WINDOWS 95 APPRECIATION THREAD

"Nibby" (nibby68) 08/24/2015 at 09:00 • Filed to: None

11

31

Today is a very important day, not just for you and me, but for everyone. For today, we celebrate an industrial revolution, one of mankind’s greatest achievements. We acknowledge with the greatest honor that the best operating system ever made... and everyone’s favorite OS of all time... is turning 20 today.

So what are you waiting for? UPGRADE TODAY!

ChooChooMotherFudger > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 09:06

0

Someone please remind me, what is this again?

pip bip - choose Corrour > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 09:07

0

love that maze

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 09:07

2

Windows 95: 85 unknown units better than Windows 10.

Jcarr > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 09:08

1

The sounds:

Nibby > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/24/2015 at 09:11

0

yes

Nibby > ChooChooMotherFudger 08/24/2015 at 09:12

0

3D Maze screensaver

vondon302 > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 09:13

1

Ugh I’m old. I want to run dos on my 486. Much frowning.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > ChooChooMotherFudger 08/24/2015 at 09:14

1

Pretty much almost the most Epicest bestest game ever (not really though, but it looks similar to Wolfenstein 3d)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > pip bip - choose Corrour 08/24/2015 at 09:14

0

The gif doesn’t have the part where you run into the stone thing and flip upside down, though. Nor the animated seizure-fractal option for walls. Oh well.

pip bip - choose Corrour > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 08/24/2015 at 09:15

0

i remember it too well sadly.

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 09:15

0

Ehh I would say that 7 or 10 are better than 95 by a long shot. It was great in it’s time, but not having to reinstall every couple of months is pretty nice.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 09:20

0

Windows 95 really was a game changer for desktops on PCs. There was an upgrade that I vaguely recall that made it even better (better than the first release of 98, in my opinion at the time), but I cannot recall the name.

It wasn’t until they pushed their OS/2 (NT) downmarket that they surpassed that. Even then, they had to mimic it for general acceptance.

I kind of miss those days. Things were so much more authentic and relatively transparent in tech back then.

Oh yes, that “Get Windows 95” would be funnier if it was the right logo.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > vondon302 08/24/2015 at 09:23

0

I’ve still got my MS-DOS 5.0 reference.

Ash78, voting early and often > pip bip - choose Corrour 08/24/2015 at 09:31

2

Wait, where are all the Nazi soldiers?

Ash78, voting early and often > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 09:32

0

Remind me again...95 ran on DOS, but didn’t 98 finally break from DOS? Or was that 2000?

I mean, they still wisely kept the CMD prompt in there for the old-timers.

luvMeSome142 & some Lincoln! > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 09:34

0

Yep. But I’m pretty sure it was inspired by Casle Wolfenstein 3D or Catacomb 3D.

Nibby > Ash78, voting early and often 08/24/2015 at 09:36

1

NT3 came out in 93 or 94... and was DOS free.

95/98/Me were DOS based and 2000 was an upgraded NT4... and XP was essentially a replacement of 9x/Me and based on Windows 2000.

Nibby > Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. 08/24/2015 at 09:36

0

YOU ARE WRONG

Nibby > vondon302 08/24/2015 at 09:36

1

The desire for me to get an old system has greatly increased due to your comment.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Ash78, voting early and often 08/24/2015 at 09:41

0

never had any.

unless the screen saver one was a sanitised version.

NotUnlessRoundIsFunny > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 09:44

1

As part of our celebration let us not forget this:

wiffleballtony > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 09:51

0

I loved Windows 95.

Nibby > wiffleballtony 08/24/2015 at 09:51

0

<3

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 10:15

1

Official OS of the NibbyCorp world order

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 10:49

0

Does win 95 have DX11 or DX12, and boot in 15 seconds?

Nibby > Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. 08/24/2015 at 11:24

0

DX 8.0a baby... and it cna boot in 15 seconds!

MM54 > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 19:19

0

I still have a tower somewhere with Windows 95 on it. Last I checked (about three years ago) it still worked fine, I should fire it up some time...

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Nibby 08/24/2015 at 22:19

0

Our very first computer was a Pentium 133MHz with 32 MB EDO RAM, a 4x CD ROM, 2.1 GB hard drive, and 28.8k modem. It ran Windows 95, and was with us until just a few years ago.

Nibby > Snuze: Needs another Swede 08/24/2015 at 22:23

0

Great machine.

R.S.D. > Nibby 08/26/2015 at 15:55

0

20 years later, Microsoft was forced to return the Start Button to that Bastardized-OS-That-We-Shall-Not-Name [initiate death glare at Windows 8].

The only real interface change that Microsoft has since made is ribbons (and even that brought out the torches and pitchforks). Everything else is just an evolution of something originally in Windows 95.

THEY WILL TAKE MY START BUTTON FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS.

Nibby > R.S.D. 08/26/2015 at 16:50

0

lots of kernel changes as well, but in terms of interface, not a whole lot when you boil it down.