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Windows 95 Launch Day Celebrations (imgur.com)

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[–]The_Maddog 336 points337 points ago

It was a big thing.

If you never used 3.11 you wouldn't understand.

[–]johnturkey 70 points71 points ago

3.11 was just DOS in a pretty clown suit.

[–]AlexandriaLightHouse 30 points31 points ago

Weren't they ALL DOS underneath until they went to an NT base in 2000?

[–]DiscoUnderpants 17 points18 points ago

Not quite DOS. DOS runs in x86 standard mode. Windows 3.11 and WfW 3.11 had protected mode(and ran some things in full 32 bit... 32 bit disk drivers were a big deal). 3.11 could run DOSBoxes which were actual DOS instances running in 386 virtual mode. This is why WfW3.11 required a 386.

Win95 was kidn of the "ultimate conclusion" of 3.11... ie moving a bunch more stuff into 32 bit space(there were still some 16 bit DLLs about... the GUI ones mainly if I recall) and slapping a new UI on the whole mess to hide it :)

The day the 9x series died was a happy day for me.

[–]KarmaAndLies 2 points3 points ago

True but the abstraction was a lot deeper in 9x based Operating Systems.

You could make Windows 3.xx applications but few did. Contrast that with Windows 9x and everyone did...

[–]anras 16 points17 points ago

I much preferred to use plain ol' DOS for everything, except when I felt like playing FreeCell or SkiFree.

[–]SanDiegoDude 4 points5 points ago

3.0 was just DOS in a pretty clown suit.

3.11 was a HUGE improvement (although still very archaic by today's standards)

(edit, fixed from 3.1.1 to 3.11 - Sorry, old man memory failings)

[–]ProfessorD2 205 points206 points ago

Until you've had to deal with 8 charac~1 file names you'll never unders~1.

[–]busbusdriver 187 points188 points ago

I_still_dont_use_spaces_in_filenames.

[–]CTLance 59 points60 points ago

I will never get used to file extensions with more than 3 characters. I always have that initial urge to rename e.g. docx files.

[–]Icovada 23 points24 points ago

How about Pirated.Movies.With.Lots.Of.Dots.In.The.Filename.h264.HD-POIS0N.AAC.5.1.LOL.mkv

[–]Human-Genocide 22 points23 points ago

It just struck me how much of a dirty fucking thief bastard I am.

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    [–]busbusdriver 5 points6 points ago

    Yeah that took me a while too.

    [–]Vlyn 24 points25 points ago

    It's bad style to use spaces… and hell it sucks when you try the command line.

    Without space: \blabla\123_1\text_file.txt

    With space: "\blabla\123_1\text file.txt", sucks!

    [–]randolf_carter 32 points33 points ago

    Also when you upload to the web, the %20s get annoying

    [–]KarmaAndLies 2 points3 points ago

    Just use the tab key.

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        [–]NextName 7 points8 points ago

        Shit, I still have to deal with this when using CNC mills.

        [–]SirDerpingtonThe3rd 23 points24 points ago

        So much FFFUUUUU.

        Oh, you wanted to play Carmageddon? Too bad it's called CARMAG~1 and you'll have to search through every file to find it. DOS is an asshole, Boxer is the shit, though.

        [–]gilbertsmith 40 points41 points ago

        C:\GAMES\CAR\CAR.EXE

        [–]SirDerpingtonThe3rd 41 points42 points ago

        Fuck, what were the soundblaster pro settings, again? Guess I'm playing without sound...

        [–]gilbertsmith 62 points63 points ago

        SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND

        SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6

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              [–]keddren 19 points20 points ago

              You weren't there, man! You don't know!

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                [–]ScriptThat 573 points574 points ago

                You might laugh now, but compared to Windows 3.11 it was a godsend for the average user, and when NT4 came around in 1996 us IT people wept with joy.

                [–]njloof 149 points150 points ago

                FUCK YEAH FILENAMES WITH MORE THAN EIGHT CHARACTERS! YEAHHHHHHHHHH!

                [–]ComebackShane 102 points103 points ago

                I still can't bring myself to put spaces in my filenames. I know it's okay, it just feels ... wrong, somehow.

                [–]hypermog 37 points38 points ago

                As a Windows 7 user, I still can't bring myself to put the following characters in my filenames:

                \ / : * ? " < > |

                [–]ComebackShane 36 points37 points ago

                My god, you can do that now? Heresy!

                [–]EpicFishFingers 9 points10 points ago

                He's saying that you can't, we still can't do that for some reason

                [–]byte-smasher 16 points17 points ago

                Because allowing them would make parsing commands a pain in the freaking ass

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                  [–]kyleyankan 14 points15 points ago

                  I know that feel. I still use variable-name structures for mine. Never start with a number, CApitalize First letter of each word.

                  /makerFaire2012Photos/

                  [–]Sansarasa 8 points9 points ago

                  Lower camel case.

                  [–]mclellac 9 points10 points ago

                  I still cringe at directories or filenames that have capital letters in them. Especially if it's in a URL and I cannot do anything about it except wish that the web developer of the site gets hit by a bus.

                  Therapy didn't help either.

                  [–]JTxt 3 points4 points ago

                  "You are ok. It is wrong.txt"

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                    [–]zzaman 32 points33 points ago

                    This was an issue?!

                    Damn. I'm freakin' baby compared to some of you.

                    [–]cepheus42 9 points10 points ago

                    Yep. It was a huge issue back then. And it's still a huge issue, but the limit is just much bigger.

                    [–]notanon 13 points14 points ago

                    255 if memory serves right and we still have problems with it.

                    People saving to p:\folder\sub\sub\sub\sub\sub....\longfilename.docx becomes problematic when the server's 'p' is really short for f:\reallylongnamethatpushesthelimit

                    [–]CthuluVoIP 2 points3 points ago

                    Gotta love hitting a file character limit and having to map a drive to a folder a little closer to your goal to move forward.

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                      [–]chucky_z 45 points46 points ago

                      IT_WAS_A~.bat

                      [–]xmod2 78 points79 points ago

                      IT_WAS~1.bat

                      [–]ZeppelinJ0 57 points58 points ago

                      My game is somewhere in C:\Progra~1. Somewhere....

                      [–]stufff 14 points15 points ago

                      I love that this still works

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                        [–]BigBrotherBacon 15 points16 points ago

                        You have no idea what you're doing.

                        [–]chucky_z 6 points7 points ago

                        Thanks for pointing that out! :)

                        [–]busbusdriver 2 points3 points ago

                        Like I said before:

                        I_still_dont_use_spaces_in_filenames.

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                          [–]johnturkey 7 points8 points ago

                          You didn't get real long file names until XP

                          [–]The_MAZZTer 9 points10 points ago

                          Nope, support started with Windows NT 3.1 (though only for NTFS and not FAT) and Windows 95 (which extended FAT to support it).

                          Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_filename

                          The 255 character limit mentioned actually still exists today. It can be worked around by opening files using a special prefix which allows 64k-long names but most apps don't do this. Just the other day someone hit the 255 limit and got an error and I had to tell them they should shorten their super-long folder name.

                          [–]r3coil 8 points9 points ago

                          If you have a file buried very deep in a folder tree you will get an error when trying to move it.

                          It's great when this happens an hour into backing up a users files, effectively killing the transfer.

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                                [–]IWasGregInTokyo 168 points169 points ago

                                I'll second this. It was a HUGE leap forward and really brought the graphical interface to the masses in a way that the Mac wasn't able to at the time.

                                Didn't stop law firms from using DOS and WordPerfect for years afterwards though.

                                [–]cdoublejj 38 points39 points ago

                                well backwards compatibility is a door that swings both ways.

                                [–]I_Pee_Sitting_Up 59 points60 points ago

                                And daytime occurs when the sun is visible.

                                [–]6Revolvers 13 points14 points ago

                                I have a boner when I see hot ladies.

                                [–]KyrieEleison_88 20 points21 points ago

                                I read this comment in Forest Gump's voice

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                                  [–]Bazingabowl 11 points12 points ago

                                  Forward compatibility?!

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                                    [–]ShaneThompson 14 points15 points ago

                                    My law firm still has WordPerfect installed on every machine, in addition to MS Office. Hell, I'd say for legal drafting, WordPerfect is still preferable.

                                    [–]stateinspector 11 points12 points ago

                                    I have no experience in law firms, but why is that? Old lawyers are stubborn? Certain templates have never been updated?

                                    [–]bananahead 2 points3 points ago

                                    Here's the thing: WordPerfect is actually pretty good at drafting legal documents. Not only did it offer better templates than the alternatives it had a better templating system. And legal documents are all about templates. You don't write a contract to buy a building by sitting down at a blank screen...

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                                      [–]the__funk 2 points3 points ago

                                      I found out the other day they still made new versions...

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                                        [–]fuelvolts 25 points26 points ago

                                        Oh God, we have an old lawyer in our firm that insists on still using WordPerfect. It's nearly impossible for me to work on files with him, as they always looked screwed up when opening in Word. We're trying to get him to change to LaTex since he knows that, too.

                                        [–]shamrockjew 5 points6 points ago

                                        I have students that still use WordPerfect. Zamzar offers free, fast file conversion so you could work on his stuff without the crap characters. That being said, you would have to keep converting after he added more.

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                                          [–]undergroundPOP 10 points11 points ago

                                          The joke's on me. I currently work at a place that still uses a DOS program to process orders and maintain inventory.

                                          [–]reddiculon 15 points16 points ago

                                          For processing orders and inventory, MS-DOS is more than capable.

                                          Not ideal, but it's requirements are fairly basic meaning it will run on any piece of crap old machine laying around, and if the software does the job (more or less), there isn't much incentive for management to upgrade.

                                          [–]undergroundPOP 33 points34 points ago

                                          We're a company that sells computer parts.

                                          Directed by: M. Night Shamylan

                                          [–]sooner_bluff 5 points6 points ago

                                          That is more common than you know. Freaking Dell still uses a DOS/Unix application for order processing and quoting!

                                          [–]hailunix 3 points4 points ago

                                          I assume you mean to say command line utility since there is a pretty wide gap between DOS and Unix. For instance OS X is Unix.

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                                                [–]stufff 1 point2 points ago

                                                Most law firms still use Word Perfect

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                                                  [–]opaeoinadi 43 points44 points ago

                                                  I remember the switch. Hell, I used DOShell for months until my father picked up win3.1 on floppies. The upgrade to win95 was mindblowing, and I do remember the news of people going crazy in the stores like this picture.

                                                  [–]SlipStreamBlitz 57 points58 points ago

                                                  Putting Weezer's Buddy Holly on the disc was an awesome touch.

                                                  [–]easyantic 19 points20 points ago

                                                  I still haven't bothered to watch Rob Roy though...

                                                  [–]jpowell180 6 points7 points ago

                                                  It's not too bad - you get to see Oskar Schindler slice up Ringo from Pulp Fiction...a real 90's moment right there....

                                                  [–]satertek 11 points12 points ago

                                                  This is the very reason I thought Weezer was a 70s band until my early 20s......

                                                  [–]KyleChief[S] 19 points20 points ago

                                                  How many floppies were required to store win3.1? I would imagine a lot right?

                                                  [–]opaeoinadi 35 points36 points ago

                                                  6 - 7, if I remember correctly. It was all compressed, etc.

                                                  [–]Pornman101 31 points32 points ago

                                                  6 for windows 3.1 8 for 3.11

                                                  [–]spankr 11 points12 points ago

                                                  Remember which one had the printer drivers?

                                                  [–]atlusblue 49 points50 points ago

                                                  which ever one that got lost when it was needed.

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                                                        [–]bandman614 25 points26 points ago

                                                        Win95 A was also distributed on floppies as an alternate for people who didn't have CD-ROMs yet.

                                                        I think it was something like 30 disks.

                                                        [–]Schlorbian 57 points58 points ago

                                                        Nope. Win95 was on 13 3.5 floppies. I installed it on 75-some-odd Packard Hell 486SX2/50s without CD-ROM drives back in the '90s, so, yep, having done it probably more than 90 times, I'll always remember. 13.

                                                        How? Disk 1 was your standard 1.44mb HD, but the other 12 were all formatted DMF for 1.68mb then compressed.

                                                        *Edit: WinNT was only 22. Compression!

                                                        [–]m1ss1l3 8 points9 points ago

                                                        how many times did those floppies get corrupted ?

                                                        [–]Schlorbian 7 points8 points ago

                                                        They were DMF, so, over, and over, and over, and over again, endlessly. Used to keep disk images of them ready to write to fresh floppies.

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                                                                [–]MrJacoste 36 points37 points ago

                                                                The second coming was windows 7, I love windows 7 as an IT person. Haven't had your coffee and need to search for an obscure option toggle? Search bar dude.

                                                                [–]NervousMcStabby 35 points36 points ago

                                                                Windows 7 is the best OS Microsoft has released by far. Even after Windows 8's release that'll probably still be true.

                                                                [–]Lepryy 11 points12 points ago

                                                                I am currently on Windows 8 RTM final. I can say that so far Windows 8 is far superior to Windows 7. You'll see. YOU'LL ALL SEE!!!!

                                                                [–]undiplomatik 4 points5 points ago

                                                                Gosh, Windows 9 is gonna ROCK!

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                                                                  [–]throqu 8 points9 points ago

                                                                  love that it's also harder for users to screw things up as bad as they could on XP. (not that they cannot, just usually less badly)

                                                                  [–]Unisenon 12 points13 points ago

                                                                  I was told to delete C:/windows/system32 to make my computer run faster, but I can't. sadface.png

                                                                  [–]deletecode 4 points5 points ago

                                                                  Windows 7 kinda screwed up the task bar and some other UI, though. No more shift-select multiple tabs to close (must be done from task manager now). "Pin to task bar" works slightly, but feels like they half implemented it. They removed an essential sound card feature needed for amateur recording.

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                                                                    [–]Suurvisiiri 37 points38 points ago

                                                                    Windows 95 was also a big drawback for gamers. It took all of your precious RAM and none of your games started anymore without some serious tweaking.

                                                                    [–]raydeen 35 points36 points ago

                                                                    Actually, the reverse was true in some respects. Thanks to virtual memory, there were some DOS games that actually ran a little bit better (Cybermage and TES:Arena come to mind) with small amounts of memory. I had 8 megs of ram for quite few years and 95 actually ran some of my games when DOS wouldn't. There was a bit of a performance hit to be sure but it was an equitable tradeoff until I could afford more ram.

                                                                    [–]Chill33 33 points34 points ago

                                                                    " I had 8 megs of ram for quite few years"

                                                                    That makes me cringe uncontrollably

                                                                    [–]GazUtd 48 points49 points ago

                                                                    How will you feel when I tell you I used to have to mess around with memmaker in DOS to free up 512k of memory so a program would run.

                                                                    [–]beelzerus 43 points44 points ago

                                                                    Make sure you have HIMEM.SYS and throw DOS=HIGH into your CONFIG.SYS. Keep the kernel in the high memory area to free up more conventional memory. Don't load too many TSRs!

                                                                    Damn, shit froze up again. Must have a conflict on my IRQs or DMAs.

                                                                    [–]audiotechnica 19 points20 points ago

                                                                    Also, make sure you load HIMEM.SYS with NOEMS, otherwise you'll have like 400kB base RAM free. I had DOS=UMB,HIGH, HIMEM loaded with NOEMS, all drivers in high memory (DEVICEHIGH= in CONFIG.SYS and LH in AUTOEXEC.BAT) and always had 621kB base memory free. All my games ran perfectly.

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                                                                      [–]b0w3n 18 points19 points ago

                                                                      I remember my father putting individual ram components into the motherboard at some point there. I think we upgraded from something like 4 meg to 8 meg that day.

                                                                      Flight simulator 5 never ran so smooth.

                                                                      [–]daspader 3 points4 points ago

                                                                      FS1 in 4 color RGB was sweet with 128K upgrade

                                                                      [–]beertastic 11 points12 points ago

                                                                      That is how I learned computers. By figuring out how to run games.

                                                                      Now I'm a programmer.

                                                                      [–]ravenpen 16 points17 points ago

                                                                      512k of memory? That was a luxury my friend. I remember when we upgraded our Apple IIe from 64k to 128k just so we could play Black Cauldron.

                                                                      [–]thrush77 6 points7 points ago

                                                                      Commodore64 here ... 64k OMG so much!

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                                                                        [–]no_talent_ass_clown 3 points4 points ago

                                                                        I remember in 2000 computer school the instructor said he had 1gb of RAM on his home machine and were all floored. Said it cost upwards of $1000.

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                                                                          [–]raydeen 10 points11 points ago

                                                                          Yeah, '91 - '97 I think. Ram was damn expensive back then. An additional 8 megs would have run me over $100 in the early days. To give you an idea of prices back then, my brother-in-law had a 40 meg HD and upgraded to a 210 meg HD at the cost of around $800. My first system was a 486 DX-33, 180 MB HD, 8 MB ram, 1 5.25 floppy, 1 3.5 floppy, no sound card, no CD drive, no modem, a 256 color video card with a 14" CRT and the whole shebang was around $2650 which was a steal at that time.

                                                                          [–]IronMackrel 6 points7 points ago

                                                                          i remember laptops being around $5000 too. Giant 12 pound monsters.

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                                                                            [–]dogpaddle 3 points4 points ago

                                                                            Sort of like if someone says their daily user computer only has 512 megs of ram. shudder

                                                                            E: Actually I just realized with the advent of tablets and netbooks this isn't quite as bad. But still!

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                                                                              [–]pewpnstuff 3 points4 points ago

                                                                              Commander motherfucking Keen.

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                                                                                [–]cycopl 12 points13 points ago

                                                                                Except you could just exit windows and just run the games from DOS like normal. Then go back into windows when you were done.

                                                                                [–]stufff 11 points12 points ago

                                                                                I remember when ME and XP came out and I was skeptical about how good an idea it was for Windows not to be sitting on top of DOS anymore.

                                                                                [–]RedAero 5 points6 points ago

                                                                                I'm still skeptical. I want to play Monkey Island properly without DOSBox.

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                                                                                  [–]NullSleepN64 6 points7 points ago

                                                                                  What was wrong with 'restart in ms-dos mode'?

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                                                                                      [–]JakeVanderArkWriter 64 points65 points ago

                                                                                      Didn't this come with the Weezer video to show off it's capabilities? I was in fifth grade at the time and I thought Weezer actually performed on Happy Days...

                                                                                      I loved Windows 95.

                                                                                      [–]funkgerm 26 points27 points ago

                                                                                      Yes it did. It was to show off Windows Media Player.

                                                                                      [–]44problems 22 points23 points ago

                                                                                      It came with two videos:

                                                                                      Edie Brickell - Good Times

                                                                                      Weezer - Buddy Holly

                                                                                      [–]moojj 12 points13 points ago

                                                                                      Holy shit, I remember that!

                                                                                      "WTF is happy days doing on my computer? Oh, it's 256colour full frame avi! Nice"

                                                                                      [–]PillowRage 3 points4 points ago

                                                                                      And the game Hover!

                                                                                      [–]satertek 6 points7 points ago

                                                                                      I thought Weezer actually performed on Happy Days...

                                                                                      I'm not the only one!

                                                                                      Though it did take until college for me to realize this...mind was blown.

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                                                                                        [–]ToastNYC 29 points30 points ago

                                                                                        I feel like the guy in front may illegally copy and distribute that piece of software.

                                                                                        [–]ecu11b 8 points9 points ago

                                                                                        How hard would that be to do in 95?

                                                                                        [–]throqu 14 points15 points ago

                                                                                        only hard if you wanted to put it on a CD-ROM, once burners were fairly common, not hard at all.

                                                                                        source, I never owned a legit copy of 95 or 98

                                                                                        [–]clarkster 53 points54 points ago

                                                                                        K4HVD-Q9TJ9-6CRX9-C9G68-RQ2D3

                                                                                        [–]James_Hacker 2 points3 points ago

                                                                                        Two floppy drives and a lot of patience?

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                                                                                          [–]Phoenix_786 73 points74 points ago

                                                                                          That man can't wait to install Windows 95 on top of Windows 95

                                                                                          [–]raydeen 118 points119 points ago

                                                                                          He wanted Windows 190.

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                                                                                            [–]The_High_Life 90 points91 points ago

                                                                                            Why is Flea so excited?

                                                                                            [–]chordsNcode 41 points42 points ago

                                                                                            Clearly that is Steve Martin.

                                                                                            [–]towel_tosser 16 points17 points ago

                                                                                            I bought Windows 95 from the Flea Martin last week.

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                                                                                              [–]rr777 62 points63 points ago

                                                                                              At this time wasn't Apple accepting donations of any type.

                                                                                              [–]uncommented 39 points40 points ago

                                                                                              Yes; Steve Jobs had actually left the company during that period (he was busy with NEXT and later Pixar), and they were making a pretty bad product.

                                                                                              [–]JustCallMeBen 37 points38 points ago

                                                                                              'Left' as in he got fired for being a stubborn tyrant terrorizing employees.

                                                                                              [–]SVDStandOut 28 points29 points ago

                                                                                              Yet people believe he was treated unfairly. Don't get me wrong, Apple needed Jobs, but Jobs was a fucking asshole.

                                                                                              [–]guywhoishere 17 points18 points ago

                                                                                              Yeah, this was just before Jobs returned to Apple with the purchase of NeXT in late 1996, he was CEO by mid 1997.

                                                                                              [–]SanDiegoDude 2 points3 points ago

                                                                                              iCEO - He insisted he was the interim CEO for quite a long time, well past 2000 if I recall... Need to read his biography again.

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                                                                                                  [–]sprashoo 34 points35 points ago

                                                                                                  Apple was still quite profitable in 1995. It was 1996-1997 when the shit hit the fan for them, due largely to the perception that Windows 95 was pretty much as good as System 7 but ran on cheap hardware and had many more games, plus terrible inventory management by Apple that had them continually out of stock of Macs people wanted, while warehouses full of other Macs (cough... Performas) that nobody wanted to buy gathered dust.

                                                                                                  Steve Jobs was running NeXT Computer at the time and convinced Apple to buy NeXT for its NeXTStep OS in 1996, since Apple was desperate for a modern OS after several failed attempts to modernize System 7. Jobs taking over Apple was not part of Apple's plan (or even Jobs' plan, if you believe what he says about it) at the time. Apple's CEO Gil Amelio thought they were just buying OS technology, plus getting a bit of nice PR by bringing back Apple's co-founder as an advisor. Shortly after, though, Amelio found himself fired by the board and Jobs was running the show, and the rest is history.

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                                                                                                    [–]xxcaponexx 36 points37 points ago

                                                                                                    Anybody remember the retail price for a copy of windows 95?

                                                                                                    [–]IinventedGoogle 42 points43 points ago

                                                                                                    Ten cents, and you had to walk ten miles in the snow, uphill both ways, to get it.

                                                                                                    Seriously though, I think it was like $200 or so. I never had it, but my friend's dad was big into computers, and he talked about it a bit. I was 15 in 1995, at my house we still had an old Macintosh that didn't do a whole lot.

                                                                                                    [–]givemeafreakinbreak 10 points11 points ago

                                                                                                    I remember a box of 20 blank floppies was about ten bucks.

                                                                                                    [–]Pornman101 28 points29 points ago

                                                                                                    $209 http://lmgtfy.com/?q=windows+95+launch+price

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                                                                                                      [–]verstand 382 points383 points ago

                                                                                                      Hard to believe all these people are dead now...

                                                                                                      [–]bjs2 225 points226 points ago

                                                                                                      wat.

                                                                                                      [–]Cormophyte 138 points139 points ago

                                                                                                      Only 90's kids will agree with that comment.

                                                                                                      [–]garaging 147 points148 points ago

                                                                                                      It's true

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                                                                                                        [–]DrPoopingPooperson 65 points66 points ago

                                                                                                        This picture is from the World Trade Center

                                                                                                        [–]Sierus 19 points20 points ago

                                                                                                        This may or may not be true, but my mother taught me never doubt a doctor.

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                                                                                                            [–]howitzer86 3 points4 points ago

                                                                                                            Well... if they were 48 in 1995, they will be 70 in 5 years.

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                                                                                                              [–]Mouchinator 11 points12 points ago

                                                                                                              All I can think of is that video Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston made about Windows 95.

                                                                                                              [–]SirDerpingtonThe3rd 3 points4 points ago

                                                                                                              "I'll be there for you...when it BSOD's"

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                                                                                                                [–]sarl00 10 points11 points ago

                                                                                                                Sad thing is some computers are still run on Windows 95 at my work. I work at a cable company and our local weather/ad station is run on 95 and every once and a while they will reboot and the whole town can see the old Windows 95 start up screen on channel 2.

                                                                                                                [–]AxeManActual 33 points34 points ago

                                                                                                                It was a different time. A happier time. I was in Little League and my day consisted of Nikelodeon and grilled cheese. Siiiiigh

                                                                                                                [–]Ovechtrick 20 points21 points ago

                                                                                                                You can still live 2/3 of that glory. I wouldn't recommend you join a little league team.

                                                                                                                [–]GundamWang 8 points9 points ago

                                                                                                                Assistant coach!

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                                                                                                                    [–]moosaveenya 19 points20 points ago

                                                                                                                    Good to see that John McEnroe was such a fan of Microsoft.

                                                                                                                    [–]raydeen 8 points9 points ago

                                                                                                                    I've only done midnight launch events twice: Windows 95 and WoW:TBC. Fun times but I'm older and more patient now. :)

                                                                                                                    [–]d00dsm00t 7 points8 points ago

                                                                                                                    ...and all was serene

                                                                                                                    [–]exorbitantwealth 7 points8 points ago

                                                                                                                    For Windows 8 release day my employer is making everyone involved in tech to come to work, even if you are not scheduled. We even have special Windows 8 shirts to wear. If I see something like this happening I will be sure to take a picture and post it on reddit. Don't hold your breath.

                                                                                                                    [–]AFewSecondsAgoDouche 93 points94 points ago

                                                                                                                    The children here who've probably never even used Windows 95, or perhaps weren't even born in 95, don't realise that Windows 95 was a mindblowing advancement in IT.

                                                                                                                    What they're doing in that picture is a million times better than the pathetic freaks who line up for days on end for new Apple products and then jizz all over their pants when they get to pay for them.

                                                                                                                    [–]sockpupppet 42 points43 points ago

                                                                                                                    Dropping into 95 on a new computer after using Windows 3.1 for years on a dinky 486DX machine was a fucking game changer.

                                                                                                                    [–]moojj 36 points37 points ago

                                                                                                                    My PC had a "Turbo" button. I turbo'ed the shit out of Windows 95!

                                                                                                                    [–]Capissen38 12 points13 points ago

                                                                                                                    I remember my mother getting upset at me using turbo mode on our DX2 because she thought it would wear out the engine, or something analogous to it.

                                                                                                                    [–]daspader 4 points5 points ago

                                                                                                                    I over locked my 286-12 to 20Mhz fairly stabile with new heat sink and soldered socket clock crystal.

                                                                                                                    [–]Capissen38 3 points4 points ago

                                                                                                                    And here I thought fucking around with a dozen jumpers to overclock Socket 7 systems was a pain in the ass...

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                                                                                                                      [–]tothegarbage2 11 points12 points ago

                                                                                                                      I was so jealous of my friend who had a Pentium 200mhz running windows 95. He could play Quake without having to boot into dos! Quake!

                                                                                                                      [–]jasonrubik 8 points9 points ago

                                                                                                                      It was. I was 16 and still used an IBM PS/2 16 MHz with 1MB Ram and DOS 6.22. Had to upgrade in order to run Win 95. My bro and I had the VHS tapes called "mastering the transition from windows 3.1 to win 95". All i remember is "the 16 bit applications are cooperatively multi-tasked within a 32 bit preemptive task"

                                                                                                                      [–]BearDown1983 7 points8 points ago

                                                                                                                      Gah. The first time you ever got the boot up sequence for Win95. You remember that?

                                                                                                                      Then... the Encarta. OH GOD THE ENCARTA

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                                                                                                                        [–]Bitlovin 9 points10 points ago

                                                                                                                        Yeah, kids these days probably don't even remember parking hard drives. GET OFF MY LAWN.

                                                                                                                        [–]Mormon_Buddhist 6 points7 points ago

                                                                                                                        "Start me up! Once you start me up I'll never stop..."

                                                                                                                        [–]PurpleSfinx 13 points14 points ago

                                                                                                                        What they're doing in that picture is a million times better than the pathetic freaks who line up for days on end for new Apple products and then jizz all over their pants when they get to pay for them.

                                                                                                                        That's a circlejerky comment even for reddit.

                                                                                                                        "People who line up for x product are intelligent and wise! People who line up for Y product are dumb!" seriously??

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                                                                                                                          [–]Nuroman 5 points6 points ago

                                                                                                                          I still remember using one of the betas of Windows 95 and not being able to wait until the finished product was out.

                                                                                                                          I don't remember any of the differences between that beta and the finished product, other than on the load screen, instead of the blue gradient moving across the bottom of the screen there were red triangles.

                                                                                                                          Something like this I couldn't find an image of the exact way it looked.

                                                                                                                          [–]beeper917 32 points33 points ago

                                                                                                                          I'm sure the Windows 8 launch will be JUST like this.

                                                                                                                          [–]funkgerm 92 points93 points ago

                                                                                                                          Pretty much, minus all the people.

                                                                                                                          [–]jb2386 4 points5 points ago

                                                                                                                          I just heard on the radio in my car that a particular chain of shops here (Harvey Norman, in Australia) are having a 'midnight launch' for Windows 8. I think they're gonna regret paying staff double-time for maybe 5 customers?

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                                                                                                                            [–]AgentGlaze 10 points11 points ago

                                                                                                                            What did people do on their Windows 95?

                                                                                                                            [–]drneanderthal 38 points39 points ago

                                                                                                                            Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

                                                                                                                            [–]UnclaimedUsername 9 points10 points ago

                                                                                                                            Those cutscenes were the most badass thing I had seen in my young life.

                                                                                                                            [–]Somnivore 7 points8 points ago

                                                                                                                            ZUGZUG

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                                                                                                                              [–]sharpchompers 56 points57 points ago

                                                                                                                              Played their weezer video and watched their maze screensaver.

                                                                                                                              [–]AstralTraveller 17 points18 points ago

                                                                                                                              Don't forget the hovercraft game!

                                                                                                                              [–]7th 4 points5 points ago

                                                                                                                              This hit me with nostalgia, but I can't actually remember the game itself.

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                                                                                                                                  [–]you_sir_are_wrong 22 points23 points ago

                                                                                                                                  doom

                                                                                                                                  [–]anotherDocObVious 3 points4 points ago

                                                                                                                                  That, my friend, is the right answer.

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                                                                                                                                    [–]pan0ramic 10 points11 points ago

                                                                                                                                    There were lots of cools games back then, and there was the internet for us first-adopters. Some games include the very first versions of Sim City (although I think there was a sequel by this time), civilization, warcraft, etc

                                                                                                                                    [–]crookedview 7 points8 points ago

                                                                                                                                    Minesweeper.

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                                                                                                                                      [–]bujweiser 8 points9 points ago

                                                                                                                                      "So happy, I'm going to buy 2 copies!"

                                                                                                                                      [–]NullSleepN64 17 points18 points ago

                                                                                                                                      Conspiracy theory time. He may have owned two computers.

                                                                                                                                      [–]bujweiser 10 points11 points ago

                                                                                                                                      Whoa now. Are you saying that people had 2 computers in the 90's???

                                                                                                                                      [–]NullSleepN64 30 points31 points ago

                                                                                                                                      ok, second theory. He owns no computers but just fucking loves boxes.

                                                                                                                                      [–]pinguz 3 points4 points ago

                                                                                                                                      So effectively, he's a cat?

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                                                                                                                                          [–]ReddTor 2 points3 points ago

                                                                                                                                          The games man, the f@*king GAMES!

                                                                                                                                          [–]methyldope 4 points5 points ago

                                                                                                                                          He's just excited to hear a new Brian Eno release - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Eno#The_Microsoft_Sound

                                                                                                                                          [–]SoulLessGinger992 14 points15 points ago

                                                                                                                                          This looks exactly like an Apple product launch.

                                                                                                                                          [–]BigTuna820 14 points15 points ago

                                                                                                                                          I was only 11, but I didn't realize people did the whole launch day/excited about new software thing back then. Figured it was still too new at that point. Too busy watching TMNT I guess.

                                                                                                                                          [–]nilhaus 33 points34 points ago

                                                                                                                                          Windows 95 was a huge leap forward. While 3.11 was usable compared to prior software, 95 really let everyone and their grandma use computers. Sort of like the Model-T. Sure, there were cars before it, but this was the one that changed everything for the common person.

                                                                                                                                          [–]Schlorbian 12 points13 points ago

                                                                                                                                          Win 3.1 & Win95's application interfaces weren't that different - Click on WordPerfect for Windows, it opens up, click your print button for print and the floppy button to save. Win 3.1 had that aspect that Windows 95 didn't really elaborate on. The big change for "dumb" users? Autoplay.

                                                                                                                                          What Windows 95 did do for most of us "regular somewhat knowledgeable users" though, was make the under-the-hood stuff very serviceable, with a sensible Control Panel and Device Manager (which haven't really changed too much since if you think about it) that prior to Win 95 mostly involved arcane combinations for the most basic of "modern" computing necessities. Like "SET BLASTER" commands and fucking around with EMM/XMM. You install the software, double click on the icon, and it opens and works. It's like a Mac - Except Win95, unlike System 7, isn't going to decide to corrupt it's OS files on a biannual basis.

                                                                                                                                          [–]oranjepig 7 points8 points ago

                                                                                                                                          SET BLASTER - instant tear of nostalgia

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                                                                                                                                            [–]BigTuna820 3 points4 points ago

                                                                                                                                            I understand it was a big step. I grew up with DOS and 3.1 as my dad worked for IBM and we always had the latest and greatest. But, I didn't realize it was a release day excitement kind of thing. I thought it was more of a quick adoption and realization by everyone that this OS is a game changer. Again, I was still young and ignant.

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                                                                                                                                              [–]Trickster174 5 points6 points ago

                                                                                                                                              I was 10 at that time, but I remember the crazy amount of commercials and my parents waiting in line at I think Circuit City.

                                                                                                                                              10 year old me was not pleased to have to wait in line with my parents for some stupid computer launch thing. 27 year old me has stood in line for quite a few software/hardware launches, so. Growing up!

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                                                                                                                                                [–]biggie101 3 points4 points ago

                                                                                                                                                My family got Windows 95 pretty early too. My dad hated Microsoft but he had a way of getting their OS's pretty quickly. That stopped after Windows ME though. He refused XP and we ended up going straight to Vista SP3 from Windows 2000.

                                                                                                                                                I kinda miss Windows 3.11 after seeing it discussed so much in this thread. Good times. Windows 95 was super cool when we first got to use it, but i remember it being a huge learning curve for my sister and I (we were less than 10 years old I think).

                                                                                                                                                [–]MotorBoats 5 points6 points ago

                                                                                                                                                "I'm not Skank. That's Skank right there. Skank's dead."

                                                                                                                                                [–]keesh 4 points5 points ago

                                                                                                                                                Can we get a picture of the Windows ME launch?

                                                                                                                                                [–]eddymurphyscouch 4 points5 points ago

                                                                                                                                                Windows 95 had the best commercials! "START..."

                                                                                                                                                [–]gak001 4 points5 points ago

                                                                                                                                                Where do you want to go today?

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                                                                                                                                                  [–]gosso920 4 points5 points ago

                                                                                                                                                  I still preferred OS/2 Warp.

                                                                                                                                                  [–]celebes_america 2 points3 points ago

                                                                                                                                                  This picture sums up just about every reason I'm glad we're well past the 1990s now.

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