Nostalgic Soundscapes S01E02 | Forgotten | Windows 95 Retro Ambient
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- Опубликовано: 30 янв 2024
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Nostalgic Soundscapes Season 1 Episode 2 Forgotten
Welcome! to my new ambient series! in this realm we will explore all different types of nostalgic, retro and older styles of sounds, visuals and emotions ranging from old VHS films to first ever computer sounds/visuals etc.
In this episode we will be looking at an ambient track made exclusively out of Windows 95 sounds! Brian Eno was tasked with composing a short piece for Microsoft to use in the start up sound for the early windows PC's in the 90s.
My music is NOT to be used for videos, or re-distributions anywhere else, if you'd like to collaborate or feature my music contact me via my email in my ''about'' page.
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No Midjourney or any other AI’s has been used to make this video happen 
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for those asking where can you download/buy this season of nostalgic soundscapes, it WILL be released once episode 10 airs, so in the meantime feel free to check out my other music, who knows maybe you'll like it! retrovex.bandcamp.com
I composed an ambient track using nostalgic elements reminiscent of a certain iconic operating system, maybe some of you might like it, old-school vibes guaranteed!
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10/10
When you try setting your PC to sleep mode but it ends up in 'meditate'...
this is awesome, I haven't ran into a anyone who has managed to make a legit ambient track with nostalgia elements from our real world like this.. superb!
good stuff
Im listening in Yamaha HS8 in a studio
I can hear u did an awesome work with sub and low bass fq
Amaising!
After private computers were invented, but before social media, there was a golden age. All computing was associated with visual images of green meadows and rolling hills, occasionally with rustic structures such as Greek ruins or Maine county estates. We were not being monitored nor spied on, and we were free to look at whatever website we wished and find our own niches. We unfortunately do not realise true value, until we cant get it anymore.
I'm crying now that I remember those days
I remember so much those Friday nights spent on ICQ and on newgrounds…
Late 90s, spent many nights trouble shooting my broken down PC lol.
The man who needs to pay with his own life about it is Mark Zuckerberg
Yeah man, very well explained. This was OUR wild west!
I used to be jealous of younger people and children being born. They had their whole life ahead of them and so much time to live and experience everything. But then I thought a lot and reached the conclusion: Growing up before smartphones and social media was incredible. Humans will never have that again, there will always be ubiquitous technology now. Things were slower, things were calmer, things were better in many ways. This post is dedicated to all the 80's and 90's kids out there. Godspeed.
Great thoughts
Let's not forget that those were the years right after the cold war. The past is always better, especially if you had your teen years there, until you realise it's just another bias.
@@john91051 exactly. Nostalgia is a powerful, addictive drug. It takes effort to realize that it's a feeling, not a fact.
I used to be jealous of younger people and children being born. They had their whole life ahead of them and so much time to live and experience everything. But then I thought a lot and reached the conclusion: Growing up before steam engines and electric lighting was incredible. Humans will never have that again, there will always be ubiquitous technology now. Things were slower, things were calmer, things were better in many ways. This post is dedicated to all the 1780's and 1790's kids out there. Godspeed.
@@n8pls543 my post laments the takeover of the mind and emotions by modern technology and the corporatization of the internet....comparing my thoughts to a steam engine, horse and buggy, etc. while amusing, misses the point.
When us 90's kids pass away, this is what we'll hear as we go to the Great Beyond.
We will go to the Sacramento valley in the sky
No!
Do not go gently into that "good" night.
Rage. *RAGE!* against the dying of the light.
We've lost enough!
@@stevejordan7275 I don't know; I like the idea of peacefully fading away listening to this.
@@stevejordan7275 true. I want my retaliation against time :P
I highly doubt that 90's kids used Windows 95.
I keep coming back here. It’s not that I miss the past, it’s that I miss the future that we never got. Something hasn’t felt right since the early 2000’s. I can’t be the only 80’s/90’s kid that feels this way.
it all leads back to 9/11, 2007 GFC, and the indoctrination of our youth in our schools to hate each other left or right, breaking the social fabric that once united a nation - think of the madness the gender topic is causing. In addition the complete dissolution of the middle class; now its just rich and poor - the rich have choices and can buy their politicians, the poor will vote for the party that gives them handouts - the middle class a.k.a "independent thinkers" have been wiped out - as planned.
There is no future vision for the current and next generation.
Those in power can't have us peasants enjoying ourselves or becoming self aware too much.
You got that right. So many theories as to why. I wonder often if there's a way to reverse the negative trend.
Everything is corporate now, souless.
everything went wrong on and after 9/11.
This gets me pretty emotional. The internet had a lot more soul back then. Reminds me of spending countless hours finding fan sites and other hidden gems.
Exactly. Much more of a pirate radio vibe with no one to tell us we were doing it wrong. It was glorious.
a fan site ? what's that...
@@BobbyMasteria people would make websites dedicated to an interest. Pokemon was a big one I remember.
same........yes.....a moment in time were the future looked so bright and beautiful. Lucky we were able to experience that feeling.
@@TimLewallen It was the wild west. 🤠
It's funny how everyone that grew up in the 80's and 90's seems to agree that computers, the internet and life in general was much more fun back in the day, especially before social media came around. Although we now have technology we could only dream of back then, there was much more serenity and peace when surfing the internet or playing a game. I'm 40 now, so it may also be related to the fact I was still in my teens when the internet became a thing, but this ambient mix really seems to reflect the feeling I sometimes had when playing Sim City 2000, Transport Tycoon or Quake, sometimes for hours on end and just forgot about the time and other things in life.
I played all them games and they were all awesome! I'm 38, still having fun! All 3D game development related, but the joy digital art brings is next level. I would say fun is far better now, we have access to what we had before and even more now. It's really about can you be bothered committing to a hobby or not feeling bad playing a video game 2-3hrs.
Keep cool and enjoy the vibe!
and then you realise that it was like this with every topic offline, even cars had colors. And now it just gets worse year to year. More gray, more bland, more work for same living standard.
I'm 40 and I remember. It's the weirdest feeling, at the time I always thought the "Frutiger Aero" aesthetic was kinda loud and gauche, but now I'd just about die to visit an old '90s mall or see something not just getting more and more grimdark for once.
we still have that its called elden ring
@@Arcgateway All about the perspective lens, you want to see black and grey, you'll see it! You want to see colour, you'll see it. Things are only bleak when you want them to be!
"No Midjourney or any other AI’s has been used to make this video happen" - Thank you!
AI is good, embrace it. It's here to stay Humans are obsolete..
that phrase is kindda sad ngl
all I can say is thank God I was alive to witness the 90s... peak of the human experience
in 1995 Brian Eno planted a sonic seed... then after 29 years, people hear it bloom into infinity. This is the essence of humanity.
Exactly, I couldn't have said it better my self 💜 next up, Ken Kato 😁
So Microsoft paid Brian Eno $35,000 for the opening soundbite of Windows 95!!
Brian Eno is considered by many to be the father of ambient music.
Exactly 😊. Idk, but I think he would be proud of your work 😊❤️
Wondered why I like Windows 95's opening sound bite the most...
Brian Eno is the absolute GOAT of ambient music
The fun fact is he created such a tune in an Apple computer 😅
also his name is an anagram for Brain One
My mind just went straight back to my parent's office in the late 90's, as a pre-teen, sitting at that old PC. That memory feels more real, more substantial, and more precious to me than the current moment & place I am in now as I type this in 2024. I feel frozen, with a bittersweet emotion; realizing how incredibly precious that time in my life, and that era, was. I want to just step out of this mental tesseract that I find myself in, standing beside the childhood version of me, unbeknownst to him, and for just one tear-filled moment, just hug my young, former self. I want to tell him how beautiful this moment is, that every doubt he ever had about himself at that tender age is totally ok (don't be so hard on yourself), and just go tell your family, your pets, your friends...just how much you love them. Some of them won't be here much longer...
Then step outside, look into the sky of the world that will sadly never be again, and take a breath so big, that your future self will feel it all those years later.
I imagine all of us, another quarter century from now, will wish we could do the same for the 2024 versions of ourselves we experience now. This life is just one giant, gentle, beautiful & bittersweet mirage...
Incredible the power this music has on the mind, and what that humble little windows environment in the innocent infancy of computing has on all of us: a power so great that it would both build an entire new world, and innocuously, but eventually, eradicate an old one.
Thank you for your creation, Retrovex. This helped me get in touch with a part of me I haven't felt in a long, long time...
Thank YOU for such in depth and personal speech about how this made you feel, I'm honestly honoured that it means so much to you and I hope you're doing ok, life can be tough but it always bounces back for the better, stay relaxed and thank you so much for the donation, wish you a wonderful year!
How the heck were you able to output that with the correct words?
Amazing comment dude. Wow. This is why I read the comments.
@@SproutyPottedPlant If you find articulate prose painting poetic scenery of magical insights and experience to enshrine which inspires emotive response impressive then look to the head of the fount and find the one who has inspired all who follow in his wake with their mere mumblings: Lord Dunsany - In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales
90's kid here. Thanks, I'm crying now.
The invention of computers and the WWW gave many people literally a second chance. Disabled people and introverted people have a new opportunity to explore this world. I hope that after I die, in paradise, I will also have a personal computer. He literally saved me from loneliness.
I was born in December of 1979.
I was an 80s kid and I was a 90s teenager.
If I could choose to do it all over again, I would in a heartbeat.
Thank the LORD, I was lucky to have lived in that era. I wouldn't change it for ANYTHING...
Windows '95 is strongly connected to my childhood. I can't explain it to you, but you if know, you know.
I know ♥️🙏🏻
I know exactly how you feel and I'm so happy to see that I am not the only one who feels this way about Windows 95.
I know too 🙏
The start up sound rocks me to my core. So many memories flood back just hearing that sound.
I know..
Reminds me of being home in the 1990s- when everything was normal. Future generations will never know how good things used to be instead of how advanced they are now.
We are in the future now. The new millennia promised us wonder.
Opression of digital handcuffs.
Humans without humanity.
The chords reverberate in my nevous system.
I feel at peace now. Thank you this work really means alot to me.
I listened to the whole hour and reflected on the 90's. It didn't take long to break down and realize: to remember the 90's is to remember our humanity.
Back when to go on Internet, I needed to take the bus 1h to the big city, and pay access in a cybercafe. I would insert a floppy disc, look for useful pieces of codes, tutorials, download them and copy them to study them at home. Internet was much more about personal webpages than corporate web applications, a worldwide village. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
We were lucky. I never get sad with these things because I always think
"Don't be sad that it's gone, be happy that you got to experience it"
Beautiful and haunting. The soundtrack of a lost futuristic hope and optimism of the 90's.
I couldn't conceive better expression for that.
I was so optimistic about the future as a kid in the 90's. How could it have ended so horribly? 9/11 was the crossing of the rubicon. The 2000's were a mix of old and new. Early 2000's felt like a 90's hangover, late 2000's you started seeing a lot of signs of bad things to come... early 2010's felt like the entrance to the new reality... and then we dropped completely off a cliff into this hellscape in 2015. Beginning to wonder if my derealization is really just a mental health issue or if we really are lost in an alt dimension. (but I have faith in Christ so I don't really believe that)
Exactly!
I felt it absolutely the same way...@@robbratcher4675
@@robbratcher4675 It's demoralisation. Look up Yuri Bezmenov's lectures, you'll be able to start making sense of it from there.
Humanity's in a war, you're just unaware of it.
Amazing, truly the Golden Age of personal computing. Who remembers those awesome discs that you got with PC magazines, packed with cool stuff like music software, or demos for up and coming video games? What a fantastic time it was indeed!
1000% agree, I think about those magazines at least once a month.
Yeah! I loved that magazine. I remember I discovered Twinsen (Little big adventure) there ❤
"They Hunger" - A Half-Life zombie horror mod that had 3 chapters stretched out over 3 discs (1 chapter per month). It was the pinicle gaming magazines and computing!
omg yes! and sometimes in cereal boxes too, like the kids version of the game Doom that you found in the Chex cereal box!
@@ThoughTMusicit was called They Hunger ;) great times indeed
The internet was trully ours, we grew up with it in its infancy. We got to experience the best of it, no generation after us will ever know the joy of a pre 9/11 world.
Remember when Yahoo had chat lobbies? And you could join a lobby and start chatting with people from all over the world? Man! I miss MySpace.
@@nerychristian ya the elite got rid of that because they DO NOT want communication. They want control.
Multiple websites had live chat. Myspace, yahoo, myyearbook.
I grew up just across the Hudson and got to experience the observation deck of the south tower, yeah... 9/11 changed so much. I remember what it was like waving goodbye to a family member at the Gate of the Newark Airport, back then you didn't need a ticket, and there wasn't a TSA making you take off your shoes.
Yes it was the golden age - things felt quieter and that world was your niche.
A nostalgic past representing the future that never was. How melancholic.
That's a great way to put it. That computer floating out at sea, it's like a castaway, lost.
What ever happened to that techno-optimistic future we were all promised?
Was it all just marketing to convince us to sell our future to the tech giants so they could profit off our wonder and excitement?
Did it have to turn out this way? Was building tools to tie our brains to screens for ad revenue really necessary?
Having been born in 1987, this track brings back so many memories of when I was young, when we bought our first computer, the first time i heard the carrier chirp to log on to the internet...so much has changed since then. My kids will never know a world where you couldn't access the internet anywhere and everywhere you go. My generation was truly the last generation to grow up without tech being a necessary object for daily life.
я родился в 1985 году в СССР, первый компьютер у меня появился только в 2002 году на 98 винде. Да, у каждой нации свои ассоциации с компьютерами и детством
первой была была китайская пиратская копия NES, которую в Росии/Украине называли Dendy, это был 1995 год, потом появилась Sega 16 бит, это был уже 1998-1999 , компьютеры были только у детей богатых родителей.
Also an 87 baby. Also remember the times as halcyon days. AoL was part of that journey for me too. It was definitely different times. I don’t long to relive my childhood but I do miss how simpler things were back then.
My exact thoughts
Nope some of us born after you grew up without computers and internet usage and just enjoyed a normal childhood running around outside and having fun.
I should not have listened to this at work. The wave of nostalgia overcoming me is almost making me tear up.
It's ok to cry 💜it just means it was a good memory/time
I feel you, bro.
It is soooo gawddd@mn trruuuuuuuuueeeee
I'm past that. I'm typing this with tears running down my face.
It's like waking up from a 29-year-long nightmare!
You ain't kiddin
True.
the reason why this nostalgic feels good is bc its from a time when the internet was peaceful and good. It was wonderful to explore all the hidden nooks and crannies. Compared to now when everyone has emotional and mental sickness bc of what todays internet has done, designed to get people enraged to promote engagement.
"Y'know, it wasn't always like this..."
This brings back memories. Being at college, inside a computer lab, browing websites designed by ordinary people. Chatting with people on Yahoo. Working on documents and saving them on Zip drives.
@@nerychristian yea. back then you felt good wherever you were, because the internet wasn't designed to make you feel FOMO. so sitting in a lab by yourself felt peaceful. but now, 90 percent of the internet is social network crap designed to hijack your attention and make you feel bad to be in the present moment
Can you imagine? Strangers used to gather in chat rooms because it made them happy to talk to others, to share their interests, to roleplay fantasy, to build friendships and create bonds. Chat rooms and forums used to have rules against "flaming" and "flame wars" because arguing and being insulting were the exception not the rule. How sad it is that online discourse is now driven primarily by rage and disagreement. And worse, that people at large just accept this.
@@mithcee i miss it so much
Brings me back to 1995/96. I was 10 years ago. My uncle had just bought a Pentium 66mhz PC with a 3D acceleratior card. He let me play Tomb Raider for the very first time, showed me this new thing called the Internet... Kids today with their iPads will never experience nostalgia like us 90s kids! Long live the future!!!😢
Hey don’t diss the iPad 😅 it has apps that lets you make music like this ❤
Gen-Z will never know what they missed. Thank God I had my childhood in the optimistic, colorful, ethereal, mystical 90s.
Same, I couldn't even begin to imagine what it's like growing up in an age where everyone has a camera ready to put you on blast to the entire world in seconds sitting in their pocket. All the crazy and dumb stuff I did as a kid that was fun would never fly now. How do they not feel like prisoners constantly being watched?
@@shadow7988 They do. That's partly why they are so miserable. The government and corporate megalomaniacs want to sow the seeds of resentment by pitting groups against others. Laying the blame on people that never did anyone any harm. "White people are the problem. Men and boys are products of toxic masculinity" Blah blah blah. Its the mark of a miserable and lying society and it needs to stop. Only we can control how we react to it and fortunately more and more young kids are getting tired of living that way. Hopefully enough people will force a change in the future and we can get back to being free citizens again
@@shadow7988 I was born in 2005, Almost every day I have nostalgia for the 90s and the early 2000s, I didn't live in the 90s but I wish I did. Almost everyone believes Gen Z has an addiction to smartphones when people born in the 2000s, 2001-2004 for example were before the iPhone or even Android phones came out
@@GoldenRing2023 The only thing I really believe about gen Z is that most of them don't know a time without phones and the internet, or time truly away from parents/guardians. That's really it. I was born two decades before you in 85. The 90s were my childhood, and I vaguely remember the tail end of the 80s. When I was a kid, the 'phone' was something physical in my house and I rarely used it. It was a thing my mum used mostly. The "internet" wasn't as it is today, and none of my friend group's parents had it. I spent a lot of my childhood outside disconnected from my parents for most of the day. There was no expectation to text them telling them where I was, or saying I was safe, as I had no tech to do so! I just had to be in by dinner time, and that was the only condition. Sometimes if we were building a den somewhere into the night, or if we were going to camp out (I lived in a remote, rural area as a kid), a messenger would be sent to inform whichever set of parents was closest to our location that we would all be out later. Usually the fittest kid who could run the longest! It was as if we as kids had our own little civilisation and society away from the adults. We built our own places to play around and congregate at. If one of us got slightly injured, or tore up our clothes out on adventures, a discussion was had about how to hide it from the parents so that they wouldn't try to curtail our freedom. The World was wide and full of wonder! We knew which adults to stay away from. We knew which activities were dangerous. We took care of each other. That's what is different now I feel, as parents seem to keep MUCH closer tabs on their kids now. Kids don't have the freedom that I had. Being older, I see what the internet and smartphones have done to my life, and those of my age group. It's not all positive, that's for sure. People are much more paranoid these days when it comes to what their children are doing and where they are. That's good in some ways, but bad in many others. The kids don't really get to live their own separate life. Our parents didn't know what we were doing, or where we were, and they were fine with that. It was a more innocent time. That's what is different in my mind. Those times ended sometime in the 00s when most people my age (and older, and younger) got consumed by connectivity, and starting getting phones, and phones for their kids.
As an '05 Gen-Z that practically surrounded myself with the early themes and had a huge attachment for the computer technology and software of the 90's and early 00's. I know exactly what my generation missed.
Listening to things like this, pulling my old 95 and 98 machines out of the closet for some old games every now and then, and even building the machines based on hardware I find at the dump. I get ripely emotional any time I stop to think about what we're missing nowadays.
It feels like everything quickly evaporated and became soulless. And in my situation, I have almost nobody of similar age that understands or feels the same as I do. It's almost painful rather than nostalgic.
Just as easily as I can seemingly put the lost future back together from what I find at the dump, I can toss it back and let it get buried to return to the Earth.
Stunning serenity, a whisper from the past...
with plenty more to come 💜
I remember the late 90's as being a special and formative time. So many great movies and video games in that era. But you still watched and played them with your friends right next to you.
The ability to take sounds from a Windows 95 system and to turn into art such as this... Within the first thirty seconds somehow I was hit with a wave of nostalgia and felt tears come to my eyes. Thank you for sharing your talents!
That's really nice of you to say , thank you so much! 💜I hope to bring many soundscapes for everyone to listen :)
**sobbing uncontrollably while clinging to my palm tree raft in the ocean** "WINDOWS!!!!!! WIIIIIIIINDOWS, I"M SORRY WINDOWS!!!!!"
LMAO 😂
iI understood that reference!
Glad to see others who understand what this means in the comments..was really the golden age...this era now is a shadow age..of teachnology ruling us..our lives in its cage.
- child of the 90s..forever nostalgic and grateful.
This music really hits hard, after just a few seconds I knew that I had found a true gem.
dziekuje serdecznie! pozdrawiam 💜
@@RetrovexAmbient 💪
The water, sun and sky....I could float away here forever.
"Nothing works right since Windows 95" - Duckman
Win95 win98 Windows XP are the peak of golden era. Since Windows vista it's where hell started.
@@user-nu5du2ux3z we never would've expected Windows XP was going to be the last glimpse of hope there'd be.
windows 7 was good
@@energeticyellow1637 jepp. i still use it almost every day besides 10 and 11. it is good for some specific purposes
Say a prayer for the early 80s babies. Our teenage years were incredible. 😓
I am actually quite emotional about this. Makes me feel old hearing the old sounds of my childhood playing games and working on my homework.
Yeah this is almost like caretaker but for millennials
are you old now ?
It's seems you entered in some kind of portal and traveled to the past, but everything there disappeared, its only you and this computer in a totally empty dimension.
Remember that first time you met the internet? I was lucky enough to be a teen when the golden age of internet and computers was taking place. Everything was so new and exciting. Now even tho it has so much more options and possibilities, I feel like its soul as it was is long gone. Everything is monitored and spied on. You never feel like you got your own world anymore. It was the closest we got to some kind of anarchy in terms of freedom of speech and free to roam wherever we'd like. It wasn't so measured. I will never forget those good old days discovering this fantastic world.
And the only measurement/tracking there really was, was the visitor counter at the bottom of the webpages you visited.
The opening sound reminds me of when I'd go over to my friend's house to play Sim City 2000 and the original Need for Speed. Ah man life was as blissful as this video.
This is how you transcend content to become art
Please give us PS1/PS2 ambience, the people crave.
Two hundred THOUSAND views... Thats absolutely astronomical, im flabbergasted
Just goes to show, the demand is huge
I've listened to this at least once every day while at work. That opening sound never gets old. Please make more!
Well deserved, you've captured the spirit of an entire generation with this I think.
you deserve it man, this is wayy better than I was expecting
welp, you'll guys have a new episode to listen to next week 💜 and then after that we got an april fools episode :P
Was born at the very END of 1999 but at least I was able to still experience these last pieces of it. Parents gave me their old computer for me to play jump-start learning games and such, ran on Windows 95.
I also remember back in 2007 my school gave away their old computers, I was one of the lucky kids to get one from them. Those ran on Windows Professional which I never knew was a thing.
Damn I was born in 95 and I don't even remember that. I grew up with windows millenium/2000
2007 you were 7/8 years old, computers are a pretty advanced concept for a kid that age I didn't even know how to work a smartphone till I was 20
@@Chico9569windows Milllenium was probably the worst windows ever! oh my ..
@@Chico9569 Kids are wicked good learners if you allow them to be. I was not only using computers, but even assembling them, when I was like 8 because we had them in the home way earlier than most for work reasons. It's harder for people to learn now because everything is so easy and convenient, no one is pushed to think anymore.
@@Scynime I think you mean Windows 2000 Professional (Win 95 and 98 didn't have Pro versions).
I've had this on loop for hours. Perfect soundscape for reading scifi and making levels in Doom Builder.
Im super glad to hear that! Brings me joy that you like it so much thank you💜
absolutely, this brings back childhood memories of my first PC with Windows 98, playing games like minesweeper while listening to hours of music @@RetrovexAmbient
Doom Builder and.....Edmap, why not?
Instantly I am reminded by those Windows 95 "with Plus!" themes.
I remember the "Inside Your Computer" theme, with the glass bauble screensaver slowly moving around.
And the 256 colour "Nature" theme with the cougar.
you just gave me a great idea for an episode 😳
This is ambient perfection for me! This may sound a bit weird to some but I always found the aesthetics of Windows 95 & 98 to be peaceful, nostalgic, soul healing, meditating, and aesthetically pleasing from their startup sounds, sound effects, colorful wallpapers, themes, the small but colorful games, and even the sampler discs that had alot of personality put into em seeing as the internet wasn't so obtainable at the time.
Sometimes I am here mentally.
3rd night in a row now that I have returned here. This has soothed my soul, not only is it an ambient mix of relaxation but pulls out the comforting notes of windows 95, the days gone by and an era close to my heart, 1995 and the startup sound which, in my mind, came to symbolise the wonderful decade of the 1990s ♥️
Welcome back fellow 86'r. Much love on your journey!
This really means a lot to me, I've never experienced this much feedback regarding my works and honestly I can't wait to show you more of what i have in store for the future💜
@@ImperfectCitizen and to you too, fellow 86’r!
@@RetrovexAmbientwe can’t wait to hear and see more of you wonderful work ♥️
The 90's. The last decent decade.
No social media. Just me and Sonic and Knuckles...
Its like someone rolled back time, and kept me in a happy nostalgia for 1 hour.
Fantastic video!
Please consider doing similar videos on these retro sounds:
1. Windows 98
2. Playstation 1 or 2
Always happy to take recommendations! And im definitely doing more windows stuff , cant wait to show you all what i got cooking up 💜
yaaas PS2 intro sound plz@@RetrovexAmbient
Dreamcast?
Yes, PS1 startup music, and Spyro games music 💜 That would be wonderful.
I run Linux and the win95 sound is my startup sound. It's one of the best ones ever.
I didnt get the chance to experience the times of win98, win95, winXP. But from what I can tell from these comments, it truly was the golden age of computing. God bless those are experienced it. I only wish I can experience something similar.
When i hear this sound, i imagine myself on a white sandy beach. On a sunny day with dark blue skies. The sun almost appearing fully white.
With the sounds of calm ocean waves hitting the shore. I feel at calm of the tranquility of this scene. As i stand in the ocean, i look back to the shore and seeing my family smiling back at me. Appearing proud of my accomplishments.
I realize, with this song playing, this is the definition of heaven. ❤️
We are longing for those golden times but today might be the same golden period, another one, before something else comes as social media and other things did.
You might imagine that you have come back from the future and this very moment is the "past" and you are living in your memories one more time. Complicated but interesting :)
Ah the human condition. Honestly if there were a matrix I could jump into and just live in the 90s and 2000s for eternity, I would.
I've been going through a lot recently and this took me back to a simpler time in life. Remembering things I have forgotten. It's been 10 minutes and I'm sitting here with my headphones on staring off into the distance. I feel like these are spiritual sounds of emotion, we've always resonated with them, humans have just perfected their presence... From ancient tribes, to biblical stories, we're captivated by harmonious frequencies.
I'm 38 minutes in. Thank you. Some people don't always need Church, or a trip, they just need peace.
I've made it guys
Even now, when I turn on one of those old machines it brings me back a sense of wonder and happiness, almost like something magic is about to happen. A new world in front of me and endless new things to discover.
The feelings this brings up in me are incomprehensibly strong. Got tears in my eyes.
I find it strange young people are so nostalgic for this era of computing. I was in my teens when 95 launched and it made using a computer feel less lonely. Now there was something to look at and listen to, instead of that black void with a prompt. However it didn't change the fact that it was still a lonely experience. There were no MP3's, no USB drives and internet was too expensive. If you wanted to share something you would have to call a friend and meetup.
Basically the computer was left alone for most of the day and the interaction you had was exploring the software or games you owned.
That's precisely why they're nostalgic. It was a form of entertainment and discovery, without any attempt at taking over every aspect of life. It was a source of curiosity and creativity, largely untouched by corporate greed or algorithms. People could log on for 20 minutes a day and be satisfied, didn't feel tied to it or drawn in to the point of addiction. They were able to enjoy life outside the computer with their friends, who were doing the same, untethered. They didn't have to wait for a friend to look up from a screen to gain their attention; they were already present in the moment with them. The computer was a fun and exciting device during that time, not the exhausting source of negativity and obsession it is today.
I don't think it's enough to say that this vid merely conveys nostalgia of a time long gone. It also conveys the notion of a future whose promise was unfulfilled. Not simply because of what world events have transpired since 2000, but how technology has changed our world for better and worse. I supposed it was naïve to believe that technology would only positively benefit humanity, not highlight and augment the best and worst of humanity. Well done!
The way this transports me back to my childhood. Wish I could have those days forever
My first immersion into tech was win95 now after the better part of a career in tech this is like seeing the porch light in the distance
1982 checking in!
The sounds of my youth...
It's late and I found this video to calm down. ❤ It's truly emotionally in the comments. 😢🙏 It's good to see that I'm not alone with the feeling that the internet has a lot more soul back in the 90s. I was born in 1989 and windows 95 was my start into the future. ❤ I miss the old internet, it was more comfortable and.. Well, smaller actually. I love to see the world connected, but in some way it went wrong. Our generation should be thankful and aware of what we had, what for a privilege to had a childhood without smartphones, just computers ❤ thank you
This music distinctly remind me of how as a 90s girl, loading up my Windows 95 setup and seeing a graphic bootup visual of Poseidon's Odyssey play before my eyes and how that made me cry because I thought it was the most magical thing on earth....back when the internet was truly a magical place for discovery, and not the dumpster heap it is today.
Listening to this and reminiscing about the 90s makes me feel like that decade was probably the apex of the human race
At first I resisted... now I listen every time I wake up
I'm going to school for cybersecurity and I was born in 1986. Oh how I yearn for a simpler time.. Computers are getting so high-tech and fancy that it hurts my brain sometimes trying to learn and understand these concepts. I miss my Windows 95 and my Duke Nukem 3D. Back when we ran ipv4 and one firewall and nobody was concerned about hackers. Now we run IPv6 and 25 firewalls in every freaking location, server, client, host device, IoTs, cloud, etc. If it has access to the internet we're slapping a firewall on it because redundancy and hackers!! 😂
I never thought I would miss the days when I would play Starcraft over dial-up internet and hope nobody tried to call the house for 5 hours. 😅
Wow, this creates a temptation to reinstall Windows 95. 🪟I always loved these sounds from the golden age of computers. Thank you for creating this. 🙏
The good thing: No one can take away your memory, you once made, by experiancing this yourself😊 Listening to this, i feel this is calming down way more than any other audio stuff. And the fact that you instantly feel relaxed just by hearing these sounds kind of proves how relaxed the time was back then.
Time takes it all away eventually.
First (and surprisingly fast) through preferential distortion via the Mandela effect, then by age and fading mental faculties.
Please make an 8-10 hour version of this. I’m begging you. This would be one of the best sleep tracks I’ve ever heard.
woah. this is a lot more cooler than i thought it would be. RIP Windows 95.
This is amazing and takes me back to a time when I was still young.
I'm so glad it does! 💜
are you very old now ?
@marcins6071 yes I'm in my 40s
@@darthhatchet me too
Man, I miss computing and the internet in the 90's / early 2000's. It just felt like the world was open to us and anything was possible. These days the internet feels like a sterilized hospital room - quite safe to browse and explore, but also not very interesting or memorable.
This track legitimately brings such deep calm to my soul. It's unexplainable in words but I think anyone who grew up around the same time as me knows exactly what I'm talking about.
No complaining at all about how relaxing this is, like existing in a chamber of voxels. Beautiful work.
What's wild is that I still vividly remember a time before RUclips... people often mention social media sites like Facebook, but RUclips has had an even bigger impact on everything imo.
This reminds me of friends and close family members whom have become distant memories. Great times were had where exploration and curiosity with a sense for outdoor adventure was a driving force. This is truly an amazing and original piece. Well done.
Hearing that familiar boot up sound gave me chills and took me back to when I played 3D Dinosaur Adventure on Windows 95 at 8 years old.
Thank you for making this. Gonna meditate to it and imagine myself back in better times.
Gonna age myself by saying this; but I remember the first time I used Win 95 when it was a current OS. The difference from Windows 3.11 was mind blowing.
Great piece of work to get a really good ambient track while making so many sounds and tones recognisable.
Ill age myself too haha, I grew up with Windows XP and moving to windows 7 was definitely something my young mind was still comprehending, but never had a chance to use 95, i tried to stay true to its original sound, its a really soothing startup.💜
Oh yeah, the leap from 3.1 to win95 was insane. It felt like the future and guess what? It was, because windows today still has that same fundamental feel that was introduced in 95.
I remember having to upgrade from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95 because I wanted to play Discworld and it needed Win 95. My dad brought home an installation CD from his office and we did the upgrade - it was so exciting! Our computer at the time only just met the minimum specs for installation. I was blown away at how clean and modern it looked, plus that startup sound was like a warm "welcome to the future of technology" every time. I don't think I've ever felt the same way about installing a new OS since then. Wonderfully precious memories that I will cherish forever.
@@FakefulandDisgracedSlaveClass Yes. In retrospect, Windows 95 made history. We were living in the actual future the first time we started our computers with that OS.
This is amazing. Deserves to be pressed onto vinyl, honestly.
When Windows 95 was released, I didn't have a PC because it was way beyond my means. And I didn't use it either. I got to know and use a PC about 12 years ago, and I started with w7. I can't put into words what I feel when I hear and listen to this masterpiece, I just get emotional and feel good and wonderful sensations and feelings.
Thank you for this trip to times where there was no mortgage, troubles or worries of the future. Just forever continuing evenings with friends and high hopes. This song dont make me sad, instead I am peacefull and forever greatfull that I have lived those times.
The Win95 startup will always hit me HARD with nostalgia. What an iconic sound. No wonder, as it was composed as a 5 second song by nobody else than Brian Eno himself.
This is a fantastic version. Love everything about this!
So new yet nostalgic, so haunting yet familiar, so mysterious and yet home. Brilliant work! An introvert story of new age music from last 30 years.
Right in the feels! For even better results, complement using headphones with closing your eyes. It's an ethereal time travelling flight.
Oh my goodness yess!! I first heard this on my Bose headphones. I could feel my soul vibrate! Its the best way to hear these!
AMAZING for meditation, contemplation, etc..................................!
First computer I used was a Tandy 1000 in the mid 80’s.
I was 21 in 1995. The 90’s were a great decade…not as good as my 80’s, but right there. You 90’s kids were the last generation to not be completely consumed by electronics and the internet…you still went outside to play.
So good! You found just the right mix of sounds being recognizable but still sounds like an awesome ambient piece :)
man this is some of the most beautiful soundscapes i've listened to in all my life, magnificent work mate
why is this so emotional for me
As soon as I saw the title of the video, I was like, 'Oh yes, I'm gonna love this,' but this was perhaps even better than expected; really nicely and seamlessly put together.
Also, there's just something about classic Windows sounds and ambience that's on another level of both bliss and nostalgia.
We all miss it, the past...I miss being a kid. I was in 2-4th grade when Windows 95 was out, it was like this forbidden technology...so strange, so interesting you know.
Meditative, soothing, nostalgic... Incredible.
Wonderful sound. Today with a smartphone, paper box 3d glasses, and bt headphones, for a small amount of money everyone can get to another worlds and dimensions.
You've just been outside playing with radio controlled cars with your friend. The smell of high revving motors clings to the air. The batteries died, they are warm to the touch so you put them in the chest freezer of the garage to cool down before charging them again. Meanwhile you go inside and his Mum offers you orange juice and biscuits. "Let's turn the computer on" your friend says. You both sit down next to the keyboard and watch as the Pentium P90 boots up. "Oh you've got PGA Tour Golf let's play it!" you say excitedly. "So you want to be Nick Faldo?" his dad jokes from across the kitchen. You watch as the screen transitions to a field of green. The sensation of being transported to the golf course is powerful, evoking a feeling of foreign ambience and wunderlust. But you are still present, with your friend, drinking orange juice...
So calming, definitely puts you back in that time, another amazing soundscape Retrovex!
💜🙏 thank you sincerely!!