What a blast of a presentation! I remember being a kid getting my first ever PC with Windows 95 pre-installed. Oh man the memories, it all started there.
I was 7 years old when my father scheduled a Saturday night event at home just to try Windows 95 in our 486 DX2 PC. I still remember clearly him asking me to pass the next floppy disk during the installation process and I could not wait to the end to see if the MS Paint had new features :D
@@martinrose9018 Not entirely true. TV has been broadcast in 60i (or 50i in PAL regions) pretty much since the beginning. And yes, 60i isn't equal to 60p, but it still contains the same amount of 60 *movements* per second. The difference is that 60fps is 60 frames per second and 60i is 60 half-frames per second. They look the same on CRTs which can display interlaced content natively, but you'll need to apply a deinterlacing algorithm on it in order to display it on a progressive LCD display. So, after applying such filter, you get 60p from 60i.
@@martinrose9018 Oh sure, there weren't any regular 720p or higher broadcasts until 2004. TV was broadcast at 480i60 for NTSC or 576i50 for PAL. I think the commenter rather referred to the high quality of the video tape rip.
UPDATE (1/27/2023): It appears that Jay has also suffered a motorcycle accident just now, not long after the fire incident. I find it really concerning and ominous for both of these events to happen on such short notice. EDIT (2/10/2023): I haven't paid much attention to the news regarding Jay's condition, but it seems he's back up again, albeit obviously more beat up then before. Original message from 11/14/2022: My condolences go out to Jay Leno who recently suffered a fire accident while working on one of his vintage automobiles. I might not care much for his comedic acts, but he's a really cool guy to be around having a passion for restoring cars, and no person should have to endure such pain. Hoping he recovers well soon. EDIT (11/25/2022): He appears to be back up on his feet now, albeit with the lingering injuries still sadly visible on his face. Good to see he's doing better anyhow.
As of writing this, today is the 27th anniversary of Windows 95. I know that calling out against "shameless plugs" is the trendy thing to do nowadays, but there's something I want you to know about. As an archivist, I have to invest lots of time and dedication (and hot dollars) into preserving legacy media in the best possible quality I can. However, I've noticed that some people have taken my VHS rips and reposted them elsewhere on TH-cam and other platforms, especially this launch event. Granted, I didn't make it, and I certainly wasn't involved in the development of Windows 95 or part of the event, but there almost certainly wouldn't have been another shot at obtaining a hard copy of this historic event for ages. Microsoft also never intended to publicly display the full tape after the fact. I'm not exaggerating when I say you'd have much better chances of obtaining a dual Pentium II Xeon motherboard with the necessary retention brackets - among the rarest kinds of motherboards to exist, and something my friend Kugee had been trying to obtain for years before finally securing one. With eBay's landscape being more vicious than it ever has before, it is now often incredibly hard to acquire even the simplest antiquated things - video cards, video tapes, or, hell, even game cartridges. When I found an auction listing for the Windows 95 launch event, me and Kugee knew that there probably wasn't going to be a second chance at acquiring such a thing. At best, it would've been ripped with inferior quality, but worse yet, it could've been scalped (relisted for $2,000 or more), or just sat on and dangled like a worm right between a fish's beady little eyes. I am uncompromising in my efforts to get video tapes archived in their purest form. I don't implant watermarks, intros, or those goofy "hey dude like and subscribe" remarks. In return, I kindly ask that you cite me, Blue Horizon, and/or my outlets if you wish to use this footage for your own projects: archive.org/details/@blue_horizon_137 blueosmuseum.com Seeing that some people have gone and reuploaded my VHS rips on their channels without giving proper credit is unfair to me, as I was the one who made the effort of acquiring and digitizing them for others to freely enjoy. The only reason why this upload is on TH-cam is because we anticipated that someone else would try to swoop in and take all the thunder, to which outlets like Vice and Gizmodo (more like Gizmojo) would then have attributed it to the wrong person. But upscaling and encoding videos to 1080p just to get deinterlaced 60 FPS accepted here puts a very heavy load on my CPU, hence it can take more than an *entire day* for a two-hour VHS tape to encode in that resolution. TH-cam is not a suitable platform for archival, as it refuses to permit 60 FPS for videos encoded below 720p, thus refusing to allow said framerate for resolutions like 480p, which is a much more sensible option close to the NTSC specification. As groundbreaking of an archival that this is, it's only a small part of what I do. I have tons more to share on my Internet Archive page, including CD-ROMs of prerelease Windows builds, OEM PC recovery sets, and other kinds of niche software, as well as yet more VHS rips - some which have nothing to do about computers, and even a couple of scans of Windows 95 prerelease books so far. For close to five years, I have also been undergoing an effort to review every single prerelease build of Windows out there (prior to Windows 8 anyway) in the open along with others who have been involved in the Blue OS Museum. Additionally, pieces of software like Plus! as well as other operating systems such as OS/2 and numerous third-party shells are planned to get their own coverage some point down the line. In any case, there's still a couple more segments of the Windows 95 Traincast series which I will get around to publishing sometime later this month. These next two have some REALLY good stuff in them, including actual footage of the World Wide Web as it was in 1995 (I've published some clips of this on my channel already), as well as a largely forgotten, let alone poorly documented networking-related feature of Windows that stuck out to us when we screened it privately. Kugee plans to cover this feature on his own site as well as part of an upcoming thing of his involving self-hosted videos; there is a chance you may have heard of the name before somewhere. He's also created a heavily customized distribution of Windows 95 called Windows 95D Lite, which comes with tons of drivers and updates to make it easier to get it running on any of your older computers (particularly those from 1996 to 2000). By default, it doesn't come with any extra fancy cosmetics (and is in fact cleaner than Microsoft's official distributions, removing the Microsoft Network component and much of Internet Explorer 3), but I have contributed a theme called "Blue Riverside" to it that can optionally be installed alongside plenty of others from Microsoft Plus. It's available to download here: razorback95.com/projects/win95dl Apart from all that, while this launch tape surfacing may very well be as good as anything can get in regard to digitizing software-related tapes, we look forward to innovating further in legacy computing - continuing to grow our sites, turning up more revelations in the history of older Windows releases, and one day delivering brand new software designed with old hardware platforms in mind for you to enjoy. Thank you for taking the time to watch the tape in its entirety. And remember, the RTM date is not August 15th!
It was only this morning while at work I was looking for something random, I already can't remember what. Saw an article for this video. Came here cause I thought "What are they talking about, I know I've seen it before." Then realised it was only clips I'd seen not the whole thing. This is gold. Never knew this channel existed.
It’s so cool to see all of my favorite content creators here on in this comment section. Also, what a absolute great video, thank you for uploading this.
This is very incredible. Finally Microsoft Windows 95 Launch full video much better than short video. Thank you for sharing this video. This is fun to watch.
It was a milestone in history. I was at school, I was 7 years old when the computers with Windows 95 arrived, the following year my parents bought our first Compaq Presario computer. My brother and I are frontend and backend programmers thanks to all this.
There is so much cringe in this, I can’t even make it through more than 5 minutes at a time. The ONLY joke that flies is the woman at the 1:00:00 mark who responds to Jay’s lame joke with “probably same way you got your job”, which somehow didn’t seem scripted 😂
Çok güzel bir videoydu. İzlerken eski zamanlara ışınlanmış gibi oldum. O zamanlarda olamamış olsam da iyi bir nostaljiydi. Yükleyip bize izleme şansı verdiğiniz için teşekkür ederim!
@@Zer0.-_ I cannot reboot win 11 without getting a blue screen, taskbar not autohiding correctly 30+ years later. Linux on same computer = no problems.
@@MarquisDeSang Sorry man, but if you're getting blue screens, you've probably got some kind of driver problem or installed something that "touches" kernel. "Linus = no problems." is absolute f*ckin bul*shit, based solely on what you've said, I can guarantee that you have installed some special tools in fresh Win11 install and now surprise surprise, it's broken :)
Wow - that brings me back ! Was a kid working in a small shop computer store - those boxes flew off the shelves! '95 was pretty put on a real fresh face on the PC scene
Thankfully cameras nowadays are better at taking photos in these kind of conditions so you don’t risk having a seizure watching videos like these where there’s a flash every 1-2 seconds.
I still like the looks of Windows 95 With "real" buttons to push. MS Plus was also great, with theme flavors for everyone. My favorite was the jungle/nature theme.
And now the time is over, MS was able to support all PC -Computers, all can use Windows. 25 years later my company buy 10 boards ASUS RAMPAGEV and 10 modern CPUS I7x6950x 10 core and two yers later after this mega investition (100K) MS Say no Computers with i76950x and no ASUS Bord any more alowed ! WE WORK since 5 years to bring all to linux , never ever we invest in hardware they are in two years no more alowed. And we dont accept the agreement that all datas on PC are Microsoft own
Having worked on big software projects, I could really appreciate introducing the development team at the end. I'm sure to this day they feel amazing. Windows 95 truly did set up the new paradigm.
Can you get more 90’s than the women at 05:45 Also “I’ve had 18 windows open at one time” I can only imaging how mind blown that guy is now with all his chrome tabs open.
Thank you very much for uploading this video. I would like to share with you that, as I am from Saudi Arabia, we heard about this event in the news too. We speak Arabic, so we have our version of Windows 3.11 in Arabic. When we heard the news, it was like magic to see all these features: Internet, email, and networking. It felt like outer space. Unfortunately, most of these features were not working in our region, so we were left behind for almost another 5 years to truly experience that new era. Nowadays, Bill Gates' vision has come to life. We are all Windows users, at home, at work, and at school. Languages and distance are no longer obstacles. What has happened is a miracle in all measurements, and people talk about computing every day as if it's a natural part of our lives. It's a very huge milestone.
The first computer I used was with Windows 98 SE. I didn't had the chance to use it then. Nostalgic moments, I clearly remembers playing with paint on our neighbors computer, such a joy.
LOL. The first PC I bought was also running on 98 SE in the year 2001. It was a Pentium 3 with 667 MHz, 512 MB of RAM. I'm still using Windows 7. And I hate planned obsolescence and I hate what they did with Windows 8, 10, and 11. BTW, the first PC I used was a 286 CPU machine with 5.25'' diskettes in the classroom. I studied Turbo BASIC, played chess and Formula 1 on it which looks terrible today. Nowadays it's the Assetto Corsa simulator and gorgeous modern video games but I hardly ever play video games nowadays. I guess I'm old and there are other things I got to do. I guess I wasn't that good of a gamer anyway.
This is what I am talking about, brings back memories for sure, Jay Leno is very fun and this presentation is really funny to watch, I miss the 80´s and 90´s..
Oh man this gives me an odd sense of nostalgia. My first OS to use was win 3.11 but our first PC had Win98 but I did use Win95 too. Never seen this launch before at all so it's kind of cool to go back.
Jay casually throws nerd jokes left, right and center. This guy is in his prime since ever, never fades. You pop one of his latest video, everything is the same. Even the occasional screams. What a legend.
It feels kinda weird hearing Steve Ballmer’s Windows 1.0 “ad” in stereo and a higher quality after being so used to the low quality audio version circulating the web.
I remember watching on VCR and watching now on my phone shows us all that technology has evolved a lot throughout the years Thank you and I appreciate your kindness of this opportunity to see my progress over the years ❤
@@MarcusDysonDoctorDee69 yeah, goes to show that a good image doesn't mean a good product. However, the presentation and W95 itself are huge pop culture icons and pieces of modern history, as messy as the actual system was. And funnily enough, still holds true, Windows 10/11 are a headache, but they're everywhere
I bought an IBM laptop in 1997 running on Windows 95. It's entire memory equaled 3 GB. And wow was that a lot! Especially when entire games could be played using only 42 MB (Descent). We thought we had reached a new level of technology that would last decades. It only lasted one year when Windows 98 came out and once again blew everyone away.
As a Nigerian one of the things that made me fall in love with The US and American folks is because back in the 80s we we often heard about computers but we didnt really know what it was. I had seen a few computers and even in movies but computers were like something out of a sci fi movie. They seems like machines that were to appear 50 years into the future. Computers werent as advanced at that time. SO even though I had seen a few computers. They didnt really click because with a lack of graphical user interface they were like calculators. My idea of computers being sophisticated machines that could do any calculations was far into the future. I had no idea that these guys were working hard to make computers more personal and with an appealing GUI. It was in the mid 90s that I first came in contact with a computer at school. The first operating system I got familiar with was windows 95. Back then it looked so sophisticated and complex. The graphics was super cool. This was far less time than the 50 years I imagined computers to be about 10 years earlier. From that moment I began to see advancement in different types of softwares. I remember windows 98 looking even better than windows 95. Then I began to see the evolution of gaming graphics and what computers were capable of. Then I remembered when Windows 7 got released, it turned out to be my favorite OS up till date with the friendliest graphical user interface. When I imagine what computers could do in the future I wasnt expecting it to happen so soon. Today I think we're slowly entering into the age of robotics with AI technology. So AI is basically the brain and consciousness of robots being integrated into various softwares and eventually hardwares, then humanoid robotics. I'm hoping that 100 years from now there will be independent walking humanoid robots assisting humans in doing a lot of things. Just waiting for boston dynamics to begin merging themselves with the makers of Ameca.😄
59:10 and the clowns at Microsoft today have actually removed this feature in Windows 11, only to have it restored after huge backlash. The ability to put the taskbar on any edge of the screen, also introduced in Windows 95, is still missing in Windows 11.
Found my way here through a bit of nostalgia diving after hearing the recent hoopla about Windows 11 lol. It's a beautifully preserved little piece of history that reminded me of how my passion for computers began at an early age. God bless you for making this available to us all, media like this should be cherished
Such a great thing to watch. I was finishing year 11 when it was launched and it changed the face of computing. Internet in the home affordable PCs, I look at what we use now and it all kicked off with some really cool innovation like W95.
I was born in 1991, the first time I've used an computer was in 1997 in my third grade, it was the first computer class and i never forgot the microsoft sound when windows 95 starded. In that moment that 6 years old boy realized that his love to computers gonna be forever. Now I'm 32, using windows 10 everyday in my work and still amazed how nice all this thing is.
1:11:20 that's an interesting way of sharing links. It's actually a fantastic idea. It's like link shortening but using an icon instead. I feel like we need something like this for the modern day.
I remember this like it was yesterday! We used to have a computer store here in the UK called Bytes (gone now!) but I recall walking in to one of the branches and seeing hundreds of Windows 95 boxes all over the place with the OS running on a bunch of Pentiums. My Amiga 1200 got bundled away for a few years after that! Good times.
16:28 what a moment. Imagine if during Win 11 Launch Bill Gates did something like that, so mundane today, switching between programs in the task bar. Back then it was revolutionary, today we take as granted in every OS.
Incredible that this has eluded the internet for so very long, wow.
Thanks so much for digitizing and sharing this!
LGR! Good to see you saw this too.
leno ran out of money to keep it offline
I couldn't have said it better Clint. What an amazing day!
Love your channel LGR! - from UK here :)
LGR is always surfing the internet in the most random computer places, love your content!
Wow, that's quite a leap from Windows 11 to 95. Can't wait.
😂😂😂
@@ChatGPT1111 thank god there are 56K modems now
@@OLIV3R_YT if only T1 lines were affordable.
If you think about it, Windows 95 is actually easier to use in some parts than 11.
Wait till you see Windows 2000.
Steve Ballmer was only 30 years in that 1986 video but he looked about 55.
He was at the right place at the right time
I had to look twice. I saw a man that looks like it could be Ballmer today, but the video is from 1986 😂
That's what baldness and checked suits will do to ya!
Nebraska!!!!
This is very nearly the most 90s thing I've ever seen. Jay Leno, pleated oversized slacks, Clinton jokes, retro tech. I love it.
Retro tech? A printer driver installing without an error is alien technology still
Difference is one can now experience the self-immolation of Windows 11 in ultra-wide 8K. The future is now!
No matter what OS you use, it's great to be able to look back on historical moments. Thanks for preserving this!
Same as this m.th-cam.com/video/idNweKK7sBU/w-d-xo.html
What a blast of a presentation! I remember being a kid getting my first ever PC with Windows 95 pre-installed. Oh man the memories, it all started there.
You still on a PC or did you go weak ass cell phone?
@@nirv Lol still using a PC of course
Haha same! So thankful for my dad picking up an HP Vectra
Pc master race
I was 7 years old when my father scheduled a Saturday night event at home just to try Windows 95 in our 486 DX2 PC. I still remember clearly him asking me to pass the next floppy disk during the installation process and I could not wait to the end to see if the MS Paint had new features :D
90 minute installation time?
eu tmb haha
My first computer 486dx2 66. I was thrilled when the windows 95 launched!
@Brian Scramlin AYO 8GB RAM ?!
@@sharl16338MB.
This is incredible. Thanks for uploading this!
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Thank you for doing the noble thing and uploading this in it's entirety with no stupid watermark.
This sounds fantastic. I need to upgrade my PC to Windows 95! 😄
Its are actually an upgrade when compared to Windows nowdays...
@@ayanforever imagine how fast that'd run on modern hardware.
everything would be instant
@@ayanforever LOL !
Only 73 years to Windows (20)95!
@@stephenkamenar it won't run if your CPU is faster than 2GHz.
Wow. Steve Ballmer was like the Saul Goodman of computers
Except in Nebraska.
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lol true!
HD, 60fps, Full video. This is an absolute gem. Thank you so much for uploading this, now I can see Steve Ballmer, Bill, and Jay in full glory haha
Err please. This massively pre-dates both HD and 60fps!
@@martinrose9018 Not entirely true. TV has been broadcast in 60i (or 50i in PAL regions) pretty much since the beginning. And yes, 60i isn't equal to 60p, but it still contains the same amount of 60 *movements* per second. The difference is that 60fps is 60 frames per second and 60i is 60 half-frames per second. They look the same on CRTs which can display interlaced content natively, but you'll need to apply a deinterlacing algorithm on it in order to display it on a progressive LCD display. So, after applying such filter, you get 60p from 60i.
@@Wilczequ But what about HD ?
@@martinrose9018 Oh sure, there weren't any regular 720p or higher broadcasts until 2004. TV was broadcast at 480i60 for NTSC or 576i50 for PAL. I think the commenter rather referred to the high quality of the video tape rip.
@@Wilczequ Ahh, HQ rather than HD.
You definitely cannot un-see this. Amazing.
Israel Keyes was an American hero.
@@xxxjoseph7362 FBI, right here ^
So bad it was good.
UPDATE (1/27/2023): It appears that Jay has also suffered a motorcycle accident just now, not long after the fire incident. I find it really concerning and ominous for both of these events to happen on such short notice.
EDIT (2/10/2023): I haven't paid much attention to the news regarding Jay's condition, but it seems he's back up again, albeit obviously more beat up then before.
Original message from 11/14/2022:
My condolences go out to Jay Leno who recently suffered a fire accident while working on one of his vintage automobiles. I might not care much for his comedic acts, but he's a really cool guy to be around having a passion for restoring cars, and no person should have to endure such pain. Hoping he recovers well soon.
EDIT (11/25/2022): He appears to be back up on his feet now, albeit with the lingering injuries still sadly visible on his face. Good to see he's doing better anyhow.
Yea bro ✨
Sadly, he suffered a motorcycle accident recently.
can’t imagine my life without computer, from using win 95 to win 11, can’t forget those days. windows xp was a big change.
Oh wow, I’ve waited so long to see this! Thanks for sharing. 😄
my mom needs upgrade to windows 11
I can't believe I watched the entire thing. Jay Leno's pop culture jokes ring in my skull. Thanks for the upload!
Thank you so much! I remember watching this live and could never find the full launch event until now!
35 años después viendo el vídeo con los nietos
How excited were you when the launch happened?
As of writing this, today is the 27th anniversary of Windows 95. I know that calling out against "shameless plugs" is the trendy thing to do nowadays, but there's something I want you to know about.
As an archivist, I have to invest lots of time and dedication (and hot dollars) into preserving legacy media in the best possible quality I can. However, I've noticed that some people have taken my VHS rips and reposted them elsewhere on TH-cam and other platforms, especially this launch event. Granted, I didn't make it, and I certainly wasn't involved in the development of Windows 95 or part of the event, but there almost certainly wouldn't have been another shot at obtaining a hard copy of this historic event for ages. Microsoft also never intended to publicly display the full tape after the fact. I'm not exaggerating when I say you'd have much better chances of obtaining a dual Pentium II Xeon motherboard with the necessary retention brackets - among the rarest kinds of motherboards to exist, and something my friend Kugee had been trying to obtain for years before finally securing one.
With eBay's landscape being more vicious than it ever has before, it is now often incredibly hard to acquire even the simplest antiquated things - video cards, video tapes, or, hell, even game cartridges. When I found an auction listing for the Windows 95 launch event, me and Kugee knew that there probably wasn't going to be a second chance at acquiring such a thing. At best, it would've been ripped with inferior quality, but worse yet, it could've been scalped (relisted for $2,000 or more), or just sat on and dangled like a worm right between a fish's beady little eyes.
I am uncompromising in my efforts to get video tapes archived in their purest form. I don't implant watermarks, intros, or those goofy "hey dude like and subscribe" remarks. In return, I kindly ask that you cite me, Blue Horizon, and/or my outlets if you wish to use this footage for your own projects:
archive.org/details/@blue_horizon_137
blueosmuseum.com
Seeing that some people have gone and reuploaded my VHS rips on their channels without giving proper credit is unfair to me, as I was the one who made the effort of acquiring and digitizing them for others to freely enjoy. The only reason why this upload is on TH-cam is because we anticipated that someone else would try to swoop in and take all the thunder, to which outlets like Vice and Gizmodo (more like Gizmojo) would then have attributed it to the wrong person.
But upscaling and encoding videos to 1080p just to get deinterlaced 60 FPS accepted here puts a very heavy load on my CPU, hence it can take more than an *entire day* for a two-hour VHS tape to encode in that resolution. TH-cam is not a suitable platform for archival, as it refuses to permit 60 FPS for videos encoded below 720p, thus refusing to allow said framerate for resolutions like 480p, which is a much more sensible option close to the NTSC specification.
As groundbreaking of an archival that this is, it's only a small part of what I do. I have tons more to share on my Internet Archive page, including CD-ROMs of prerelease Windows builds, OEM PC recovery sets, and other kinds of niche software, as well as yet more VHS rips - some which have nothing to do about computers, and even a couple of scans of Windows 95 prerelease books so far. For close to five years, I have also been undergoing an effort to review every single prerelease build of Windows out there (prior to Windows 8 anyway) in the open along with others who have been involved in the Blue OS Museum. Additionally, pieces of software like Plus! as well as other operating systems such as OS/2 and numerous third-party shells are planned to get their own coverage some point down the line.
In any case, there's still a couple more segments of the Windows 95 Traincast series which I will get around to publishing sometime later this month. These next two have some REALLY good stuff in them, including actual footage of the World Wide Web as it was in 1995 (I've published some clips of this on my channel already), as well as a largely forgotten, let alone poorly documented networking-related feature of Windows that stuck out to us when we screened it privately. Kugee plans to cover this feature on his own site as well as part of an upcoming thing of his involving self-hosted videos; there is a chance you may have heard of the name before somewhere.
He's also created a heavily customized distribution of Windows 95 called Windows 95D Lite, which comes with tons of drivers and updates to make it easier to get it running on any of your older computers (particularly those from 1996 to 2000). By default, it doesn't come with any extra fancy cosmetics (and is in fact cleaner than Microsoft's official distributions, removing the Microsoft Network component and much of Internet Explorer 3), but I have contributed a theme called "Blue Riverside" to it that can optionally be installed alongside plenty of others from Microsoft Plus. It's available to download here: razorback95.com/projects/win95dl
Apart from all that, while this launch tape surfacing may very well be as good as anything can get in regard to digitizing software-related tapes, we look forward to innovating further in legacy computing - continuing to grow our sites, turning up more revelations in the history of older Windows releases, and one day delivering brand new software designed with old hardware platforms in mind for you to enjoy. Thank you for taking the time to watch the tape in its entirety.
And remember, the RTM date is not August 15th!
It was only this morning while at work I was looking for something random, I already can't remember what. Saw an article for this video. Came here cause I thought "What are they talking about, I know I've seen it before." Then realised it was only clips I'd seen not the whole thing. This is gold. Never knew this channel existed.
You should have pinned this comment
Wonderful to see this in full. It brings back a lot of memories. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for uploading! Oh man, the 90's is so fun
Back when the OS did not spy on you.
It’s so cool to see all of my favorite content creators here on in this comment section. Also, what a absolute great video, thank you for uploading this.
Thank you so much for uploading this! It's amazing to finally have this preserved.
This is very incredible. Finally Microsoft Windows 95 Launch full video much better than short video. Thank you for sharing this video. This is fun to watch.
This is gold, thanks for uploading.
It was a milestone in history. I was at school, I was 7 years old when the computers with Windows 95 arrived, the following year my parents bought our first Compaq Presario computer. My brother and I are frontend and backend programmers thanks to all this.
1995 was the Year when the INTERNET first went Commercial.
The Start menu is immortal. Every time they try to remove it, they eventually return it back.
Cool. Windows 95 was a beast OS in 1995. Finally the launch event is now in high-quality.
Good old Jay, making computing accessible to all! This is why people were buying it who didn't even own a computer
1995 - 'I've had 18 windows open at one time'
2020 - me with 100 browser tabs open across 3 browsers at once ;)
Thanks a lot for sharing! I still remember like it was yesterday when I switched from 3.1 to 95 :)
What a great find. I had only a few minutes of. I always wanted to see the whole presentation. Thank you so much
Oh man! That's amazing! Thanks for sharing this!
4:27 Great to see that famous Windows 1.0 comercial in High Quality! Thanks, Blue OS Museum for finding this full presentation!
As a software developer migrating Lacerte Tax from DOS to Windows 95 initially, this was the time to be alive. Especially if you hate sleep!
There is so much cringe in this, I can’t even make it through more than 5 minutes at a time.
The ONLY joke that flies is the woman at the 1:00:00 mark who responds to Jay’s lame joke with “probably same way you got your job”, which somehow didn’t seem scripted 😂
no Blue Screen Of Death on this demo ? Amazing
Great times with Intel Pentium MMX and 133 MHz pure power
Çok güzel bir videoydu. İzlerken eski zamanlara ışınlanmış gibi oldum. O zamanlarda olamamış olsam da iyi bir nostaljiydi. Yükleyip bize izleme şansı verdiğiniz için teşekkür ederim!
I was at the 1995 showing of this! It was at the local college business development center in New York State. It was exciting.
Back when Microsoft took the time to test their operating systems before releasing them to the public 😂
“That’s why we’re not shipping Windows 98 yet!”
And their DEV tools and SDK did not suck.
Lol, did any of you use Windows 95? What an absolute mess with viruses. It is no where near as stable as what we get today
@@Zer0.-_ I cannot reboot win 11 without getting a blue screen, taskbar not autohiding correctly 30+ years later. Linux on same computer = no problems.
@@MarquisDeSang Sorry man, but if you're getting blue screens, you've probably got some kind of driver problem or installed something that "touches" kernel. "Linus = no problems." is absolute f*ckin bul*shit, based solely on what you've said, I can guarantee that you have installed some special tools in fresh Win11 install and now surprise surprise, it's broken :)
Steve Balmer, Mr. Excitement. The guy who did more than anybody else to damage my enthusiasm for Microsoft.
The advertising was so intense for Windows 95, you can tell they put so much effort into appealing to the standard people of back then.
Wow - that brings me back ! Was a kid working in a small shop computer store - those boxes flew off the shelves! '95 was pretty put on a real fresh face on the PC scene
I'm sitting here and watching this 27 years later on Windows 11.
Wow this is amazing!! First Windows I had was 3.11, 95 was a game changer!!
It was an absolute pleasure to watch this
I totally remember this trackball thing back then at 5:56 :D Anyway big thanks for uploading this!
Thankfully cameras nowadays are better at taking photos in these kind of conditions so you don’t risk having a seizure watching videos like these where there’s a flash every 1-2 seconds.
I still like the looks of Windows 95
With "real" buttons to push.
MS Plus was also great, with theme flavors for everyone. My favorite was the jungle/nature theme.
AMAZING! Thanks for sharing this with us all! WOW
I love the way the printer is installed with no problems what so ever lol!! - The drivers are obviously carefully selected
Thank you for sharing! It's such a joy to watch this!
Thank you so much for this upload! Great viewing!!
And now the time is over, MS was able to support all PC -Computers, all can use Windows. 25 years later my company buy 10 boards ASUS RAMPAGEV and 10 modern CPUS I7x6950x 10 core and two yers later after this mega investition (100K) MS Say no Computers with i76950x and no ASUS Bord any more alowed ! WE WORK since 5 years to bring all to linux , never ever we invest in hardware they are in two years no more alowed. And we dont accept the agreement that all datas on PC are Microsoft own
found you, thank you for share this video!
4:00 the rapid walking is the epitome of modern humour oh god
Thanks for sharing this. I enjoyed having a look back.
Having worked on big software projects, I could really appreciate introducing the development team at the end. I'm sure to this day they feel amazing. Windows 95 truly did set up the new paradigm.
4:28 and CS188 viewers rejoice!😉👌
4:22 Windows 1.0 ad/Windows Then
Back when Microsoft keynotes were actually better than Apple keynotes.
Can you get more 90’s than the women at 05:45
Also “I’ve had 18 windows open at one time” I can only imaging how mind blown that guy is now with all his chrome tabs open.
Thank you very much for uploading this video. I would like to share with you that, as I am from Saudi Arabia, we heard about this event in the news too. We speak Arabic, so we have our version of Windows 3.11 in Arabic. When we heard the news, it was like magic to see all these features: Internet, email, and networking. It felt like outer space. Unfortunately, most of these features were not working in our region, so we were left behind for almost another 5 years to truly experience that new era. Nowadays, Bill Gates' vision has come to life. We are all Windows users, at home, at work, and at school. Languages and distance are no longer obstacles. What has happened is a miracle in all measurements, and people talk about computing every day as if it's a natural part of our lives. It's a very huge milestone.
5:24 rip to anyone living in Nebraska
Finally, I'm looking this video for a long time, thanks for uploading
The first computer I used was with Windows 98 SE. I didn't had the chance to use it then. Nostalgic moments, I clearly remembers playing with paint on our neighbors computer, such a joy.
LOL. The first PC I bought was also running on 98 SE in the year 2001. It was a Pentium 3 with 667 MHz, 512 MB of RAM. I'm still using Windows 7. And I hate planned obsolescence and I hate what they did with Windows 8, 10, and 11.
BTW, the first PC I used was a 286 CPU machine with 5.25'' diskettes in the classroom. I studied Turbo BASIC, played chess and Formula 1 on it which looks terrible today. Nowadays it's the Assetto Corsa simulator and gorgeous modern video games but I hardly ever play video games nowadays. I guess I'm old and there are other things I got to do. I guess I wasn't that good of a gamer anyway.
Windows 95 : the massive innovation and changes of "START from here !"
Windows 11 : a centered taskbar item
I don't know why they keep on changing it. They even removed the feature to drag the Taskbar vertically.
wow, this is an historical gem, first time i've seen that crazy windows 1.0 commercial in such high quality for the first time.
4:28 The 60 FPS sure makes a huge difference, I'm like out of words...
@@martinrose9018 A good number of Playstation games from that time did run on 60fps.
@@am_pm.17 But NTSC was 25fps.
@@am_pm.17 Motorhead!!
@@martinrose9018 Incorrect. NTSC was 60 FPS interlaced.
This is what I am talking about, brings back memories for sure, Jay Leno is very fun and this presentation is really funny to watch, I miss the 80´s and 90´s..
Oh man this gives me an odd sense of nostalgia. My first OS to use was win 3.11 but our first PC had Win98 but I did use Win95 too. Never seen this launch before at all so it's kind of cool to go back.
Jay casually throws nerd jokes left, right and center. This guy is in his prime since ever, never fades. You pop one of his latest video, everything is the same. Even the occasional screams. What a legend.
Pretty typical Microsoft, gets to the end of the countdown - and still nothing happens.
The legend has it that the guy upgrading the 486 computer to Windows 95 is still waiting for his coffee today :D
i guess the full video was "started up" ;)
It feels kinda weird hearing Steve Ballmer’s Windows 1.0 “ad” in stereo and a higher quality after being so used to the low quality audio version circulating the web.
Windows 95 Build 950 r-6
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Compiled: July 11, 1995
Released: August 24, 1995
Mainstream & Extended Support Ended in: December 31, 2001
4.00.950 r-6
Back when Microsoft would delay launch to test their software! Amazing concept.
Hold on on a second, I haven't been explicitly authorized by Microsoft... Can I watch this?
Sir, this is the internet. We do what we want here.
@@nirv truer words have never been spoken before
I remember watching on VCR and watching now on my phone shows us all that technology has evolved a lot throughout the years
Thank you and I appreciate your kindness of this opportunity to see my progress over the years ❤
Probably the best launch of anything in history.
The launch may have been big, but the product sucked balls.
@@MarcusDysonDoctorDee69 yeah, goes to show that a good image doesn't mean a good product. However, the presentation and W95 itself are huge pop culture icons and pieces of modern history, as messy as the actual system was. And funnily enough, still holds true, Windows 10/11 are a headache, but they're everywhere
Great work on the captioning
ORDER! ORDER! ORDER! ORDER! 👨⚖️
I bought an IBM laptop in 1997 running on Windows 95. It's entire memory equaled 3 GB. And wow was that a lot! Especially when entire games could be played using only 42 MB (Descent). We thought we had reached a new level of technology that would last decades. It only lasted one year when Windows 98 came out and once again blew everyone away.
Leno did a fantastic job earning his paycheck here.
He’s annoying as fuck wym
As a Nigerian one of the things that made me fall in love with The US and American folks is because back in the 80s we we often heard about computers but we didnt really know what it was. I had seen a few computers and even in movies but computers were like something out of a sci fi movie. They seems like machines that were to appear 50 years into the future. Computers werent as advanced at that time. SO even though I had seen a few computers. They didnt really click because with a lack of graphical user interface they were like calculators. My idea of computers being sophisticated machines that could do any calculations was far into the future. I had no idea that these guys were working hard to make computers more personal and with an appealing GUI.
It was in the mid 90s that I first came in contact with a computer at school. The first operating system I got familiar with was windows 95. Back then it looked so sophisticated and complex. The graphics was super cool. This was far less time than the 50 years I imagined computers to be about 10 years earlier. From that moment I began to see advancement in different types of softwares. I remember windows 98 looking even better than windows 95. Then I began to see the evolution of gaming graphics and what computers were capable of. Then I remembered when Windows 7 got released, it turned out to be my favorite OS up till date with the friendliest graphical user interface. When I imagine what computers could do in the future I wasnt expecting it to happen so soon.
Today I think we're slowly entering into the age of robotics with AI technology. So AI is basically the brain and consciousness of robots being integrated into various softwares and eventually hardwares, then humanoid robotics. I'm hoping that 100 years from now there will be independent walking humanoid robots assisting humans in doing a lot of things. Just waiting for boston dynamics to begin merging themselves with the makers of Ameca.😄
59:10 and the clowns at Microsoft today have actually removed this feature in Windows 11, only to have it restored after huge backlash. The ability to put the taskbar on any edge of the screen, also introduced in Windows 95, is still missing in Windows 11.
Found my way here through a bit of nostalgia diving after hearing the recent hoopla about Windows 11 lol. It's a beautifully preserved little piece of history that reminded me of how my passion for computers began at an early age. God bless you for making this available to us all, media like this should be cherished
Wow I can't believe it! Now I can paste Nebraska right into Miami!
Whoever captioned this is a legend!
Pause at 1:28:53 with captions on
LMAO!
Such a great thing to watch. I was finishing year 11 when it was launched and it changed the face of computing. Internet in the home affordable PCs, I look at what we use now and it all kicked off with some really cool innovation like W95.
I was born in 1991, the first time I've used an computer was in 1997 in my third grade, it was the first computer class and i never forgot the microsoft sound when windows 95 starded. In that moment that 6 years old boy realized that his love to computers gonna be forever. Now I'm 32, using windows 10 everyday in my work and still amazed how nice all this thing is.
1:11:20 that's an interesting way of sharing links. It's actually a fantastic idea. It's like link shortening but using an icon instead. I feel like we need something like this for the modern day.
Why does the past always seems better...
We know the worst never happened.
I remember this like it was yesterday! We used to have a computer store here in the UK called Bytes (gone now!) but I recall walking in to one of the branches and seeing hundreds of Windows 95 boxes all over the place with the OS running on a bunch of Pentiums. My Amiga 1200 got bundled away for a few years after that! Good times.
16:28 what a moment.
Imagine if during Win 11 Launch Bill Gates did something like that, so mundane today, switching between programs in the task bar. Back then it was revolutionary, today we take as granted in every OS.
It's incredible the hype over this, given the Amiga and several other platforms were light years ahead of this.
Blast from the past before Bill visited _that_ island for "dinner".
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