Click here to begin.

Windows 95's "Click here to begin" arrow. In case the "Start" text wasn't sufficient encouragement, Windows 95 would explicitly tell users to click the Start button in order to use the operating system.

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[rendus1]

Considering everyone was coming from Windows 3.1, and the Start button tucked away in the bottom corner was significantly different than "here's Program Manager, otherwise use File Manager to browse your filesystem to launch your programs", it made perfect sense to draw people's attention to it.

[GuilhermeRdeMS]

This demonstrates how we all have collectively evolved :)

[s3lvr]

OR just stuff it in start menu as it is not a feature you use all the time?

[QVear]

Shutdown button near clock would be just fine. Perhaps with "power switch" icon everyone's is familiar with.

[s3lvr]

ok this is popular joke, but how else they should had done it, put an end button? is that what you would like?

[QVear]

Only in windows: You click Start to turn computer off.

[CVDmarkII]

i only ever saw this once when i had windows 95. it was completely out of the blue, i didn't even know it was supposed to do that. never happened again, either, but then i always had something open.

[Vic Torg]

I still remember the feeling of the crunchy noise and the vibration of my desk made by the HDD r/w when I was clicking on My Computer

[andrisc]

So? I don't really see the point of this video?... You do realize that Windows 95 was released in 1995 and that the general IT understanding was a bit different to what it is today?

[darkowl9]

It isn't that people wouldn't get the Start button eventually. Back then you needed to teach the general populace to actually click it too. Remember how many websites had "click HERE to [...]" because the average joe didn't really understand links?

My dad is still getting used to computers, and I still have to instruct him to actually physically click the mouse on things from time to time. But I can see how now people might take that action of clicking for granted and find this amusing.