-lreCRVWJuY/w-d-xo.html
@ You can get Linux desktops which are similar.
Windows 95 gives me strong nostalgia. Rearranging and organizing the folders in the Start menu, the flying paper animation while moving and copying files, Space Pinball, playing the stock MIDI files (Brandenburg Concerto), the wizards, yellow tooltips, the window style, the sky behind the logo...
Fun fact: Mozilla was and is short for mozaic killer.
oåooåo ipip what’s mozaic?
@@micXmic NCSA Mosaic was one of the first web browsers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)
secondc0ming wow cool
@@micXmic Mosaic lost out to Netscape, the rival to Internet Explorer in the "two browser" days.
@TheGamerEvan Even Netscape is older than IE. Microsoft was pretty slow to jump onto the WWW train.
I remember having to re-install Windows 95 at least a dozen times.
And windows 10 on every update lol
It was so stable on my Pentium Pro i only had to re-install it every few months....
Welll I have to say Windows ME was even more unstable....thankfully from XP onwards they have been quite more stable :D
@@Balnazzardi Did you actually get windows ME to do anything useful? Amazing.
@@smitajky it came along with the PC our family bought at the time. this was just before Windows XP was released unfortunately, so XP just wasnt available yet. Needless to say we went and bought it later on. I still remember how those ppl we bought XP from tried to convince us that perhaps we should buy brand new PC instead, even when the problem clearly wasnt with our brand new PC, but because ME was so fucking unstable and piss poor operating system.
I'm feeling so nostalgic! I still vividly remember attending the local official Microsoft 95 launch at the Grand Hotel in Calcutta, India. I worked in the IT department of a local company back then and was so excited to get my hands on a copy of Win95. I've still got the launch T-Shirt somewhere!
The Windows 95 in 2020 Movement: "Security By Obscurity."
This video brought back so many memories of my childhood it wasnt even funny, thank you so much for making a 25yr tribute, it really made me good remembering the good old days. Here's hoping we get another os just as memorable as win 95
Dan your the man.. You just took me back to thinking my time being at secondary school omg lol coming to my secondary school all the computers would have be booked hourly slots man they were the days. Life was good back then thank you mate
When Windows 95 are more customisable than Windows 10.
Windows 95 allows the use of the parallel port; windows 10 doesn’t. That’s why so many old CNC machines still run on computers with insanely outdated operating systems.
Fuck windows 10 treating us like a noobs.
That's no wonder, 95 is over 9 times 10. Just think about 3.11. You should try Windows 2000, thats's 200 times Windows 10..... Ok, I see myself out.
@@among-us-99999 True, and my company has one real old CNC machine with a Commodore Computer only 1 man can repair, and that is the engineer who build it in 1985. That machine is nearly as old as me and works quite well.
@@among-us-99999 Why doesn't W10 allow use of the parallel port? Is it a driver/compatibility issue? Or something else?
Great video!
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I Love your videos!
I was at the Phoenix launch event in 1995 and got a "I was There at the START" sun shade for my car. I used it for over 10 years...
This was finally an operating system that was as useful as my Amiga that I had used for 7 years before that. Microsoft finally caught up...
Fancy seeing you here :-)
Wow! I was a beta tester and scored a front row seat at the launch party with Jay Leno.
The "Weezer fan" at Microsoft was actually Bill Gates himself. I don't remember how I learned that but it was a fun thing to make fun at when I was 16.
“Cool edit” was and still is one of my favourite audio editing softwares.
Still using Cool Edit Pro 2.1 on my XP box on a regular basis... :)
This was so nostalgic for me! You deserve far more attention for you hard work and excellently produced content. Skillshare is working out. ;)
"Only computer enthusiasts and geeks were interested in operating systems". That never changed, it's still the case today.
Guess I'm a geek
usually that's true, but when you get interrupted by a forced windows update, everyone has an opinion on Windows 10.
Thanks so much for the RetroZilla tip, Dan. As much as I love my Win 95 installation, lack of TLS support has been maddeningly frustrating. You've made my day. Gonna go try it now.
Also, of note. Microsoft removed the Buddy Holly video from subsequent release CDs (OSR 2.x etc). Goodtimes is still there though. Their licensing agreement with Weezer's label must have run out. Sad.
Fantastic video, Dan and special memories, so thank you!
I remember my dad and I going into a computer store (in St Albans, Herts UK?) around release time. The shop was packed and the buzz around Windows 95 was incredible. They were demo'ing the programme, it looked impressive so we enquired about it. We owned a 386 (33mhz) PC with 4mb of RAM and were told by the salesman it would struggle to run on our computer!! Top marks for his honesty!
Your Windows 95 version is either OSR 2.5 or you installed Internet Explorer 4.0's Shell UI and Active Desktop feature. The huge "My Computer" left pane text was introduced by IE 4 (which OSR 2.5 installs). This wasn't present on Windows 95's original version. (I thought it ruined an otherwise extremely functional shell, even if I was on the team that produced it.)
I thought exactly this. Installing IE4 on Windows 95 transformed it. Active Desktop, and the HTML powered directory view. Loved playing with that
Even if it crashed every 5 minutes or filled up GDI resources. It was quite a neat toy.
yes :) I hated 98 because of that integrated IE in to GUI, but fortunately there is a 98 lite that can remove this crap and use original 95 GUI, but unfortunately many program refuse to work with 95 shell forced to 98 www.litepc.com/98lite.html
Ok, so that explains why it looks so weirdly. Curiously enough - I never saw it like that, maybe because IE4 wasn't really needed given that Internet was very expensive in my area at the time.
And yes! Windows 95 shell was great, and Win 98 (and XP later) destroyed it with this IE-like style of file exploring.
I was disappointed that he didn't go into detail on the specific version he was using.
If he added IE4 (I don't remember if that was included in Plus!) to Win95A, then he really screwed up, it really did some weird things to the OS and I warned people to never install it. Oh, I think IE3 was included in Plus! The original IE was pretty much unusable as a browser.
Or there was Win95B OSR2 - without IE4 or With IE4 (Win95D I think?), but were not retail and could only be purchased installed (OEM) on a new computer (part) or you worked at a computer store. Installing IE4 on that basically just turned it into Win98 with inferior USB support.
Basically, the only version that was ever worth a shit was 95B OSR2 (without IE4) or XP SP1 (or 2, original XP was bundled with the messenger exploit).
Win95A had some serious problem that I don't remember now, something to do with long file name support or something, but forced me to "illegally" install the B version. I never had to use 98 and never had to deal with the IE4 integration. It was right from 95 to XP and then to Win7 and it stops there.
Oh, and I don't remember looking at the "With Internet Explorer" every day on my computer, or the Outlook Express was certainly never there on my desktop. But I think that actually came with Office at some point, so that's probably how it got installed.
Point is, really, if you want to see what Windows 95 can do, you got to go with 95B even if it was never "official" - it was included on new computers for a couple years.
25 years later... Regedit still has the exact same icon
Windows versions are like layers, every icon is still in the system files that have not changed, I found the style of 3.1 not just on moricons.dll, but on various libs. Same you can find XP styled icons, mydocs from windows 2000, some hardware drivers and control panels packing win7 /vista icons. and that jdbgmgr.exe bear. always there, for some reason I'm leaving it alone.
@@Diamond_Tiara wow that’s just super cool to know
Those were the days! I remember my computer company that dealt with “legacy” IBM iron mostly. We got a job with installing a PC network on a near by university campus and roping all these discreet IBM clones to an Ethernet topology using NT servers and Windows 95 clients. It was truly a fun gig. I remember my socks getting literally blown off as this campus was part of the internet backbone. My office alone were still on a stupid 96K dial-up.
I was just a kid, but i remember using DOS to run my games. When my dad brought this home, my mind EXPLODED. I had no idea who had to sell there soul to create such a beautiful thing, but i was thankful. Great video. Really took me back.
💿 Great video, mate cheers!!! I remember getting 95 as it opened up a whole new world of gaming! I think i clogged my hard drive up in 2 days with all the cover cds from the magazines lol, aaahhh those were the days 💿
"I could change my mind faster than Bill Clinton" lol
@@Aleks-js6ki Awwwww. Does somebody need a bathy bath?
@@codycagle3241 if it's with your mom, ofc
@@Aleks-js6ki I know his mom... You couldn't handle the ride
@@mgaeeeee9150 I don't know, @Aleks might be a perfect fit.
@@Aleks-js6ki damn u r edgy af
Dan, that ISO for Adobe Premiere 5.1 is for the Macintosh. I'm downloading 4.2 to see if that's Windoze 95 compatible and will update if it is - keep up the good work👍
I remember having my windows 3.11 computer back in the 90s.
One weekend I was visiting the family property north of Rockhampton. For whatever reason I was poking around in the family car and under the front seat was a sealed boxed copy of Windows 95.
I was instantly excited for my computing future when I found it.
Personally, I'll always have a soft spot for Windows 3.1 / 3.11.
As a kid playing games on my Aunt's computer in the early 90's, MS-DOS and Windows pre-95 was my window to a whole bunch of fun. Good times!
When I bought 95 it came on 13 floppies and by the time the CD version came out, it had 13 floppies of updates.
Still prefer the 3D look of Windows 95 and the versions prior to Windows 8/10. Great video.
honestly i'm glad someone thinks the same
Yeah, the new flat interfaces are sad, I will stick with W7 for a long time.
Distinctly remember the look of prior-7 versions. Windows 7 Aero theme for the best.
I was far too young at the time to interpret what OS was what, but this video made me realize that I had some tiny degree of experience with windows 3.1. It was an old tossed PC that I found on the curb as a kid.
Then I forgot how much I actually did use win95, until I heard the boot sound @ 6:55
Holy crap, did that open some ancient memories.
This video will be incomplete without Weezer Buddy Holly. 40 megabyte video file. Edit : good lad. Try the fish.
That's not so good, Al.... Yep! yep! yep!
Good times bad times give me some of that
40 megabyte video file. Official (claimed) minimum install size of Win95: 50-55 megabytes.
and Edie Brickell Good Times
@@MosoKaiser OS these days. Minimum of 10 gb (if not more).
Hey Dan, I was still using an A1200 PowerPC right up until 1997/98. I skipped all the fun of Win95 and went straight to Win98 with Unreal 1 and Fallout 1. Miss the old days. Thanks for the awesome video!
There is no C&C: Red Alert shortcut on the desktop!
Red Alert 2 was one of my favourite RTS games.
@@666chapelofblood I can't get w10 to play it
Or no WarCraft II, Duke Nuk'em, Doom, or Quake shortcuts either
I used to watch RA Sneak Peak and game cinematics and it was like watching an HD movie.
U was;t even alive when Windows 95 came out, yet this feels like CRAZY nostalgia 🔥
• 8:40 - And the MSN CD had a copy of Edie Brickell's "Good Times" music-video, as well as a custom video of a bespoke song for MSN. These music-videos were amazing back then. How quaint it seems now that technology has blasted so far ahead.
• 10:25 - 😂 Bill's face speaks volumes: "Sure… 👀 Maybe I should look more into it if even a talk-show host is talking about it. 🤔"
• 12:05 - Bill's face speaks volumes again: "oh crap, oh crap, oh crap! I can't believe this is really happening! oh crap, oh crap!"
• 18:25 - Now do it with Arachne for DOS…
• 19:19 - I remember sitting on my bed and installing Windows 95 from 153 floppy disks on a 486 with VGA and SB which was a big upgrade from our previous 286 Tandy. Seeing that blue-purple bubble background when it was done was a thrill.
I learnt programming for business on Windows 95, MS Access, VB6 etc back in 2000, then programmed for office users from 2000 until 2017. Most of the OS and Office upgrade I was forced to do to only felt like a re-invention of the wheel as far as what was needed for the average business user, and in fact most programs for business were just broken for the sake of upgrades, and provided earnings for people like me to fix them. Sure personal and specialized computing has gone through the roof compared to then, even what my tablet can do is mind blowing, but the bulk of workers who use these OS's are just doing spreadsheets, making Word Documents and Email as before, and the real work of turning System processes into stable business programs is so great that many programs are still ancient and doing just fine.
I remember I was in middle school in 1995, and we had Apple IIe computers lining the room of my first computer class. We were learning how to type (which I already knew how to do). One day, we had a substitute teacher and she played some promotional material and a demo for Windows 95. It was really the first time I felt wowed by what a computer could do. It was the first time I saw a computer with the ability to have photo-quality pictures, audio that wasn't just chiptunes or really poor samples, and video playing - on a home computer! I heard about the internet a few years later, and then... well, my path was set before me.
And now I have a copy of the Petzold "Programming Windows 95" book on my desk, and I am learning Win32 and Winsock programming for shits and giggles.
Maybe you will be interested in obscure but very nice little programming language - "Pure Basic". www.purebasic.com/
It's not Visual Basic - it produces very small and fast binaries and fun to program with. I played with it for like 10-20 minutes :-)
Windows 95 was my first Windows and has a special place in my heart. Sure I had played with Windows 3.11 at friends and of course i had used MS DOS and other early operating systems. But Windows 95 was the first time I was truly fascinated. I only regret not having tried Mac OS earlier. I started late with OSX Lion and used both Windows and Mac in parallel until 2020. With the release of macOS 11 Monterey that also came with new Mac hardware (ARM RISC) and Windows having gone in a direction I did not approve, i switched solely to Mac for good.
Ironically it was not too good until WIn98 and it's updates.
Michael Russo Google ironic. That isn’t it.
Anyway it was a huge upgrade from 3.1
It was an ok operating system, but not my favorite. But when it crashed; that thing was a real nightmare, and sometimes made me rip my hair or hit my head.
Agreed. It was unpredictable and it really didn't tell you a lot to go by as to what went wrong. For all you know, even running A program could upset it.
I liked 98 better tbh
Windows 2000 resolve all crashes I had with windows 95-98. Way more stable.
XP service pack 2 still puts a smile on my face...nostalgia!!!
Windows 95 felt like it complimented (or helped spearhead) the next generation of computers and users. The $2000 sweet spot price got you a tower with recommended specs, a CRT monitor, speakers and maybe a simple inkjet printer. An investment for any individual or family, but with the right financial planning, this was the time people who may never have felt the need to have a computer....wanted a computer. Playing Doom, surfing with AOL, MS Office composition turned this from being a "nerd tool" to a luxury family accessory. It was a pain to support, buggy as heck, but it made computers fun. Thank You Windows 95. It was a time of rapid change as the tech world was racing to Y2K and it's nice to slow down now to fondly remember the simple times of the home PC market. "It is now safe to turn off your computer".
I did not have a CD drive when i first ran windows 95, i installed with 1.44 3.5 floppy drives. was an adventure to say the least. took for ever to install.
Not only that it was huge it was slow as snailS and the wosrt part is if you of the floppy disks fail to broke well tough luck because You will stuck in limbo as results most people created backups to prevent that.
@@RetroGamingWithEdgarRivera We were allowed and encouraged to make back ups in those days. How times have changed.!!!!!
Windows 2000 was the game changer for me. After having setup dozens of Windows NT 4.0 systems w drivers and such, Plug and Pray was a blessing to me
I remember hearing about Windows Chicago back in the day but I never actually saw it. Highly interesting video!
I remember a billboard near my house in east London that advertised Chicago.
To me, the most significant success of Windows 95 was acting as a bridge to get users onto 32-bit multitasking computing, which came to fruition with Windows 2000 when the OS was essentially Windows NT, whereas earlier versions still booted on top of DOS. It was a remarkable feat, and enabled a smooth transition to a modern OS.
Windows 98, 2000 and XP were what I had the most memories with as a kid.
Same man our first home pc had Windows 98se good times.
The little drumsticks hitting a red and white drum -- "waiting" animation -- evidently started in Chicago at least, and lasted a very very ling time afterwards.
I’m just realizing Gates sounds like Kermit
The visuals of 95 are so awesome and just cozy compared to now.
Agreed
Launch day, midnight, I remember prank-calling the in-store payphone, at CompUSA (remember them?), & asking for OS/2 Warp. :D
Wicked.
Supports COM, backward compatible, fits into 4MB, multiple threads, an incredible technical achievement
If this does not blow up, then I'll be disappointed
This video is awesome !
Windows 95 was my first computer operating and honestly still my favorite to this day.
I remember upgrading from Windows 3.11 to 95. It was the most positive OS upgrade for me, back in the days when a new version of an OS was something to look forward to rather than the dread it tends to bring now.
The first time I saw W95 it totally blew my mind, now W8 and W10 is kind of disappointment. Maybe Windows should die and be replaced with something better.
@@danielgomez7236 In my opinion, 8 is better. No damaging updates and less bloatware. ui is kinda inconsistent for new users. also, no candy crush pre-installed.
@@phage-phroton7690 Sure man, 8 or 8.1 is better than 10 once you have the start menu fixed with some third party app.
@@danielgomez7236 For me, start screen is fine. I was used to it.
The one thing I loved about operating systems back in the day is when it told you when it’s Daylight Savings time and when it changed the clock ahead, instead of the computers doing it automatically nowadays and confusing me.
when he opened up Cool Edit I got legit nostalgia from my collage days. It was the DAW in one of the prod studios along side SAW pro
9:12 damn. you just brought a nostalgia gem back to live. I loved to customize that interface
I remember making HTML backgrounds! Links everywhere.
Ahh Windows 95. When I was young, my Father owned a Desktop PC with Windows 95. I have fond memories of playing video games on it. Lego games like Lego Island and Lego Rock Raiders, Age of Empires and Age of Empires II, I Spy CD Roms, and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? I even enjoyed watching my older brother play games on it. It's been years since I have seen Windows 95. Good work!
Back when switching flawlessly between programs was considered revolutionary.
We really have come so far
Was there for the midnight release party at Incredible Universe (Tandy company) for Windows 95. I was 16 and still remember it.
This is very interesting! I remember having to re-install early '95 quite often, but 95b was very stable. I think VirtualDubMod, video editing software, might still work on '95.
I remember getting the 14 or 15 diskettes for installing W95 ... Was facinating ... I still have a closed box with W95 extras
Windows 9x : 80s 90s fashion graphical user interface. Love it.
Very well constructed video. Subscribed.
I never used windows 95 as I didn't have a computer back then but I used windows 98SE. But this video is is nostalgic to me
Hover and 3D-Pinball, along with all the Windows 95 sounds, bring me so much nostalgia
MS licensed "Start Me Up" but as a person who had to make it work for others, we often sang the line, "You make a grown man cry!"
For all the 30 year olds here, Windows 95 is childhood.
My first operative system; I still remember using it, even in the early windows 98 days.
I must have switched to windows 98' in 2000.
I clicked like before watching. Time to watch!
Gear Seekers will you unlike afterwards if it sucks? 😀
@@peterjensen3162 I do that sometimes :-)
Igor Sandu thats fair 👍🏻
Beautifully done
So much nostalgia. Those sure we're the days my friends
I still have my Amiga 1200. Love the Amiga.
Me too. And an Amiga 600 with furia.
Me too...I still have my Amiga 500, Sega GameGear, Nintendo 64
I've still got.
Atari 2600 boxed with games.
BBC Model B computer with extras.
AtariST with extras.
Comadore Amiga 500
Amiga 1200
Panasonic 3DO
All boxed.
I went over to pc. I still have all cpus, main boards, gfx cards, memory and hard drives from pc's I've built starting at 386sx
The huge factor for us software devs was being able to use 32-bit flat addressing - instead of the segmented memory addressing of Windows 3.x. But it still sat on top of PC bios, MS-DOS, and to some extent, MS-DOS .sys device drivers (Windows also had some of its own device drivers). None of this code was re-entrant. Once an app made a call that went down into those legacy layers, then an exclusive lock barrier would allow only one thread of code to execute - this was for nearly the entire DOS layer because the code was so prone to inter-dependency side effects. So yeah, you could run multiple apps and even write multi-threaded apps, but the execution model was very granular - especially compared to its big brother, Windows NT. But it had a good 5 year ride before big brother became Windows 2000 and started to displace it on end user computers.
I was always a hardcore WIndows user. Yet, Here I am watching this on a Mac Pro using Firefox.....
Times have changed.
Which Mac Pro?
@@a4e69636b A 1.1 flashed to 2.1 with the 2.1 xeon processors installed. 32gb memory and using sfott to run Mavericks.
@@davidmclachlan4165 I'm on a 3,1 Mac Pro with Mac OS 10.4 and TenFourFox. My machine is a real space heater. It heats my room up. How about yours?
@@a4e69636b Mines not too bad in that regard. It sounds like you're running the powerPC mac. They definitely do generate lots of heat.
@@davidmclachlan4165 Actually duel Xeons.
Way ahead of its time
i wanna use windows 7 again 🥺
I still use it
then just use it.
I am writing this message on Windows XP. It's my daily driver and fully functional if you know how to keep it up to date.
Yup....XP here as well. My workhorse for scanning with the old style industrial scanner with a SCSSI drive.
I hate all OSes Microsoft made after XP, but sadly some apps just won't run on XP anymore. XP is nice after you trim all the bloat. My current XP C drive weighs less than 500 MB. Lean and mean. Small enough to run in RAM disk mode.
I just added Windows Embedded 7 to my system. Much better than regular Win 7 but it still needs about 2 GB of space and most of it is bloat. Here we go again... Hundreds of hours testing, ripping out OS components, trial and error.
I refuse to run regular Win 7. I'm not going to waste 10+ gigs of drive space just to run 2 or 3 apps that won't run on XP.... No more regular installs on partitions. All my OSes are contained in image files and running from RAM disk. A clean slate after every reboot. Bye bye cookies, malware and "Windows rot". I have managed to stay malware free for 10+ years with these methods. No need to install an antivirus. Just scan all the apps with VirusTotal before installing...
Nice video, I remember having Windows 95 Demo on Flopy disk, that was amazing, and also Plug and play was a great idea 25 years ago, installing P&P ISA sound card (Sound Blaster clone) was essential for Windows 95
Aweome nostalgia piece
Omfg cool edit 2000. Wow I remember mixing my first mashups with this thing. Nostalgia dump!
RIP Windows, 1995 - 2001. 6 years of glory, followed by 19 years of underwhelming innovation and terrible design decisions.
i agree but i think windows died when windows 10 was released
I thought XP was pretty good but Vista was a bust
@@alissaride117 xp was still dope and maybe i gave vista benefit of the doubt, but when they ruined the start menu I lost all hope
That start up music put me in a nostalgia trance.
Ahh! I missed the fun. I was born in 2002
Born in 2002 as well. at least we had windows 7, do I miss the startup on that os
I was born in 2019, I missed everything
I was born in 2001 but my parents had windows xp for a while.
I have a lot of memories of Windows 95. I did phone support for Win9x for a Microsoft outsourcer. Cracks me up that TCP/IP wasn't even installed by default.
Aging well like wine, like the FRIENDS sitcom
I forgot about windows 95. I used to custom build machines back in 95-2000. Before I got into video recording and music. Takes me back.
Windows 7 was my favorite. Fastest version with the fewest problems.
So nostalgic! Hover and Space Cadet pinball were the best as a kid. So many memories watching this video.
Actually, Windows NT was the first Windows with full pre-emptive multitasking.
...and miles ahead of the regular windows versions. Used NT 3.1 up to 4.0 on all my Windows workstations(mostly Alphas and later Xeons) at the time. Somewhat RAM-hungry by comparison, but I never had a single crash or saw a BSOD on those systems. 👍
I actually bought Windows 98SE but ultimately switched to a pirated OEM copy of Windows 2000 pro after finding out that it gave much better performance and built-in features like IIS, NTFS, running on the good 'ol Windows NT kernel. My favorite version of Windows to date
@@fpvm4k3r My all-time favorite version of Windows is Windows 7. However, since it's no longer receiving security patches, I'm sticking with Windows 10.
Cool video, had lot of fun!