Windows 95 Turns 15 Years Old

[Kane52630]

http://hothardware.com/News/Windows-95-Turns-15-Years-Old-Retired-Since-Age-6/

Everybody sing it with us now, "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you...you live in a zoo," and so forth. More accurately, Windows 95, which just turned 15 years old this week, lives on in infamy as a groundbreaking operating system that was light years ahead of its predecessors, and set the tone -- at least in terms of the GUI -- for future versions to follow.

"If you look at Windows 95, it was a quantum leap in difference in technological capability and stability," Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald said years ago.

While incredibly stale by today's standards, Windows 95 was perhaps the greatest thing to happen to PC gaming at the time, next to the advent of 3D videocards. The OS essentially sat on top of MS-DOS, but for the first time, gaming on Windows was actually viable, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Not without its dark side, Windows 95 also signaled the eventual end of Netscape Navigator. As of Windows 95 OEM Service Release 1, Microsoft began bundling Internet Explorer with its OS, a practice that would contribute greatly to IE's browser market share dominance.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

This brings me back to my ultra fast 120 Mhz Pentium I Processor, 4MB Ram, 100MB Hard Drive awesome PC with America Online 1.0.

 

[Dave McFly]

bah, I have you beat, my Acer Aspire desktop (bought in 95/96) had:

166MHz AMD K6 with MMX (later upgraded to a whopping 200MHz)
16mb memory (upgraded to 32mb)
5 or was it 10 gig HD
33.6K dial up modem (upgraded to 48k 'woot!')
CD rom
windows 95 (later upgraded to windows 98 second edition)

came with a lexmark 1000 single cartridge printer (you had to swap from a color cart to a black one if you wanted pictures or text), and a HUGE 14" VGA monitor! all for I think 1000 bucks on a black friday special .

 

[black_dust]

Lets play some doom *****es!

 

[BigSams50]

Wow, 15 years already.

 

[ComicChick]

aww Netscape Navigator, you were so good to me in elementary and middle school.

and shout out to Windows 3.14, with 0mbps modem speed.

this buds for you!

 

[danoyse]

aww Netscape Navigator, you were so good to me in elementary and middle school.

We got those when I was a senior in college. I am old.

Classic Windows 95 commercial:

[YT]5VPFKnBYOSI[/YT]

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

Anybody remember the other Navigator? The one operating system that masked itself over Windows 95 in Packard-Bell machines? It had a family room type setting where each book you pulled from the shelf was a computer program. The CD player played CD's, etc.??

 

[ComicChick]

Anybody remember the other Navigator? The one operating system that masked itself over Windows 95 in Packard-Bell machines? It had a family room type setting where each book you pulled from the shelf was a computer program. The CD player played CD's, etc.??

i thin i had that on my computer but i had windows 3.14. it was a packard bell for sure and i remember the the book shelf