The Computer Chronicles - Windows 95 (1994)

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@Scrapla1 4 жыл бұрын

This was a fun era. I loved the late 90s early 00's internet freedom.

@nakiti17 4 жыл бұрын

9/11 changed everything...

@aaleeksii 4 жыл бұрын

Massive corporations changed everything

@xboxgamer7453 4 жыл бұрын

Trump changed everything!

@mrcyberpunk 4 жыл бұрын

I'm shocked at how many of us are here LOL.

@Tidushii 4 жыл бұрын

@@xboxgamer7453 Yeah yeah we get it Mr NPC.. ''orange man bad'' can you like poop for 5 min tho without hating what the media tells you to hate, is thinking for yourself an option? if not then please do not vote or multiply, thnx in advance. - Humanity

@rajvinder89 5 жыл бұрын

It's crazy to think how well they nailed the UI in 95, so much so that Windows 10 essentially still operates in very much the same way.

@dave-yj9mc 3 жыл бұрын

wasted bloatwhare and redundently wasted ram.

@manuelleivatalledo615 3 жыл бұрын

@@dave-yj9mc Dislexia?

@AchmadBadra 3 жыл бұрын

@@dave-yj9mc lol, you describe about google chrome, node js, android, and java runtime? Lol

@dave-yj9mc 3 жыл бұрын

@@AchmadBadra LOL Ya .. netscape too... I liked dos. There was only one was to do stuff and it was all in a book and easy to find.

@epajarjestys9981 3 жыл бұрын

@@manuelleivatalledo615 u spelt dyslexia rwong

@JamieLikesGames 4 жыл бұрын

Man I can't wait for Windows 95 to come out!

@Annifloyd 3 жыл бұрын

Just wait till 2095. With any luck, they'll name it Windows 95.

@arcanosxqueflanmebloqueode4545 3 жыл бұрын

let me guess, Internet Explorer?

@NotoriousPyro 3 жыл бұрын

It will be here soon, don't worry.

@tomasnokechtesledger1786 3 жыл бұрын

Taskbar and functional Win icon, called Start button.

@waves20 3 жыл бұрын

We got a long away as we are now on Windows 1p

@Tim.Hammer 4 жыл бұрын

Back when new computer technology was fresh and exciting... not repetitive and exhausting... I remember playing around with some of these old machines when I was young, and how it seemed like magic. These days, there is little magic to computers, because we have lost perspective of life without them.

@50centgotshot9times 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly right.

@rexevan6714 4 жыл бұрын

Because it became part of our life, so many people will take it for granted. Back when Computers we're not so common, it's still growing and new things keep popping up.

@Tim.Hammer 4 жыл бұрын

@@rexevan6714 Yes, of course there is always advancement to look forward to. But my main point is that the entire reality of home computers was a relatively new thing then. And now that it gradually develops, there isn't such amazement. Also, back then, the simplicity of programs only further highlighted the underlying structure of what makes a computer what it is. Now, things are so advanced, that our view of computers and how they work is so far removed from the actual working parts of the machine. It's almost like people these days literally see a computer as some magical screen that just does stuff... because it does... and always has... There is very little perspective and appreciation for the jewels we hold in our hands...

@Langkowski 4 жыл бұрын

For each new version of the operative systems they become less and less accessible for the average user. With Windows 98 you could to some degree open the hood to see what was underneath. It makes me wonder if those who design these systems actually use them themselves. They're like chefs trying to make nutritious meals without even bother to taste the food they want others to eat.

@Yomom12388 4 жыл бұрын

Tim Hansen you can absolutely still get under the hood in Windows 10 if you want to, there’s just really no requirements to do do anymore. Overall I think that’s a good thing. I’ve taken the time to learn Powershell because it was fun. However, the more accessible experience has made computers accessible to basically everyone and that’s great.

@horrortackleharry 4 жыл бұрын

3:45 Funny how she emphasises dragging documents to the printer icon. I've never done that in 25 years of using PCs for both work & home....

@trailersic 4 жыл бұрын

I hate dragging things, just have to have a hiccup, or the mouse button loses connection for a second and now you gotta get that thing off the desctop or worse find which window you were dragging it across it went into. Mac Users eh?

@cjosephbornefilms 3 жыл бұрын

Well, she's talking about Mac, which didn't have a right click at that point. Dragging the shortcut onto the printer icon probably was faster than opening the program and printing.

@TheSteveSteele 3 жыл бұрын

Actually it wasn’t a bad workflow. You treated printers like servers, drives or queues. And you could have multiple printer icons so you could print or fax documents to any printer destination on the LAN or WAN. It was like a drag and drop batch processor. Imagine a workplace that had several buildings, floors, etc.. Desktop Printing made it easy for a VP’s assistant (for example), to send multiple documents to dozens of printers, from severs or downloads, all without having to open the application that the document belonged to, (maybe they didn’t have the parent app). That’s where this workflow really shined and got a lot of use.

@lucius1976 2 жыл бұрын

Ctrl+P is so much better and faster

@baldguyadventure 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone else miss those huge Computer Shopper magazines? I loved looking at all those awesome PCs and accessories!

@g00glian0 Жыл бұрын

I have several

@raul0ca 11 ай бұрын

There was a postscript section by Don Lancaster

@jessejames586 11 ай бұрын

I spent hours looking through them

@g00glian0 11 ай бұрын

@@jessejames586 One of the two I own has an advertisement for a 486. I sure miss those days, it was all so exciting. I still enjoy computers, but nearly as fun. I guess because most I knew, knew nothing about them.

@PlasmaCoolantLeak 10 ай бұрын

I miss those ads for shops where you could build your own tower. Good times.

@gaius_marius 3 жыл бұрын

I think the Windows 95 GUI nailed it. The start menu and taskbar are things we still use today. I actually prefer the way it looked with the 3D buttons and controls than the flat look of Windows 10.

@jadetraveler Жыл бұрын

I do too. I don't know why all the major OS vendors started going to the flat look we have today. It feels like a step backward.

@jmtradacc Жыл бұрын

It's because is the new trend. All the trends are temporary and in 20 years people will miss the flat icons and logos

@jerikkabenton7661 Жыл бұрын

I can't even tell half the time which window has focus, or where a title bar ends and the rest of the window begins anymore. Add to that inconsistency in focus behavior. Click a button inside an unfocused window -- is it two clicks (one for the window to get focus, one for the button press), or one click (one click does both) .. ? Guess what --- it's bloody random now. The UI is a minefield. Windows 95 is tons better (although the cascading start menu I could do without).

@johnarnold893 10 ай бұрын

@@jerikkabenton7661 Linux Mint is somewhat like Win 95. No 3D buttons but I'm sure you can customize them to be like that. Linux GUI is totally customizable to the point you could spend days changing it. Me, I just use it as it comes out of the box since it works pretty well without changing stuff. None of that forced update stuff when you least expect it.

@saibea5t523 4 жыл бұрын

win 95: here we have a new feature called "autoplay" virus: hello world!

@blackneos940 4 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there. :>

@MrTripleXXX 3 жыл бұрын

Lol autoplay is my life.

@FlyboyHelosim 3 жыл бұрын

Autoplay worked when you got a new PC but after a while it stopped and you had to load CDs manually. 😁

@rfvtgbzhn 11 ай бұрын

Autoplay was mainly used on CD-ROMs and autoplay viruses weren't a big issue before around 2000 when CD burners became widespread. Later (I think with Windows XP SP2) Microsoft changed the default behaviour of autoplay so that it wouldn't start automatically, but show a dialog instead.

@mikewilliams7519 4 жыл бұрын

dragging files onto a printer icon! Never knew that - I've always done ctrl p. think of all those nano seconds I could save saved since 1995

@sewknow5513 4 жыл бұрын

Omg! What?

@KabelkowyJoe 4 жыл бұрын

I think it was wishful thinking of this dude either, they had to cut that scene because for them it also never worked imo ;) I never tried though.

@JaredConnell 3 жыл бұрын

@JevvoBruv no its much quicker because you don't have to open the application then hit ctrl p and wait for that dialog box to open and the hit enter for it to print. Not it may not save much time but back in windows 9x days it took a lot of time to do all that

@SimDeck 3 жыл бұрын

Just found this out myself. Been using windows since 3.0......durp!

@Zedek 3 жыл бұрын

@@JaredConnell Actually, it does. Opening the printer browser makes it refresh the list of possible printers to print on, and even in 2020 in our company, we get ALL the printers listed from the boss' laser printer up to the plotter in the basement. By specifically dropping it into Printer X, this network-wide polling on active printers is not required and it's much faster.

@robert4you 4 жыл бұрын

Man, this is pure nostalgia to me. I was 24 when I bought my first PC - a Compaq Presario 425 - in November 1993. Bought my second desktop, which I built myself in 1996. Windows 95 was pure science fiction back then. Do you guys remember the Paper Clip guy in Office 95? Those were the times... 😎 A 33 MHz CPU, a 200 MB (MegaByte, NOT gigabyte) HDD, 2 MB of RAM, a Soundblaster compatible sound card, no WiFi...

@mattuk56 4 жыл бұрын

I got rid of that paperclip guy every time I saw him

@maynnemillares 4 жыл бұрын

What are you talking about, Clippit was an Office 97 feature and lasted until Office XP. It didn't came with Office 95.

@robert4you 4 жыл бұрын

@@maynnemillares Sorry, it should have been "Office 97", you are absolutely right.

@robert4you 3 жыл бұрын

@Sponge Bob 📎📎📎 😎

@robert4you 3 жыл бұрын

@Sponge Bob Yep, he sure did. The little guy was extremely annoying on so many levels :-) It's still a mystery why Microsoft decided to put this "cartoon" in a word processing software.

@qbertguy 5 жыл бұрын

The mid to late 90s was the most exciting era in computing in my opinion and it all started with the release of Win95

@Tim.Hammer 4 жыл бұрын

That was my childhood - always being amazed... And now, seeing how computers are taken for granted these days, it's no wonder that kids aren't amazed at much anymore. They have no idea how insane computers are...

@jeff4362 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Same with phones, mid 00s to mid 10s were most exciting now all phones are literally the same shit with barely any differentiation.

@TheSteveSteele 3 жыл бұрын

Started in ‘84 with the release of the Mac!

@FrankCastleTIG 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. The crazy thing about 90s computing was how fast everything evolved. A system was literally out of date within 18 months to 2 years, tops. vs these days, when my ten year old first gen i7 based system is still at least "decent" and can run most stuff - even the latest games with a video card upgrade - try doing that on an '85 system in '95...

@VengFPV 2 жыл бұрын

@@Tim.Hammer When I was little, my dad donated an Amstrad PCW9256 to me (just a word processor really) and spent my early computing years on Win3.1 ... Going from playing rebel assault on a 486, to playing in VR... the jump is un-fucking-believable. I could only dream of this stuff as a kid.

@scotttunnix313 4 жыл бұрын

"Don't copy that floppy!" Haha - Amazing.

@stevenv2190 3 жыл бұрын

You wouldn't download a car, would you? - I would if I could. Oh, look here's a 3d printer...

@raven4k998 3 жыл бұрын

yeah well that only applies to floppy's which by the way no one uses anymore anyways so who cares about don't copy that floppy

@MrMarlowe3488 2 жыл бұрын

i feel like the real computer chronicles heads know that things went downhill when it went from sponsored by byte magazine and shareware exchange zines to "Don't Copy That Floppy"

@KayoMichiels 3 жыл бұрын

for a 1994 recording and only 480p, the quality of this picture is astounding!

@dorlaretz5901 3 жыл бұрын

I have seen better

@Tamethefrontier 8 жыл бұрын

The start button and toolbar changed EVERYTHING, just look at windows 10, its skeleton is essentially the same as win 95!

@ChristopherGray00 8 жыл бұрын

No actually the two operating systems are completely different, windows 95 was just a highly modified version of MS-DOS, windows 10 is well, of it's own operating system, plus few stuff from windows 7 still in windows 10. If you're talking about JUST the UI and not the actual code of the two operating systems, then i guess you're right

@Tamethefrontier 8 жыл бұрын

Code Ex Thats precisely what i was talking about, of course they are completely different code wise.

@hifijohn 7 жыл бұрын

no, windows 3.x was just a graphical version of DOS, windows 9X was a real OS it used DOS for just for boot up. @10:34 as far as size, win95 was about 50M, win98 installed was over 200M and grew to 600M with all the fixes, xp started at 1.5G and vista through win 10 starts at 7G and with updates(fixes)easily can go over 20G! but vista through win10 have pretty much the same files in their system32 folder.

@toddstewart9070 5 жыл бұрын

good ol win95. the os that changed everything

@mrkitty777 4 жыл бұрын

When I have to crap, I will think about Windows, think it makes crapping a lot more easier.

@InnerHacking 11 ай бұрын

Ah the good old days when computers were almost magical, mystical and inspiring with their physical form, noises and modus operandi. Also the golden age of games that incited a type of wonder that is lost today and maybe forever...

@raven4k998 11 ай бұрын

are windows shades and stickey exciting you for the future of computing?🤣🤣🤣

@robertbridges517 10 ай бұрын

When everyone of them was about $3000. Finally the costs dropped to below $2009.

@Dan-di9jd 9 ай бұрын

I do like building PCs these days. I do feel that parts are a lot more accessible than it was compared to the 90s and early 2000s. You had to really hunt them down and chances are it's better to just buy a desktop then add the pieces you want.@@robertbridges517

@Dan-di9jd 9 ай бұрын

I feel the big difference then and now is that developers really had to understand the computer they were developing on. So a lot of developers were making innovative designs and concepts that they would sell to other companies as a game engine or framework. I remember a huge selling point at the time was what a game was capable of doing rather than what sort of game play you got out of it. Like Wolfenstein or Doom, were both promoting the whole "3D" FPS experience and games after that tried to beat it out by adding features or capabilities. Even side scrollers on SNES was being sold off as how functional it was and how many sprites they could put on the screen at the same time. Today games can't sell with those ideas anymore.

@millermonsterair 3 жыл бұрын

this era was big for me. i was pretty young. i was born in 1986, but the only real good memories ive got as a kid were from around this time period. i even remember standing out in front of a store called "The Good Guys" with my uncle, waiting to snag a copy of Win 95. it was a big deal back then and it was a HUGE step forward. kids today will never know the feeling of upgrading from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 and that makes me sad. it really was a big deal back then. i cant think of any other OS other than Windows 98 that people actually lined up at shops/stores to buy. it made early web browsing basically what it is today. and, around that time, the internet that we know it today was first really "released" to the public and i remember my uncle and i really got hooked really early on and just knew it was going to be HUGE. nothing like surfing the early web and then a few months later, going to buy one of the first available copies of Windows 95. lol. of course, the web pages looked terrible, took forever to load and if someone called (or sister decided that making a call 5mins after dialing to go online was a good idea), lol, have fun. lol. but yeah, good times.

@bchristian85 Жыл бұрын

Windows 95 was probably the biggest step forward for computers in history. Even though it can be argued the Mac had many of the same features first, Windows 95 packaged it in a way that it was embraced by everyone. One of Microsoft's issues throughout the past almost three decades now is with every release since then they've been trying to recapture the magic of Windows 95 but it can't be done. Windows 95 made computers what they are today and that can only be done once.

@Christobanistan Жыл бұрын

Heheh, I am exactly 10 years older than you, waited in line at Best Buy for Windows 95. The whole idea of the start button, something Windows and Linux still embrace to this day, was pioneered in that OS. It really was clear that the best UI designers were working for MS in those days!

@millermonsterair Жыл бұрын

@@Christobanistan yep. *nostalgia sets in* lol

@mcveighc75 Жыл бұрын

Still remember the hype building up to Windows95. You couldn’t see a movie without seeing the Rolling Stones Start Me Up add. Funny to see Visio before it was a Microsoft product. It’s hardly changed in 30 years.

@seraph_86 Жыл бұрын

i agree i was born 86 also the 90s were the best.

@AchtungEnglander 3 жыл бұрын

"and where can I stash any porn and hid it from the wife ?" " Windows 95 has thought of that. We created a special folder called Work Accounts Stuff. The chances she will look in there is slim" "Thanks. Seems Bill Gates thought of everything" "Exactly"

@ayanjit9196 3 жыл бұрын

Especially that thing 🤣😁🤣

@raven4k998 3 жыл бұрын

@@ayanjit9196 bill gates was a genius 🤣😁🤣🤣😁🤣

@Christobanistan Жыл бұрын

You mean your total of 3, 21kb, 256 color pics of individual boobs?

@spaceorbison 7 жыл бұрын

I like computer geeks when they were just computer geeks not gamer geeks, give me back my tech tv!

@martinsnow6641 7 жыл бұрын

OMG YES! I do play games, but i'm more interested in the tech, than how fast one can run a game.

@andrewtowle2864 6 жыл бұрын

I miss techtv!! You know that the screensavers is back right? It's called The New ScreenSavers. Leo Laporte now owns and runs the show. It's on KZfaq as well as Twit.tv

@TheRealLaughingGravy 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's sad. On KZfaq it's hard to find anything about computers that isn't hosted by some punk--up-wannabe who wants the most advanced hardware available to enhance the experience of playing the latest game where the point is to shoot dozens of people every minute. Oh, another first-person shoot 'em up, how imaginative.

@ThisOLmaan 4 жыл бұрын

@@martinsnow6641 : LoL

@travisnelson9104 4 жыл бұрын

YES! People don't understand how technology works as much as they used to it seems to me. Think its because we don't have shows like tech TV

@carlhartwell7978 4 жыл бұрын

Think I'm becoming addicted to these videos...it's always good to keep up to date with the progress of computers!

@raven4k998 11 ай бұрын

are you excited about the coming of windows 95 I got a feeling it's going to be huge when it launches🤣🤣🤣

@carlhartwell7978 11 ай бұрын

@@raven4k998 Yes, and apparently they'll be this thing called... The Web, not sure exactly what it is, but I certainly want one of those!

@890slay 6 жыл бұрын

There was something adventurous and exciting about computers back when their popularity wasn't so widespread. Now it's like no big deal.

@richardhammer187 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I miss it being niche, a proper hobby, not just chasing the best FPS figures on games.

@bchristian85 Жыл бұрын

@@richardhammer187 It stopped being a proper hobby when it became cheaper to buy a pre-built with a high-end graphics card than building your own. I used to always build my own computers but choose not to now because the prices are so high compared to getting something like an HP Omen or something from IBuyPower.

@magesalmanac6424 Жыл бұрын

The magic is lost once you learn how to use it. The feeling of exploration goes away.

@georgie2713 3 жыл бұрын

I can Imagine how exciting it must’ve been to watch the internet and tech develop as fast as it did in the 90s!

@Christobanistan Жыл бұрын

Ha! Yeah, our family got an 8086 in the late 80s (on which I learned GWBASIC by accident by reading the manuals and typing the commands). Then at 18 I bought my first PC, a Packard Bell 486 and then it was the Pentium II that surprised everyone with the huuuge increase in speed...

@vagtsal Жыл бұрын

I lived it and I must say that it pales in comparison to the smartphones and social media inflation of the late '00 early '10.

@BrianSmith-yq7ys Жыл бұрын

circa 1996 the internet was dam frustrating to watch a page load

@Dr.W.Krueger Жыл бұрын

the prospect of countless clueless, mouth-breathing mice pushers invading and watering down your field? sure, outright thrilling.

@BrianSmith-yq7ys Жыл бұрын

I’m 1995 it took five minutes to load one webpage

@Drago1995 9 жыл бұрын

these old windows look more entertaining then the modern ones

@WAQWBrentwood 8 жыл бұрын

Win9x had a more "pro" look IMHO....My inner geek approves!

@jamesjiao 6 жыл бұрын

Yes in a way.. nowadays, everything's taken care of for you under the hood.. and you need to do very little to maintain the OS.

@user-lk7cv8vg7r 4 жыл бұрын

I was there and lived it. I'll take Windows 10 over 95 any damn day.

@maynnemillares 4 жыл бұрын

@@user-lk7cv8vg7r Windows 95 was not a member of NSA Prism, Windows 10 is.

@user-lk7cv8vg7r 4 жыл бұрын

Maynne Millares Yeah man. Kind of hard to do when most people don’t have an internet connection.

@JimmyFoxhound 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh I enjoyed this ear of computing! I was in high school around this time. Such a different era, the internet was the WILD west and I LOVED it!! Windows 95 was such an amazing upgrade. Great times man.. amazing.

@raven4k998 Жыл бұрын

real men don't need mice🤣🤣🤣

@Doomfrost 10 ай бұрын

I really loved this age, all the computer shows, the magazines, the advertisements. Always something new out, coming out, or in the works. If I could go back to these times I would.

@Wavetheory85 4 жыл бұрын

Upgrade to Windows 95 over my previous MS Dos was eye opening. I was so young, but glad to have experienced some of those glory days of pc evolution.

@chillinoutmaxin4630 2 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1990 and I remember using 3.1 on my dad's Toshiba Satellite work laptop in '94 - '95 (of course he had some games on there, Doom II, Spear of Destiny etc). I too am so glad that I got to grow up in this renaissance era of PCs and the birth of the Internet. There will never be another time like that again.

@bchristian85 Жыл бұрын

@@chillinoutmaxin4630 I think everyone had at least the shareware versions of Doom and Wolfenstein 3D during the Windows 3.1 era. I really miss that era and wish I would have kept my old 386 PC from that time. I threw it in the trash in the 2000s thinking I'd never want it again.

@tremorist 8 жыл бұрын

Hail to the start button!

@ChrisNova777 8 жыл бұрын

+tremorist u mean the upside down applemenu> ? :)

@burntoutelectronics 4 жыл бұрын

Chris Nova777 that came from Xerox? As Steve jobs once said good artists copy great artists steal

@Mrx2002 10 жыл бұрын

"Real men don't use mice" Man im glad that didn't stick!!!

@ruthlessadmin 9 жыл бұрын

Keyboarding through windows is way faster and easier. It's just not as immediately intuitive...You don't really have to learn how to point and click but you do have to learn the keyboard shortcuts.

@mythril4 9 жыл бұрын

Men need mice now, the other hand is simply too busy. HAHAHA!!

@GenericRubbishName 9 жыл бұрын

statikreg Lol "windows..." Real men don't use GUIs.

@mythril4 9 жыл бұрын

GenericRubbishName Real men work effectively so they have more time for their life. ;)

@ruthlessadmin 9 жыл бұрын

GenericRubbishName Agreed! My preference has always been Linux/Bash, but unfortunately, you can't do much gaming that way, and that's a big part of my computer time =/

@richardteran5478 3 жыл бұрын

Windows 95, my very first OS and my absolute favourite!!!

@lindaoffenbach 2 жыл бұрын

W95 was indeed a leap forwards but 98SE was when I became truly happy that the mainstream PC had finally caught up on earlier 68000 capabilities and being stable. W95 Still had quite some issues at moments as I remember, specially with installing new hardware, fragmentation and temps. There was a 95b revision addressing some issues though.

@SandsOfArrakis 11 ай бұрын

And 95c (OSR 2.1) adding USB support was also a huge bonus.

@JosephAlanMeador 10 ай бұрын

Loved Win98 as well. Then there was Windows ME... We'll just pretend that one never happened lol

@gaius_marius 3 жыл бұрын

I remember Windows 95, it was a big deal. I was a Macintosh System 7 user at the time, and I was blown away by how cool and revolutionary Windows 95 looked. I even got a new laptop so I could run it.

@Christobanistan Жыл бұрын

I always loved how modern Mac's OS looked during the Windows 1.0 to 3.1 era, though I've never switched. I think the task bar was the inspiration for Mac's app bar at the bottom a later on. Essentially, they adopted the idea of a Start Menu w/o calling it that.

@bitwize Жыл бұрын

I was at MacWorld '95 just before Windows 95 dropped. There were a lot of T-shirts that said "Windows 95 = Mac '84" and "C:\ONGRTLNS.W95". Not many Mac users thought that Windows 95 was anything but playing partial catch-up, so I'm somewhat surprised to hear it blew you away.

@davidt8087 11 ай бұрын

@@bitwizeYea but apple computers were extremely expensive back then and we're mostly used in businesses or schools. The top end apple in the 80s was only black and white. While it did have a UI, ultimately windows won becsuse it was just easier to use, and less expensive for ppl to buy so Devs could make more money. Apple has always been a closed ecosystem, not so much in the 80s, but starting in the 90s they became very closed off.

@oldtwinsna8347 11 ай бұрын

@@davidt8087 Also, it was lipstick on a pig thing for the pre-OSX era Macs. The UI looked nice but the underlying OS was primitive, unstable, and was a death bed for future technologies coming around. Recall that Apple spent hundreds of millions on two failed projects (Taligent and then Copland) to get a new OS implemented before admitting they were functionally incapable of building an OS from scratch and so went on their quest to the outside world, eventually landing on NeXT.

@francescocarpinelli5063 4 жыл бұрын

Those years were like the old west, no bounds, no laws, a whole free world to discover each day. Altavista as search engine, hotmail mail service, HTML chats, computer fairs was each year a leap ahead...oh damn.

@hajivideos9104 3 жыл бұрын

It's so cool that we can see footage of 1994 Beta versions of Windows 95!

@raven4k998 11 ай бұрын

yeah it is that the betas are saved in video footage for all time thanks to this show capturing it for all time

@zacharyfindlay-maddox171 Жыл бұрын

Windows 95 was such a golden era! I remember the feeling of a whole new world with it. I miss the excitement that people felt during this era.

@calvinsaxon5822 4 жыл бұрын

This makes me so happy that these shows are available here. (tears streaming down face). Thank you. Thank you. Sincerely.

@folksurvival 3 жыл бұрын

Lay off the soy.

@DavidPigbody 10 ай бұрын

@@folksurvivallmao

@johneygd 7 жыл бұрын

1994 laid the foundation for 1995. Windows 95 caused an atomic explosion in the computer industry that following year,becoming mainstream.

@Doctorj1 7 жыл бұрын

YOU ARE EVERYWHERE

@jeremyjohnson8844 7 жыл бұрын

It most certainly did.

@mattyfrommacc1554 7 жыл бұрын

and Microsoft have tried and failed to get rid of the start menu which debuted in win 95, I still use classic shell which emulates the classic win 95/98/2000/XP start menu :)

@Discrimination_is_not_a_right 7 жыл бұрын

And it wasn't all that long ago, either.

@CeeStyleDj 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks to the Mac GUI.....

@deckard5pegasus673 Жыл бұрын

Go watch a demo of NeXT computer in 1992. Not only does it have everything that windows 95 does, but also Windows NT or even Windows 2000 and XP. In other words about 10 year ahead of Microsoft. But even more impressive is that Gary Kildall, had came out with a Multitasking Windowing operating system with GEM and MP/M (multitask CP/M) one year before windows 1.0, and was 10 years ahead of anyone else. RIP Gary Kildall, The Computer Chronicles sold him out, and focused on Microsoft through the years instead of recognizing they had a TRUE pioneering computer genius in their very own studio.

@perfectionbox 3 жыл бұрын

I remember 24-bit color arriving on the Mac, you could see menu items draw one by one. CPUs were so choked with graphic data.

@gkexposure4101 3 жыл бұрын

It’s crazy how much of it still remains the same.

@Leuel48Fan Жыл бұрын

6:15 Seriously revolutionary UI design that's ubiquitous to this day even in Windows 11. The concept of the Start menu, and taskbar representing running apps to switch between when minimized/in background is amazingly intuitive. Don't doubt that was a big reason PCs took off in the main-stream in the late 90s.

@MondySpartan 10 ай бұрын

Killing off the Start menu was the reason the original Windows 8 failed, and it shows. They took away what had been the core feature of the user interface for decades.

@ShamrockParticle 10 ай бұрын

Everyone had PC clones by 1995, that didn't hurt either

@jasondashney 10 ай бұрын

If you think this UI is great and practical and intuitive and functional, just wait until you see what Apple has been cooking for decades....

@RuruFIN 5 жыл бұрын

Drinking game: take a shot every time the Microsoft guy says "exactly" :D

@ZeroHourProductions407 4 жыл бұрын

No thanks. I choose life. 💀

@wolfgangamadeusjoshdephuta9371 4 жыл бұрын

Hyw hte ucfk idd i lstin to uyo

@blacbraun 4 жыл бұрын

@@ZeroHourProductions407 Exactly!

@carlybishop6160 3 жыл бұрын

I hadn't really noticed it to begin with but now you have said that it actually annoys me every time he says it!

@chevron-vw5rn 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@totoroben 11 ай бұрын

One thing that's super useful in more modern versions of Windows is the search bar in the start bar area, so instead of navigating through the start menu you can just type the thing you want.

@erich1998 3 жыл бұрын

"Dial up to the internet" - Kids today will never know the struggle.

@insanecuckooman8342 3 жыл бұрын

or what is an internet cafe

@szymongrabarczyk3561 3 жыл бұрын

or how you struggle with finding the right inf driver file for 56k modem despite 95 was advertising "plug and play" at the time.

@user7897 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone remembers NetZero? or the term DUNer?

@szymongrabarczyk3561 3 жыл бұрын

@@user7897 tgis is turning into southpark memberberies episode.

@weaponofmassconstruction1940 3 жыл бұрын

There's a website that emulates the internet as if you had a 56k modem! It's so much fun 👍

@ian_b 4 жыл бұрын

I totally miss wrangling IRQs and DMAs.

@cobaltblue1975 4 жыл бұрын

LOL, I distinctly remember working for a chain of computer stores in Chicago named Elek Tek. So many Creative Lab multimedia kits, and so many Compaq computers with literally one IRQ left. Good times and fond memories. Watching this really took me back.

@tabcreedence6553 4 жыл бұрын

Yes and those lovely rs-232 ports

@Bruno-Guitarist 4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha thanx for reminding me. Jeeez....

@ian_b 4 жыл бұрын

@@tabcreedence6553 I've got two USB RS232s plugged into my machine :D

@toastedjoe1013 3 жыл бұрын

@@cobaltblue1975 I had the first Creative Lab multimedia kit. It was an add-on for my 386DX-33. Single speed CD-Rom and discs you had to put in a caddy. There was a parrot app that let you speak into a microphone and the parrot would repeat the words back.

@SproutyPottedPlant 4 жыл бұрын

When they moved to another guest the previous one looks like they had to be very still!

@johncortez1599 4 жыл бұрын

I thought this also!

@Huguillon 3 жыл бұрын

They are browsing the web

@Odilwerk 3 жыл бұрын

No, he's smashing Tie Fighter. These really were glorious times.

@sanderc25 3 жыл бұрын

Even when that guy was talking it looks like he had to be very still haha

@TrinidadMusicMaster 4 жыл бұрын

“Because it takes time to open up programs “ Claire Dolen. Black & White Desktop Publishing

@bsd107 3 жыл бұрын

Notice the TRUE multithreading capability of Micrographix Picture Publisher. The application itself would multitask - you could edit one photo while others were being processed, printed, etc. It was probably best multithreaded application for a desktop machine, ever. Even in 2020 Photoshop doesn’t have this kind of functionality. Amazing. Oh, the good old early days of multitasking operating systems, when at lease some developers tried to really, really harness what the new operating systems would allow...

@davidt8087 11 ай бұрын

It's funny because whenever a new Nvidia GPU comes out that's faster than anything else, the games don't really improve much until consoles come out years later with GPU power of half a decade earlier. The 1080ti came out in 2017, yet the ps5 came out years later, and it's GPU was only as fast as a 1080 I think not even a 1080ti, yet only when the consoles come out do graphics on average get much much better. Today, the 4090 GPU can easily have PS6 graphics, yet no one will even tax that GPU. Unreal engine 5 is good enough for PS6 quality games but right now we still are maximizing what a GPU from 2016-2017 can do at its best for the PS5 and EX BOOXX 2

@millermonsterair 3 жыл бұрын

23:00 being able to do things like that was a HUGE deal back then. now, a PC would do that work faster than you could work on the images. in most cases, faster than you could even blink. the power now is insane when you compare it. its a struggle kids today will never know.

@radiosnmore Жыл бұрын

Bring back. We need this show back yo. ...and YES this format will still work today

@martijnvanzanen4075 7 жыл бұрын

When TV was interesting.

@nickwallette6201 4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, this was PBS...

@robbhays8077 7 жыл бұрын

8:29 - He has TIE Fighter installed. Good man.

@rickylovesyou 4 жыл бұрын

F I LOVED that game..

@miles2378 4 жыл бұрын

Did anyone freak out the first time using TIE fighter and it defaulted to the highest graphics seting and the picture was all jumbaled up I did.

@fragglet Жыл бұрын

Aww they even gave a couple of minutes to OS/2 to keep the fans happy. Bless.

@AndrewKamenMusic 4 жыл бұрын

It's fascinating to try to put yourself in the perspective of someone using a computer at that time, and then zoom out and see what kinds of software and products that were right around the corner (five, ten, twenty years away, etc). Seems like a helpful thought experiment when considering things we might be close to but have a hard time visualizing.

@UncleKennysPlace 4 жыл бұрын

In the day, OS/2 Warp was head and shoulders over any other GUI, with a solid operating system behind it. I ran it on my fastest machine.

@sentino68 3 жыл бұрын

10:57 I wanted to see the Star Wars game Windows guy loaded! I think he was playing it while the other guy was talking to the boring Norton utilities rep.

@MoneySavingVideos Ай бұрын

I worked on my first computer in 1967. It was a teletype in my high school connected to an IBM in another state through a phone line at 300 baud rate. It used Basic and also had a crude word processor.

@kFYatek 7 жыл бұрын

The guy is firing up TIE Fighter at 10:50! Good game choice! Although I personally couldn't get it to work in a Win95 DOS box back in the day. It was one of those few games I had to actually run under the true DOS mode after a reboot.

@trailersic 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I notice it cut away before it showed it was running at 2 frames a second.

@warrax111 Жыл бұрын

no, you are just windows 95 noob

@zacharyfindlay-maddox171 Жыл бұрын

I loved TIE FIGHTER! Such a fun game to play.

@creatorsremose 4 жыл бұрын

3:40 Don't worry Claire, even today people are still having trouble explaining how a Mac is better.

@nickwallette6201 4 жыл бұрын

No need. Just try one and you'll get it. :-)

@mbray10 3 жыл бұрын

@KoivuTheHab It looks like one button, but if you right click a mac mouse, it will bring up a right click dialog

@mbray10 3 жыл бұрын

@KoivuTheHab Lol, i know where youre going with this. Mechanically the original mice had one button, BUT if you held control and click, there is a right click. Im old enough to know that ;) 33

@MarkyShaw 7 жыл бұрын

Really awesome to see Visio back in its early days before MS bought them! Cool to see how they took advantage of the resources MS provided with their OS.

@changkwangoh 3 жыл бұрын

I bought a Windows 95 comp back in the day from BB for $1399.99 with monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, and printer. It worked really well! Then in 1996 I joined a local ISP, and went online for the first time. I want that comp back lol

@oisiaa Жыл бұрын

There is so much nostalgia in these videos! Good times to be alive back then!

@lakshmipriya1676 3 жыл бұрын

Watching 26 years later!!!!

@DeusExAstra Жыл бұрын

Win95 was such a big improvement over Win 3.11. It also set the stage for all future Windows versions and how they function to this date.

@ShamrockParticle 10 ай бұрын

Win NT 3.5x and 4 [even with moving the GUI out of ring 0 into ring 3) was so much better than Win9x. It wasn't as flashy as OS/2, but it was tons more stable and faster...)

@FrankCastleTIG 3 жыл бұрын

The crazy thing about 90s computing was how fast everything evolved. A system was literally out of date within 18 months to 2 years, tops. vs these days, when my ten year old first gen i7 based system is still at least "decent" and can run most stuff - even the latest games with a video card upgrade - try doing that on an '85 system in '95...

@rogfromthegarage8158 3 жыл бұрын

Great point. They are still selling Pentiums these days. Seems like no one really understands specs these days.

@artificialinsolence3182 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta love the crude production where the first guy is just awkwardly standing behind the host within the frame xD

@3styler1 4 жыл бұрын

the glory days of PC such a big difference around this time from using DOS and windows 3.1

@videoeditor9104 11 ай бұрын

Being a software engineer back then must of been so dope!!!

@Dan-di9jd 9 ай бұрын

Yeah it was a little fun building programs at the time but it's no where near like today. You had to figure everything out yourself and usually you had a huge library of books that you had to read. These games at the time had to really use assembly and high level languages usually assembly and C mixed together to build out the final game.

@FDCAFOK Жыл бұрын

I remember going out and buying Win95 to upgrade from Windows 3.1. What a great time.

@willynebula6193 10 ай бұрын

Was it the CD version or the one that had, 15? Floppy disks in the box? Heh, remember when software had a box. Good times.

@gordonblank6845 10 ай бұрын

It was a fun time. I built a Dial up service in rural Arizona and we had just over 400 subscribers. Things were so different than today.

@AIex_Kidd 3 жыл бұрын

Host: bla bla bla bla? Microsoft guy: EXACTLY

@andregarcia3355 3 жыл бұрын

Correct!

@denisbbb218 3 жыл бұрын

Exaaaaklyyy.

@48pluto 4 жыл бұрын

GUI are nice and most of us use them. But... I have seen in the past employees working on terminals to AS400's and "man" that was fast. They new exactly the numbers to type to get to a certain input screen and typed already ahead the data for the input fields. It was amazing to watch. Then the company decided to put a terminal GUI layer (because that was hot) and you see this people now struggling with mouse click. Wait. Mouse click. Wait and so on. Lots of productivity went trough the drain by just adding a mouse and GUI.

@Balabok 4 жыл бұрын

We still do it using Linux. It's a lot faster to execute cli commands then to mouse click around in a gui.

@dickiegreenleaf750 9 ай бұрын

I'm happy I was of age in this era to remember very well at 20. I want the 90's back.

@iovie 11 ай бұрын

Windows was the greatest creation of the personal computer age; a GUI that flexible and functional enough to make computer programs accessible to everyone, while not being too abstract as it still allowed an entire generation get an idea as to the underlying principles of computers and programming.

@Mouzekiller83 3 жыл бұрын

let's take a moment to realise that the taskbar was back then something new and outstanding.

@bitwize Жыл бұрын

And it took *extensive* user testing for them to arrive at that idea.

@mattizzle81 3 жыл бұрын

Lol "on the information highway". I sometimes forget how they used those terms for the internet back then. Cute lol.

@weaponofmassconstruction1940 3 жыл бұрын

@ungratefulmetalpansy It's very slippery!

@cyberguy2025 6 ай бұрын

I know I am a few years late on this but I just subscribed to this channel, and oh-my how the memories flood in lol, I miss these days, a lot better times than we have now,I always smile when I see videos like these. I don't use windows anymore, I am A linux user, as a matter of fact I am on arch using xmonad window manager. I have been looking for a youtube channel that shows off linux back in the day as well.

@OmahaGTP Жыл бұрын

Wow, that intro was like transporting back to my 3rd grade classroom.

@D-One 4 жыл бұрын

Ahhh Auto-Play to automatically spread viruses.. the good ol days.

@cryogeneric 4 жыл бұрын

Thought the same thing, lol.

@dukenukem5768 4 жыл бұрын

Embarasing too, if you accidentally put in your pr0n CD at work instead of your PowerPoint presentation.

@D-One 4 жыл бұрын

@@dukenukem5768 Damn, never went thru that, just had a fear of everyone elses thumb drives. Nowadways i do have to be carefull with what i type in the search bar due to history remembering all the porn hahah

@nickwallette6201 4 жыл бұрын

It was definitely a more innocent time back then.

@TonyRule 3 жыл бұрын

@@D-One CTRL+SHIFT+N

@teltri 7 жыл бұрын

"Real men don´t use mice." Real men use *cats."

@weaponofmassconstruction1940 3 жыл бұрын

I use a rat.

@TheDexterFishbourne 18 күн бұрын

Was at the Incredible Universe in Garland/Dallas, Texas for the midnight release party...... still a vivid memory of mine from when I was 17 years old.

@TonyRule 3 жыл бұрын

This takes me back. I was using the OS/2 Warp bootloader to run Windows 95, OS/2 Warp and DOS 6.22. Lots of tweaking and tinkering.

@yw1971 4 жыл бұрын

11:40 - The beginning of the fall of Norton Utilities - from their greatness in Dos to the absolute unusfullness in Win 95 & 98. Great job Symentec (just as they destroied Partition Magic)

@christophersilverberg3641 7 жыл бұрын

What a difference from the 1990 chronicles episode about Windows 3.0! Gone are the chairs, the presenter's suit and tie, the flamboyant 1980ies clothes for his guests and the general stilted awkwardness or shyness.

@spearPYN 4 жыл бұрын

juanpax64 The 90s was the era of baggy jeans here in the US.

@McRyach 8 ай бұрын

Windows 95 it was my first portal to the cyber world. Microsoft will always have a special place in my heart. Dial-up connection sounds were like an Ode of Joy score for accessing the whole world

@AgeingBoyPsychic 4 жыл бұрын

I have never seen someone quite so enthusiastic about windows 95

@Warrentheo 4 жыл бұрын

Lol, "There is no DOS running underneath..."

@Warrentheo 4 жыл бұрын

@@blackieblack back then, that was the marketing hype MS was handing out... Total malarkey until XP

@jaqian 4 жыл бұрын

I think they meant that you wouldn't have to use DOS to do anything if you didn't want to

@Warrentheo 4 жыл бұрын

@@jaqian Windows 95 was literally also known as DOS 7.0, it still booted DOS first, then just covered it up with the scrolling logo screen at first... I actually disabled that screen to see what it was doing, and because not loading it sped up boot on slow hard drives by a very noticable amount..

@jaqian 4 жыл бұрын

@@Warrentheo I remember, my brother had a weird edition called Windows 95 OCR because it could do scanning apparently.

@seanc.5310 4 жыл бұрын

But prior to win95 you had to boot to dos and either run win.exe from dos to launch the windows shell or add it to autoexec file to do it automatically on startup

@michaelerwin8744 7 жыл бұрын

The autoran is perfect vehicle for distributing malwares. Good old days.

@fitfogey Жыл бұрын

Windows 95 was truly a breakthrough.

@Souls_p_ Жыл бұрын

GREAT! Can't wait for it to come out!

@leongt1954 4 жыл бұрын

I remember the first time I booted my 486 PC with windows 95 on it from a Dos 6.2 and windows 3.1 system it was like WOW

@mrbrad4637 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, i can remember the same, it was a defining moment in computing for me, much like the day I discovered GEOS on our commodore 64 as a child in the late 80s along with the release of DOOM.

@tom7601 7 жыл бұрын

OLD joke warning: Bill Gates said, "If I had a penny for every time Windows 95 locked up or crashed. Oh, wait!"

@mrkitty777 4 жыл бұрын

It did crash a lot, really a lot.

@mrkitty777 4 жыл бұрын

@steven cellugi I miss the good old Windows Vista, by holding Windows Key and R key one could crash it with 1 hand. 😭

@mrkitty777 4 жыл бұрын

Don't let Bill Gates his haircut fool you. 🤔

@mrkitty777 4 жыл бұрын

Windows 9x and 1,2 and 3 allowed direct access to the hardware so it could continue to run older software. This might have been a cause that made it crash.

@SergeRibalchenko 4 жыл бұрын

@steven cellugi nope, hardware was more reliable than today, and windows has had pure software errors. Lots of them. It was fun to send specifically arranged packet over the local network to your boss computer and see how he became mad =)

@DavidPaulMorgan 3 жыл бұрын

fantastic! I had a P60 Escom Tower system with Win3.11 installed. I was able to get the Win95 beta install! Escom as a manufacturer are long gone, but we're still using Windows. I even managed to get training on Win95 & MS-Dos 6 (or 7?) through work. Exciting times, plus WinNT 4.0 too on the server side.

@oksyar 9 ай бұрын

Windows 95 was the real milestone they achieved in operating system, we almost use that same interface today in 2023

@givemepizzaorgivemedeath3983 7 жыл бұрын

wow. internet access already built into windows 95. i gotta get this.

@RobertLock1978 7 жыл бұрын

lol

@oldtwinsna8347 5 жыл бұрын

One doesn't understand the extreme pain and agony of having to configure trumpet winsock with it's predecessor unless they lived through that torment themselves.

@SuperRosso1000 4 жыл бұрын

I truly enjoyed the experience of MSN 2.0 with all of those Shockwave animations smoothly built in. If there was an isp out there that still did stuff like that, I'd totally sign up! Haha

@mechanoid2k 3 жыл бұрын

@@oldtwinsna8347 I have vague memories of that from when I was quite a young kid. My dad had a friend at work that helped us configure our computer and we went over to his house once and he showed us his setup. I was only like 8 or so though. I can feel the pain in your comment. I distinctly remember having a plastic crate full of floppy disks - the ones that weren't actually floppy. and each one was a different driver and you had to load and boot them in order during windows installation otherwise you'd fuck it up...bad. Edit: I should say by that point though we were passed windows 95 so your memory is probably A LOT more painful but I remember my dad yelling at the computer because we couldn't figure out winsock.

@daehawk9585 7 жыл бұрын

He was going to run Tie Fighter!!

@emanatingf 4 жыл бұрын

These descriptions of the Programs genuinely sound Awesome. Vizio was onto something

@uamade 9 ай бұрын

It's crazy to think that in 1994 built-in apps on Windows 95 were starting way faster than in 2023 on Windows 11.

@thenuclearsandwich 3 жыл бұрын

I miss those days when I got excited for new tech. Now I'm like, meh.

@Johny570 11 ай бұрын

Помню, когда первый раз Win95 увидел, после 3.11, вау-эффект был очень сильный :)

@rabidbigdog 3 жыл бұрын

I *love* how the key promoted feature of new MacOS versions of this era was changing the desktop pattern. Anything to distract from the crashy-Mac co-operative 'multitasking'.