Windows 95 turns 20 years old this week!
Can you believe it? Where were you all this August 24th 1995 the day that Windows 95 was released? This software release change the world as we know it. When Microsoft unveiled Windows 95 they brought out stars they brought out rock bands they had a huge marketing campaign to release this new software. By the end of 1996 PCs we're taking over the market and suddenly everyone had to have one in their home. AOL Netscape became new words we all spoke about. Dial up 14 .4 modems 1 gigabyte hard drive and that beautiful turquoise background with those icon folders on your desktop and the very first ever start menu. Windows 95 was modified by using Microsoft plus suddenly geeks like myself could upgrade my computer change background and access utilities otherwise too difficult to even start to work with back in the dark days.
So do you remember where you were the day the windows 95 came out alright well let's not take it down to the day how about late 1995 what was life like how is it different than it is 20 years later I'll reflect on my own. Sunday afternoons we used to lay on the couch and watch PBS you remember the art classes with the fluffy clouds and the happy trees Bob Ross and his oil painting, or some sort of home improvement with the construction workers showing us how to saw and how to replace the roof. Tasks of which we would never take up on our own. Our only source of entertainment being our radios or are televisions. telephones actual court and telephones connected to the wall still graced our house.
My first computer was a hewlett-packard I purchase it from Service Merchandise on one of my very first credit card. It came with a printer monitor speakers keyboard mouse everything I needed. I brought my whopping 1 gigabyte hard drive home and I used it for a little while and then something went terribly wrong in the hard drive broke. It was a good thing because I was under warranty and hewlett-packard was kind enough to send a technician out to replace the hard drive. I was freely upgraded to a 1.5 gigabyte hard drive I could hardly contain myself. I saved my college papers on three and a half inch floppies. I pack my backpack full of them because files took up space and many floppies would be needed to take up photos and things along those lines. Just to remind those who do not remember floppies held 1.44 megabytes of data. Today a simple photo can hold more data than that. The Hewlett Packard computer came with a stack of CDs software free software a bundle of software so to speak and this bundle of software was valued at $1000. One of my favorite softwares I spent hours in joint was the Encarta Encyclopedia. This encyclopedia had moving videos and pictures on the computer color photos you could interact and click on things that would take you to other things within the CD itself. This is long before the internet long before the web was needed in order to interact. Over the lifespan of that Windows 95 computer I spent many hours behind it chain smoking cigarettes and playing video games King's Quest is one I remember fondly. I spent many hours inside of Microsoft Word and Office 95 and I remember my friendly paper clip that helped me the whole entire way.
So if you remember Windows 95 take a moment to reflect upon that operating system and all the software that went with it and all the time you put into it the crashes in the curses. And take a moment to see just how far we have come in the last 20 years with this software. Way back when Linux was too complicated for me and today I'm a great fan of that software as well Microsoft has always been something that I have enjoyed using because it was well my first operating system Windows 95 I was right there with Leisure Suit Larry in the predecessor of Windows 3.1 and I spent many hours on the internet way before the Internet was what it is today. I look forward in seeing how this technology can evolve even further over time it sure has come a long way in just 20 short years. way back when Linux was too complicated for me into damn a great fan of that software is well Microsoft has always been something that I have enjoyed using because it was well my first operating system windows 95 I was right there with leisure suit Larry in the process server of windows 3.1 and I spent many hours on the internet way before the internet was what is today. I look 14 seeing how this technology can evolve even further overtime it sure has come along way in just 20 sure years.
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