Back in Days a found Windows 95 and Windows 98 everytime you put hardware or install sometimes went Blue screen of heath and got message Press CTRL+ALT+DEL restart your computer witch a found reall pain at times but now when windows 2000 and Windows XP and Windows Vista and Windows 7 a found that when installed hardware never went to Blue screen of Death just shows how much has progressed since 1995.
Back then windows actually made life easier for users now they are putting things that we don't even use on windows 8. Who the heck is going to use windows 8 on a desktop.
Really, not a whole lot has changed in Windows when you look at the progression of the os. Look at the UI, for example. Pretty much the same. The only real major change is pinning applications in Win7 and aero / luna. If only I could install 95 or even 3.1 on my computer with 12GB DDR3 memory!
Via Wikipedia: (Windows) NT was the first fully 32-bit version of Windows, whereas its consumer-oriented counterparts, Windows 3.1x and Windows 9x, were 16-bit/32-bit hybrids.
@jonah1976 Haha yeah, I know there's all the technical differences, architectures and stuff, but visually is more what I'm looking at. Like the progression of the interface hasn't varied greatly. Sure, we've got aero now, but...
I still don't see why people say visa is bad -.-. I've never had any issues with vista. Then again my computer wasn't built by emachines and didn't use windows 2000 drivers... I had more issues with windows XP then I ever did with vista.
Anyway, Windows 95 was good for its time but Windows 98 really pushed it forward. In comparison to modern OS's Windows 98 was a minimalists dream OS. It was so small and used almost no resources. I found it better then Mac OS 9 which crashed constantly on me.
Damn this is the first OS I ever used. I remember that if you didn't turn it off properly you would have to wait 10 mins for it to check the hard drive (or something like that) until it booted up. Lol I played like Jumpstart and other kiddie games...
stare systemy sa dobre bardzo dobre tylko ze juz sa opuszczone przez wszystkich ,przez producentow , aktualizacje , i inne programy ktore juz nie sa robione na nie
windows 95 actually in my case worked as well as XP. kinda weird considering everyone was always crashing, i guess that's beacouse i used it soley for games and sometimes internet. but then again when used windows 98 than it crashed 10 times a day. so i switched back to 95 and haven't reformated that computer from 1999, it still works.
Microsoft Microsoft Basic (April 4 1975) Microsoft-Disk Operating System {M-DOS(1979)} Microsoft-Disk Operating System {MS-DOS(1982)} Microsoft Windows 1.0 (1985) Operating System/2 {OS/2(April, 1987)} Apple Apple Monitor (April 1, 1976) Apple Disc Operating System (1979) Apple GUI (1983) Mac OS (1984) Mac OS X (2001)
What is this list? the order they came out? Its very very wrong! MS-DOS Windows 1 Windows 2 Win 3.1 Win 3.11 NT 95 98 2000 ME XP Vista 7 (MICROSOFT'S DEATH TO LINUX)
Funny how it took a "genius" like Gates three decades to get even close to a decent operating system (if you can call it great), yet everyone worships him as if he did it in a year.
Windows still sucks, is still full of bugs, still gets riddled with viruses, but hey... at least we now have YouTube.
Before Windows 95 was released, I considered IBM PCs to be unusable.
Windows 3 was just a horrible interface.
Commodore Amigas and Apple Macintoshes were my preferred systems since they provided user-friendly interfacing and multitasking (amiga). In fact when I first sat-down in front of Windows 95, I thought I was using a Mac clone.
I think it was actually a caddy based CDROM drive. Back in the day some drives used "caddies", which you would put the CD in and slide into the drive like a floppy disk. These caddies looked almost identical to a standard CD case.
Or maybe that was just the CD tray, and she pushed it into the machine a little too quickly (older tray loaders used fold down doors instead of having the faceplate attached to the tray itself.
Wow! I didn't know windows 95 was that big! man, why did microsoft stopped selling it? It's like ooh look windows 95 a few seconds later its windows 7 and vista... How come time goes so fast now? :(
But to be honest windows 98 and windows 95 is still a decent operating system.. Sure it may be old but there was just so much that you cannot leave behind..
@dalek22 Yeah, Win98 was awesome. Until the screen resolution changed while shutting down, the computer was already done. Today, especially on Windows-systems, you can wait, and wait, and wait..(Stupid anyways, Windows seem the only OS out there "celebrating" it if it is shut down. Mac OS and Linux don't, thus being much faster). I miss 98, still have the Disk here, but no drivers for the modern hardware. An OS which ran like hell with 256 MByte of RAM and a 350 MHz AMD K6-2..
@dalek22 They wanted to push IE to kill Netscape. Turns out Windows 98 isn't much different internally than Windows 95, other than IE "integrated" to the desktop (IE can be removed with 98lite)
I'm not sure what your rambling about, but most of the applications that were useful on 95' and 98' are still used today. Word, Excel, Power Point..etc.etc.. The kernels developed on later operating systems were necessary to support the amount of data being processed for future hardware. Those systems couldn't handle 95% of the operations performed on a modern system. You act like this happened quickly, Windows 7 came out in 2009, that's a 14 year span between them.
Windows 95 was on my first (hand-me-down) computer - a Gateway. That was back in 2000 when I was 8. I never really realized it but Windows 95 was revolutionary, and today, in 2009, 6 versions later, we have Windows 7 which still carries the same similar qualities.
I only go to use 95 once. For 5 minutes- Playing solitare with my grandpa on his OLD Gateway 2000. But he got a Windows 98 Gateway, which I upgraded to Windows XP last month, and gave the Gateway 2000 to my uncle. I might buy it.
Seeing this now almost brings a tear to my eye, it takes me back to when I was in elementary school and was the only person who knew anything about computers.
Oh dude, SAME! I was like 7 or so and always playing Doom and Commander Keen (amng many other DOS games) ah the memories...life was so much simpler back then =(
It takes me back to laughing hysterically at all the morons lining up to buy something that had been achieved 10 years earlier on the Commodore Amiga. Here was i in 1995 sitting back on a 2 megabyte Amiga 1200 that was able to run 5 or 6 programs at once (many more with extra ram) with absolutely no slow down, full screen drag down, pre-emptive multitasking, multiple resolutions simultaneously on the one screen ..etc.. and all this could be done from 1985 onwards.
The Amiga had a plethora of 3rd party support! I don't know what drugs you were smoking back then or what planet you were on, but the the sheer abundance of 3rd party support was absolutely astounding! What are you on these days? Crack Pipes?
And your right, the whole Quake thing was silly and i never even bothered with it because the Amiga had its own variants of 3D shooters such as Genetic Species. Quake was more of test to see if it could be done on an Amiga, nothing more, nothing less
Anyway, more to the point of what i was originally saying, because you completely missed my point which you have made absolutely NO reference too with your only form of argument being a 3D shooter!?
Think back to Windows 3.1, and compare that to an Amiga of the time with Windows 95 simply building on the Amiga's strength in an operational sense but doing it nowhere near as well (AT THAT TIME)
If you want to get onto games, the PC needed a shit load of power to even SCROLL a screen at 30fps
And no i am NOT a fanboy, i use a Windows PC for everything these days and probably switch my Amiga on once every few months because i KNOW its dead and it will NEVER make a comeback.
So don't worry, i AM living in reality TODAY, but it you who is pissing in the wind by not living in reality about what was a fact BACK THEN, with that fact being that Windows was an absolutely APPALLING Operating System!
You can bullshit to yourself all you want, and mentioning a game wont save face.
Dammit, I remember that start me up commercial lol. I feel so old now. From what I remembered win95 was a freakin' mess. Naturally the famous BSOD was born
I started on Apple IIe. Loved basic, the games, hacking 5 1/4 floppies to copy to both sides. Then i moved to california and their crap education system. I didn't get access to a computer again until college days. On Mac it was so boring. A hard drive and a trash can. I thought "i can drag the hard drive to the trash. Yawn." On the pc running win 3.x i immediately found program groups and prince of persia and never bothered with mac again.
It was. With Windows 3.x you had to press alt + tab to switch between programs or minimize them and open them from the desktop. Mac OS 7.5.x was even worse, as switching between programs required lots of clicking and dragging. People are often quick to ridicule Windows 95 for it's stability issues but aesthetically it was a massive breakthrough.
Dude, with the Mac systems, to switch back and forth from one app to the next, you have to click on the existing program and click on the other. MS Windows uses the Alt+Tab function. For Vista Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate, has the Win Key+Tab function aka Flip3D which you can switch faster than Alt+Tab b/c of the Aero Glass Style. Home Basic doesn't have that feature, and previewing apps on the task bar, and others that other types have.
wow. You haven't used a Mac in a while, have you? I haven't either, but I know very well about features such as Expose in OS X, as well as the dock. ;)
The OS i used before Windows 95 was one called "Workbench" which had nothing to do with Microsoft and was entirely independent Computing platform called the "Amiga" from a company called "Commodore" for which was the same company that brought us the Commodore 64.
I could flick back then between lets say a Comms program, a Paint package, Word Processor whilst playing music (known as a module back then in 4 channel stereo sound at 9 octaves) in only 2meg of ram with no slowdown :)
It's been a very long time since I used Win95, so I can't really remember it's performance. But it sounds like the reason for it being so slow was that it didn't use custom, or proprietary hardware. A possible price to pay to have a highly versatile machine?
The reason for this speed of operation were things like shared libraries & custom chips to handle tasks independently to free up the CPU. There is a hell of a lot more to the Amiga OS Workbench that simply just that, but just to give you an idea, the main word that people used to describe the OS as was "elegant".
@tigerclawfan Minor correction Windows 2.x had Alt+TAB functionality. Windows 95 despite being a bit unstable, which was normal because it was basically ridding on top of DOS, had preemptive multitasking something only a handful of Operating Systems had.
I have a 95 machine, a 3.1 machine, an ME machine, and some floppies my friend gave to me with Windows 1.04. 1.04 is a prized system, but when I had to use arrow keys, a pain in the ass.
Each program could have its own screen resolution independantly on the same screen, and it could do this in only 14 mhz. Of course it was upgradable, but even the MAC didnt come close to the Unix based Amiga. "True" Multitasking, "True" Plug & Play.
Err, the original Amigas ran at 7.16mhz. The Amiga 1200 ran at 14mhz. Great machine. Worht noting the Amiga OS shared some design ideas with UNIX, but WASN'T didn't use any of that old garbage code. It was a fresh OS, which was nice.
Yeah i am aware that the original Amiga's such as the A1000 & A500 ran at 7.14 mhz ( some say 7.16, but does it really matter ), but i was just trying to be a little more up to date since WB 2.0 & 3.0 to me, were a big improvement over 1.2 and 1.3 :)
XP is funny its a smily
EdizS100 3 days ago
One word - USB support - which is what win95 touted but sucked at, wasn't until win 98 rev b that USB worked
vaughanweather 1 week ago
lol
ultragaming1993 1 month ago
Guys, I dont give a crap if mac is better or not. Just shut up.
teetertotter68 1 month ago
800x600 we meet again. Can the blue screen be far behind?
Agrajag68 2 months ago
windows 95 had a lot of errors
voltron821 3 months ago
I like Windows 7 a lot.
aanpen 3 months ago
After XP, I switched to Mac.
86123maxxi 4 months ago
lololol
joe59788 4 months ago in playlist More videos from scrappymintz
after xp everything went downwards
kinmanyuen 5 months ago
I always hated the green background
eng3d 5 months ago
When Microsoft looked sexy....
LanfeustDeGlinin 5 months ago
omg over 300 applications?!?!?!
coldlogic1 5 months ago
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@coldlogic1
yes and today we have millions. :)
holymonk293 5 months ago
The most unstable GUI operating system ever created
crocodile2006 6 months ago
Has anyone even noticed that at the end of the video it shows the old Mac OS screen.
drfrantic 6 months ago
@panzerkampfwagen123 Stop the jokes xD
TheDarius642 6 months ago
Faster than my Pentium 3 @ 400MHz :(
OriginalCriss 6 months ago
Back in Days a found Windows 95 and Windows 98 everytime you put hardware or install sometimes went Blue screen of heath and got message Press CTRL+ALT+DEL restart your computer witch a found reall pain at times but now when windows 2000 and Windows XP and Windows Vista and Windows 7 a found that when installed hardware never went to Blue screen of Death just shows how much has progressed since 1995.
Mikeybirchall 6 months ago
Back then windows actually made life easier for users now they are putting things that we don't even use on windows 8. Who the heck is going to use windows 8 on a desktop.
ani2595 6 months ago
its windows 95!!!!!!!! its suckin up my drrrriiiiivvvvveee!!!!!
MrCarmani12 7 months ago
Upgrade to Windows 3.1 to 95?
I mean upgrading Windows 3.1 to Windows 4.0!
tweetyaja 8 months ago
NOBODY has a monitor that big in 1995. Except Bill Gates.
bobba84 8 months ago
Ah, this was the day when The Virus was released...
MEGADRIVEJeroi 8 months ago
my fav windows
razorbulan 8 months ago
Still it better then Vista
Baldorad 9 months ago
@Baldorad u got that right :/ also xp was good
spideymikey6 8 months ago
Does Leno still do that "Hi-yoo" shout ? He stole that from Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
Paperclown 10 months ago
Really, not a whole lot has changed in Windows when you look at the progression of the os. Look at the UI, for example. Pretty much the same. The only real major change is pinning applications in Win7 and aero / luna. If only I could install 95 or even 3.1 on my computer with 12GB DDR3 memory!
HTATigersBasketball 1 year ago
@HTATigersBasketball
Via Wikipedia: (Windows) NT was the first fully 32-bit version of Windows, whereas its consumer-oriented counterparts, Windows 3.1x and Windows 9x, were 16-bit/32-bit hybrids.
jonah1976 11 months ago
@jonah1976 Haha yeah, I know there's all the technical differences, architectures and stuff, but visually is more what I'm looking at. Like the progression of the interface hasn't varied greatly. Sure, we've got aero now, but...
HTATigersBasketball 11 months ago
Dont ever windows 95 running on your computer, Now, its time to upgrade from Windows 95 to Mac!
tweetyaja 1 year ago
@tweetyaja upgrade? downgrade!
bobba84 8 months ago
lol i love this!
delliswierd 1 year ago
I love how she was playin freddie the fish :D
Badgerfilms1 1 year ago
I still don't see why people say visa is bad -.-. I've never had any issues with vista. Then again my computer wasn't built by emachines and didn't use windows 2000 drivers... I had more issues with windows XP then I ever did with vista.
Anyway, Windows 95 was good for its time but Windows 98 really pushed it forward. In comparison to modern OS's Windows 98 was a minimalists dream OS. It was so small and used almost no resources. I found it better then Mac OS 9 which crashed constantly on me.
outpostprime 1 year ago
I think Windows 98SE and XP were Microsoft's best operating systems, although Windows 7 is quite good though.
Vista and ME were terrible though.
kazimann 1 year ago
Love the Windows 95 ^^
Laacis102 1 year ago
MicroSoft...sucking it since 1995.
cuttock 1 year ago
windows 95 and it's lanuch was waaaaaaaaaaaaay bigger than windows 98,2000,XP,Vista and 7 alltogether.
simon1234simon 1 year ago
@simon1234simon It was because Win 95 was a HUGE leap from Win 3.1
kazimann 1 year ago
awsome...you can change your mind..lol.
xXPRIVILEGEXx 1 year ago
Damn this is the first OS I ever used. I remember that if you didn't turn it off properly you would have to wait 10 mins for it to check the hard drive (or something like that) until it booted up. Lol I played like Jumpstart and other kiddie games...
krisish00d 1 year ago
I Crashed Windows 95 Before!!!!lol
TheNascarfan14 1 year ago
second system effect times infinity
kxmode 1 year ago
Amiga 1985
ematech 1 year ago 2
What a crap OS. It will never catch on.
Danny77uk 1 year ago 2
Jay Leno is such a scumbag whore with zero talent!!! Even his black sidekick couldn't stand his dumbass!!!!!!
FUNGALBALLZ4ALL 1 year ago
Win95 is 15 years old today. Happy birthday to it. It was my first OS on my first computer!
reginaldkenneth47 1 year ago
All the best Windows
mmariusz92 1 year ago
WOW, you can multitask OMG THAT'S AWESOME!!
WackoX1337 1 year ago
wow
Gerold1981 1 year ago
sorry but now mac got even better
puggy605 1 year ago 2
I REALLY HATE JAY LENO!!!!!
FUNGALBALLZ4ALL 1 year ago
Zomg that little girl was talking about Freddi Fish. I loved that game
smedly500 1 year ago 4
@smedly500 That computer game WAS A CLASSIC...
I still have the disk...
Might play it later today...
VideoGameResearcher 1 year ago
Zomg that little girl was talking about Freddi Fish. I loved that game
smedly500 1 year ago
Man, Leno's punchlines haven't changed in 15 years.
bonchbonch 1 year ago
Windows 95 FTW!!!
HSTCalvin 1 year ago
i had pc fome 95 to windows 7
TheGlennmurray 1 year ago
im installing 98 on my VMware with a Q6600 2.4ghz
2fast4all 1 year ago
stare systemy sa dobre bardzo dobre tylko ze juz sa opuszczone przez wszystkich ,przez producentow , aktualizacje , i inne programy ktore juz nie sa robione na nie
strasznyfilmx 1 year ago
I love windows 95! better than vista!
stonecrestmovies 1 year ago 14
@stonecrestmovies Everything's better than Vista =P
GeeakFreeak 1 year ago
@GeeakFreeak
Have you ever used windows ME! IT DOES NOT EVEN COMPARE TO VISTA.
c64c64 1 year ago
@c64c64
ME was 98 with nicer UI and a few more features.
gerodinis 1 year ago
@gerodinis Yes but Windows 98 had an advantage that Windows Me did not have, access to real mode DOS.
nextstep333 1 year ago
@stonecrestmovies i feel the same
stydel311 6 months ago
@stonecrestmovies I love windows 7! Better than vista AND windows 95 :)
ZoonVanPoseidon 2 months ago
@stonecrestmovies still not better then win 7
thekillersan889 1 month ago
Windows 95 was absolutely bitchin'.
WASPfreak 1 year ago
I remeber the WinXP launch
mewrox99 2 years ago
wow, and to think that 7 takes taskbar and actually improves it! Too bad 7's launch wasn't as big
onionofdeath 2 years ago 2
They thought Windows 95 was Sooo great back then, i wonder what they'd think of windows 7 if it was released right after 95
musicgenerator 2 years ago
hehe well at that time I used an os that actually work think it's called Workbench 3.1 ;)
Repaterion 2 years ago 4
Good god, 95 had such an awesome marketing campaign
Doom2Guy 2 years ago 3
Listen to the theme music.
Start me up by the rolling stones
What is particularly appropriate is this particular line in that song.
"You make a grown man cry"
And given windows 95's wonderful tendency to crash five or more times a day the accidental irony of choosing this song is amazing.
Washu73 2 years ago 12
windows 95 actually in my case worked as well as XP. kinda weird considering everyone was always crashing, i guess that's beacouse i used it soley for games and sometimes internet. but then again when used windows 98 than it crashed 10 times a day. so i switched back to 95 and haven't reformated that computer from 1999, it still works.
simon1234simon 2 years ago 3
wow i used to have one of these
crisproc1998 2 years ago 3
"even a show host can figure it out" the Mac OS was like this waaaaaaaaaaay before windows1995 came out..
aaroninclub 2 years ago
Dms12444 2 years ago
did this happen when bill gates shown windows 98 utilize a scanner?
fairyheli2 2 years ago
did they do that when windows xp came out
spywarehelping 2 years ago
Windows 2000 Professional, on my last comment, not the windows pro, made an error,
xxbox6191 2 years ago
hey last post I made scratch off OS X, thats was for Mac
xxbox6191 2 years ago
xxbox6191 2 years ago
spikeman14 2 years ago
haha now we would think this is inferioir
CfishMotive 2 years ago
WOW - that monitor at 0:56 probably cost around $2500 - $3000 alone in 1995! what a beast!
keeprighton2007 2 years ago
Windows 95 was pretty good.
Even 3.11 wasn't bad.
Windows 98 was horrible.
They got back on track with XP.
capricious71 2 years ago
and they fell off again with vista
youngREEZYnikkas 2 years ago
But will hopefully redeem themselves with 7.
Appule69 2 years ago
Funny how it took a "genius" like Gates three decades to get even close to a decent operating system (if you can call it great), yet everyone worships him as if he did it in a year.
Windows still sucks, is still full of bugs, still gets riddled with viruses, but hey... at least we now have YouTube.
YoozYerBrayns 2 years ago
Before Windows 95 was released, I considered IBM PCs to be unusable.
Windows 3 was just a horrible interface.
Commodore Amigas and Apple Macintoshes were my preferred systems since they provided user-friendly interfacing and multitasking (amiga). In fact when I first sat-down in front of Windows 95, I thought I was using a Mac clone.
harleykman 2 years ago
What was that the girl put on the PC at 0:54? Is that one of those ancient relics known as floppy disks?
Tebok73509 2 years ago
I think it was actually a caddy based CDROM drive. Back in the day some drives used "caddies", which you would put the CD in and slide into the drive like a floppy disk. These caddies looked almost identical to a standard CD case.
Or maybe that was just the CD tray, and she pushed it into the machine a little too quickly (older tray loaders used fold down doors instead of having the faceplate attached to the tray itself.
CruisinTR 2 years ago
i still have a few cady based cd drives.
they are awesome.
nichr0n 2 years ago
Wow! I didn't know windows 95 was that big! man, why did microsoft stopped selling it? It's like ooh look windows 95 a few seconds later its windows 7 and vista... How come time goes so fast now? :(
But to be honest windows 98 and windows 95 is still a decent operating system.. Sure it may be old but there was just so much that you cannot leave behind..
dalek22 2 years ago 19
@dalek22 Yeah, Win98 was awesome. Until the screen resolution changed while shutting down, the computer was already done. Today, especially on Windows-systems, you can wait, and wait, and wait..(Stupid anyways, Windows seem the only OS out there "celebrating" it if it is shut down. Mac OS and Linux don't, thus being much faster). I miss 98, still have the Disk here, but no drivers for the modern hardware. An OS which ran like hell with 256 MByte of RAM and a 350 MHz AMD K6-2..
NoMac90 1 year ago
@dalek22 windows 95 wasnt as stable as windows 98SE windows 98SE is the most stable operateing system ever produced by microsoft
DRNEGOLICIS 1 year ago
@DRNEGOLICIS
win23v 1 year ago
@dalek22 They wanted to push IE to kill Netscape. Turns out Windows 98 isn't much different internally than Windows 95, other than IE "integrated" to the desktop (IE can be removed with 98lite)
kargaroc386 1 year ago
@kargaroc386 Win 95, 98 and ME (*shudder*) ran on MS-DOS.
kazimann 1 year ago
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TheToploaderwasher 7 months ago
@dalek22 Yeah I hate when time goes that fast. Is like ooh look Windows 7 then 1 min later Windows 8.
TheToploaderwasher 7 months ago
BETTER THAN VISTA!!
TheToploaderwasher 7 months ago
@dalek22
I'm not sure what your rambling about, but most of the applications that were useful on 95' and 98' are still used today. Word, Excel, Power Point..etc.etc.. The kernels developed on later operating systems were necessary to support the amount of data being processed for future hardware. Those systems couldn't handle 95% of the operations performed on a modern system. You act like this happened quickly, Windows 7 came out in 2009, that's a 14 year span between them.
haggardjf 6 months ago
i fancie bill gates' money
xbrook123x 2 years ago
windows 95 shared the entire harddrive as default... smart.
Indigoshampo 2 years ago
"Windows 95 is so easy, even a..."
*BSOD*
Jammowns 2 years ago 17
Oh fuck, where did the time go? It seems like only yesterday that Win 95 was launching and that "Start me up" ad was played to overkill.
LondonGuysVids 2 years ago 4
Windows 95 was on my first (hand-me-down) computer - a Gateway. That was back in 2000 when I was 8. I never really realized it but Windows 95 was revolutionary, and today, in 2009, 6 versions later, we have Windows 7 which still carries the same similar qualities.
wakka922201 3 years ago 5
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HalfEatenDimSim 3 years ago
I only go to use 95 once. For 5 minutes- Playing solitare with my grandpa on his OLD Gateway 2000. But he got a Windows 98 Gateway, which I upgraded to Windows XP last month, and gave the Gateway 2000 to my uncle. I might buy it.
mrpcclass2 2 years ago
windows 95= hackers
arm4life87 3 years ago 2
Hackers on steroids at that.
LondonGuysVids 2 years ago
"I can change my mind FASTER than BILL CLINTON!" --Jay Leno
LOL!!!! YES! :-)
jesusfreakrkg 3 years ago
Windows 95 standardized all programs, but yeah looking back -- lol.
OrangeGlazedDuck 3 years ago
CTRL ALT DEL!!!!!!
Ahhhhhhhh! the nightmares!
itoady 3 years ago
I still have my Windows 95 manual that came with the OS and it's in my desk. This still surprises me.
ccricers 3 years ago
Seeing this now almost brings a tear to my eye, it takes me back to when I was in elementary school and was the only person who knew anything about computers.
bloodydata 3 years ago
it does for me to. I remember being 5 years old and playing doom and tomb raider in my dads office.
pacbiggie4334 3 years ago
Oh dude, SAME! I was like 7 or so and always playing Doom and Commander Keen (amng many other DOS games) ah the memories...life was so much simpler back then =(
porkchop002 3 years ago 2
It takes me back to laughing hysterically at all the morons lining up to buy something that had been achieved 10 years earlier on the Commodore Amiga. Here was i in 1995 sitting back on a 2 megabyte Amiga 1200 that was able to run 5 or 6 programs at once (many more with extra ram) with absolutely no slow down, full screen drag down, pre-emptive multitasking, multiple resolutions simultaneously on the one screen ..etc.. and all this could be done from 1985 onwards.
blade004 3 years ago
was it the lack of third party support that made you laugh?
Because i remember laughing at Amiga too for that reason!!
Woo! We got QUAKE!!
QUAKE!!!
hm... well we have GLquake, and yes...it runs at 30 fps...no we re not joking... we can ACTUALLY see what we re shooting at or where we re going.
Ahh the amiga fanboys... i thought you were relics of the past
good to see you back trying to convince people YOU made the right choice .
Go man!
BeckTropical 2 years ago
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blade004 2 years ago
The Amiga had a plethora of 3rd party support! I don't know what drugs you were smoking back then or what planet you were on, but the the sheer abundance of 3rd party support was absolutely astounding! What are you on these days? Crack Pipes?
And your right, the whole Quake thing was silly and i never even bothered with it because the Amiga had its own variants of 3D shooters such as Genetic Species. Quake was more of test to see if it could be done on an Amiga, nothing more, nothing less
blade004 2 years ago
Anyway, more to the point of what i was originally saying, because you completely missed my point which you have made absolutely NO reference too with your only form of argument being a 3D shooter!?
Think back to Windows 3.1, and compare that to an Amiga of the time with Windows 95 simply building on the Amiga's strength in an operational sense but doing it nowhere near as well (AT THAT TIME)
If you want to get onto games, the PC needed a shit load of power to even SCROLL a screen at 30fps
blade004 2 years ago
And no i am NOT a fanboy, i use a Windows PC for everything these days and probably switch my Amiga on once every few months because i KNOW its dead and it will NEVER make a comeback.
So don't worry, i AM living in reality TODAY, but it you who is pissing in the wind by not living in reality about what was a fact BACK THEN, with that fact being that Windows was an absolutely APPALLING Operating System!
You can bullshit to yourself all you want, and mentioning a game wont save face.
blade004 2 years ago
Windows 95 was what made windows windows. Even Vista looks a lot like it.
Ty4ons 3 years ago 3
Dammit, I remember that start me up commercial lol. I feel so old now. From what I remembered win95 was a freakin' mess. Naturally the famous BSOD was born
tkoizumi 3 years ago
The Direct Successor was Windows 3.11 or WIndows 3.1. Microsoft DOS (MS-DOS) 6.22 was the last DOS OS. Windows NT 3.5 was before NT 4.0
SpeeBeta1 3 years ago
omg... lol i remember when i was 6 in 99 and my mom got windows 98 se when it first came out. i crashed it that same day
creaturegreeny56 3 years ago 15
lol
Games5522 3 years ago
I started on Apple IIe. Loved basic, the games, hacking 5 1/4 floppies to copy to both sides. Then i moved to california and their crap education system. I didn't get access to a computer again until college days. On Mac it was so boring. A hard drive and a trash can. I thought "i can drag the hard drive to the trash. Yawn." On the pc running win 3.x i immediately found program groups and prince of persia and never bothered with mac again.
roclsdc 3 years ago 3
Windows 3.1 on the 9X cycle, on the general Windows cycle, Windows NT 3.5.
Shrimp4074 3 years ago
Windows 1.0 - 3.11 and some NT versions
mateczko 3 years ago
Windows For Workgroups 3.11
kargaroc386 3 years ago
Microsoft-dos 6.6 I believe, well thats what everybody used.
BorkGonsam 3 years ago
one epic launch of a os, i reackon
chaosmutt 3 years ago
i had a 95 once...it crashed too many times. I heard that was quite common on a 95
smashingpumpkinilu23 3 years ago
Gotta love how it fades out to a Mac desktop :p
paradoxbe88 3 years ago
the puter XD
Valientlink 3 years ago
usually i hate stuff like this ...hooky it'll change your life inventions ...but damn windows 95 was pretty big
joeytrimble 3 years ago 2
No BSOD This Time!
jm01231 4 years ago 4
Faster than bill Clinton..... Hehe
th3sp0rk 4 years ago 2
"Start Me Up" was a laugh...should've been another rock line, like "You make a grown man cry" or "Call the doctor, I think I'm gonna crash!"
SenorSpode 4 years ago 6
Notice how switching between two programs using the taskbar was an important feature. lol
cdecl22 4 years ago 7
It was. With Windows 3.x you had to press alt + tab to switch between programs or minimize them and open them from the desktop. Mac OS 7.5.x was even worse, as switching between programs required lots of clicking and dragging. People are often quick to ridicule Windows 95 for it's stability issues but aesthetically it was a massive breakthrough.
tigerclawfan 3 years ago 19
Dude, with the Mac systems, to switch back and forth from one app to the next, you have to click on the existing program and click on the other. MS Windows uses the Alt+Tab function. For Vista Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate, has the Win Key+Tab function aka Flip3D which you can switch faster than Alt+Tab b/c of the Aero Glass Style. Home Basic doesn't have that feature, and previewing apps on the task bar, and others that other types have.
bjwil32 3 years ago
wow. You haven't used a Mac in a while, have you? I haven't either, but I know very well about features such as Expose in OS X, as well as the dock. ;)
silvercondouloboy06 3 years ago
A massive breakthrough for Windows but not for some other computer systems that were doing it already prior to Windows 95.
blade004 3 years ago
What OS's were those?
Appule69 2 years ago
The OS i used before Windows 95 was one called "Workbench" which had nothing to do with Microsoft and was entirely independent Computing platform called the "Amiga" from a company called "Commodore" for which was the same company that brought us the Commodore 64.
I could flick back then between lets say a Comms program, a Paint package, Word Processor whilst playing music (known as a module back then in 4 channel stereo sound at 9 octaves) in only 2meg of ram with no slowdown :)
blade004 2 years ago 5
It's been a very long time since I used Win95, so I can't really remember it's performance. But it sounds like the reason for it being so slow was that it didn't use custom, or proprietary hardware. A possible price to pay to have a highly versatile machine?
Appule69 2 years ago
The reason for this speed of operation were things like shared libraries & custom chips to handle tasks independently to free up the CPU. There is a hell of a lot more to the Amiga OS Workbench that simply just that, but just to give you an idea, the main word that people used to describe the OS as was "elegant".
blade004 2 years ago 3
@tigerclawfan Minor correction Windows 2.x had Alt+TAB functionality. Windows 95 despite being a bit unstable, which was normal because it was basically ridding on top of DOS, had preemptive multitasking something only a handful of Operating Systems had.
nextstep333 1 year ago
THAT GIRL IS INTELLEGENT!!!!!!!!!
sparky4444444444444 4 years ago
I remember when I saw it on TV...and now...this shitty Vista...
Jakub1POLSKA 4 years ago 5
his name is Jiles...
haasmon92 4 years ago
Big circle?????? WTF is that. And the bird?????? WTF are those???
gsafly 4 years ago
An educational game, when the computer automatically launched the programs requested by the autorun file in the CD-ROM she put in.
SonicTheJackrabbit 4 years ago
tell that to the girl. lol.
th3sp0rk 3 years ago
I remember that bird!!!
FreddyFish!
Alexgeo4975 4 years ago
Actually The internet is a type of Network. yes. Windows 3.11 also had it
intel80386 4 years ago
how many frames pers second did 95' get?
looks like about 15.
ChocolateMilk831 4 years ago
most vga monitors of the day had 60hz refresh which is also what you ac in your home freq is... as well as a studio and cameras of the day.
goingwithzed 4 years ago
wuhu windows 95
reper455 4 years ago
Oh my Computer Chronicles!!!
I luved that show.
watchyourst3p 4 years ago
yea, it had an orig version without ie, could be installed later, and win95 with ie standard.
spunker88 4 years ago
yes
jmdefrancesco 4 years ago
yes.
SgtSavage166 4 years ago
I have a 95 machine, a 3.1 machine, an ME machine, and some floppies my friend gave to me with Windows 1.04. 1.04 is a prized system, but when I had to use arrow keys, a pain in the ass.
jacobdallen 4 years ago
I JUST FARTED ON A MAC.
theeggrules 4 years ago 2
Heyyyy.... war criminal Dick Cheney is in the audience at 0:14 !!!
Haha....I guess he is already making plans to use Windoze 95 to make his evil come true.
makkertje 4 years ago
Bill actually got a good haircut here, wonder why he didn't kepp it thaat way....
vbognot626 4 years ago
"I take the CD, put it in, click on it on the computer, then a circle comes, and the game comes."
sega3dmm 4 years ago
Each program could have its own screen resolution independantly on the same screen, and it could do this in only 14 mhz. Of course it was upgradable, but even the MAC didnt come close to the Unix based Amiga. "True" Multitasking, "True" Plug & Play.
blade004 5 years ago
Err, the original Amigas ran at 7.16mhz. The Amiga 1200 ran at 14mhz. Great machine. Worht noting the Amiga OS shared some design ideas with UNIX, but WASN'T didn't use any of that old garbage code. It was a fresh OS, which was nice.
jonah1976 4 years ago
Yeah i am aware that the original Amiga's such as the A1000 & A500 ran at 7.14 mhz ( some say 7.16, but does it really matter ), but i was just trying to be a little more up to date since WB 2.0 & 3.0 to me, were a big improvement over 1.2 and 1.3 :)
blade004 4 years ago