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  • @CreamedCheesed
    @CreamedCheesed 2 года назад +194

    4:01 I remember in the 1990s surfing the information superhighway really was an event. You’d get dressed up turn off the lights put on some Kraftwerk…. and spin around. Now people just slobber over their phones and tablets all day and night without as much as a 180. Where’s the magic? Where’s the suspenders? Where’s the German techno? Where’s the dizziness induced vomiting?

    • @anonUK
      @anonUK 2 года назад +23

      I 'm old school- I can't use the Internet on my PC unless I'm bathed in magenta light, sitting at my computer on a rotating platform cut into the middle of the floor of an empty room, using a DOS-based Internet browser designed by someone at BBC Newsnight. The experimental-era techno, though? I can take it or leave it.

    • @usernameonutube
      @usernameonutube 2 года назад +14

      Ahh the days of only catching a glimpse of your blurry monitor per rotation

    • @johnj3577
      @johnj3577 2 года назад +7

      Personally, I miss the screeching 14.4k modem being part of the experience.

    • @spider-ham7140
      @spider-ham7140 2 года назад +2

      Lol sounds like you had quiet the experience back in the day

    • @Spayyce
      @Spayyce 2 года назад

      reddit

  • @BenjyDale
    @BenjyDale 2 года назад +57

    Microsoft started to get big with Windows 3.1 (1991-ish?) but yeah Windows 1995 was a flagship in that Windows have looked similar layout-wise for the next couple of decades. Even Windows 10 / 11 is still visually similar, just the start menu placement is different

    • @jessepatterson8897
      @jessepatterson8897 Год назад +2

      @@josehenriq90 lmao kid, they couldn’t even play video frames without dropping them without stealing QuickTime tech from apple. You have no idea

    • @hjf3022
      @hjf3022 Год назад +3

      @@jessepatterson8897 but what is The relevance to the content you are responding to?

    • @godzilla928
      @godzilla928 Год назад +3

      @@jessepatterson8897 stole? developing =/= stealing
      if i develop something that someone else did before me does not mean i stole it from him xd
      also defending Jobs saying that someone stole something from him is a little bit hypocritical considering how much money he basically stole from people with the prices of 'his products'... oh and what about stolen lifes and work camps? You forgot to mention about his cool work facilities where hundreds of thousands of people work 12-18h a day for a dogshit salary where in some of such places they even have to live there which basically makes them become a slaves. What about suicides which practically became part of the facilitie's normal daily rutine and everyone already used to them? Who cares, rotation is so big that there will always be someone to fill the empty 'space'.
      Jobs was brillian, yes... but he cared more about the money than about lifes of the people he hired and that made him just cruel so saying 'ohohohoh poor Steavie got robbed' sounds just pathetically ridiculous

    • @digitalmediafan
      @digitalmediafan 3 месяца назад

      Nonsense and certainly not graphically or technically

  • @38kob
    @38kob 2 месяца назад +1

    9:33 so wonderfully ‘90s. people were just chilling outside being thoughtful back then

  • @ericclaptonsrobotpilot7276
    @ericclaptonsrobotpilot7276 2 года назад +38

    2:50 might be the coolest news package ever filmed.

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival Год назад +7

      It's very similar to the style used in the 1995 movie Hackers.

    • @cygil1
      @cygil1 7 месяцев назад +1

      I'M USING A COMPUTER!!!!!! LIKE IN TRON!!!!

    • @digitalmediafan
      @digitalmediafan 3 месяца назад

      It's no big deal just clever lighting and camera angles very basic compared to now

  • @MaxFleye
    @MaxFleye 2 года назад +58

    Start Me Up was a good pick, Windows 95 did make plenty of grown men cry.

    • @johnj3577
      @johnj3577 2 года назад +11

      I'm still not over all the illegal operations I performed back then. Feel so guilty.

  • @b3ans4eva
    @b3ans4eva 2 года назад +225

    Legend says Microsoft asked the Rolling Stones how much to license Start Me Up. They said $10 million as a joke. Microsoft paid it.

    • @TheUtuber999
      @TheUtuber999 2 года назад +23

      One of the lines in that song is, "You make a grown man cry."

    • @amit4Bihar
      @amit4Bihar 2 года назад +4

      They were promoting Information Superhighway, an alternative to internet but owned by big corporations. If that had succeeded, there would be no Google Facebook Uber Twitter torrents VPN RUclips and so on

    • @amit4Bihar
      @amit4Bihar 2 года назад +3

      If information Superhighway had become successful, the progress of everything would have shifted by many decades

    • @jessepatterson8897
      @jessepatterson8897 Год назад +2

      this was their second choice, i don't remember the first choice but they refused under any circumstances. They were hated, and should have been. At the time they still had quicktime code in windows.

    • @thedopplereffect00
      @thedopplereffect00 Год назад +5

      @@amit4Bihar and yet here at are with most of the internet centralized to a handful of big tech companies. Not distributed as it was originally intended.

  • @H76Pro
    @H76Pro 2 года назад +62

    Those celebrity impersonators were spot on! I thought that was actually Princess Diana and Jack Nickelson!

    • @godzilla928
      @godzilla928 Год назад +8

      Jick Nickelson and Princess Diona*

    • @arvindhmani06
      @arvindhmani06 6 месяцев назад +1

      They need to stop nickel and diming everything!

  • @kristianTV1974
    @kristianTV1974 7 месяцев назад +5

    I was working for an independent computer retailer at the time Win95 went on sale. The sudden popularity of people buying an OS in such high quantities was one of the most memorable recollections I have of the decade I spent working in it (87 to 97).

  • @Animal_lives_matter
    @Animal_lives_matter 2 года назад +41

    Look how sane and dignified people were back then

    • @sarahnadeofpoetry
      @sarahnadeofpoetry Год назад +6

      I wonder about that. The mention of the Ferryman as an example of monopolisation and the use of 'demon du jour', plus the way people took time to pause and think about what they were about to say, is all kinds of stunning to me. I don't feel like you get that level of thoughtfulness in today's news segments :\

    • @italianjesus99
      @italianjesus99 7 месяцев назад

      No grotty tracksuits or kids screaming

    • @user-ve3gh5xg9q
      @user-ve3gh5xg9q 7 месяцев назад

      XX century

    • @benadamsondxb
      @benadamsondxb 3 месяца назад +2

      Have you seen Steve Ballmer's Windows videos? 😆

    • @vanleeuwenhoek
      @vanleeuwenhoek Месяц назад

      The devices we're discussing used the 'surplus computing power' to goatse our attention s p a n.

  • @daithiocinnsealach1982
    @daithiocinnsealach1982 2 года назад +23

    These days a new version of windows hardly even gets a mention on mainstream news it's become so ubiquitous.

    • @Kleineganz
      @Kleineganz Год назад

      Yup, exactly. They have market saturation, so they don't need to spend the big bucks marketing it anymore.

    • @bchristian85
      @bchristian85 Год назад +2

      These days, most people don't want new Windows features. They just want good enough left alone, something MS has had trouble doing since XP. In the Windows 95 days on the other hand, it really upgraded the capability of your computer compared to Windows 3.1.

    • @TurboMintyFresh
      @TurboMintyFresh 8 месяцев назад

      There hasnt been a huge jump in quality like since then so why would they bother

  • @danielm5838
    @danielm5838 Год назад +17

    This was our first family computer. It was a family occasion to turn it on. It later got handed down to me. It had quite a nice aesthetic to it, and it really felt like you were using a tool, as opposed to PCs and laptops now.

    • @OctavioGaitan
      @OctavioGaitan 11 месяцев назад +1

      Because back then, computers weren't filled with the junk, microtransactions, paid features, and loot boxes that modern computers have today.

    • @jonathannixon8652
      @jonathannixon8652 10 месяцев назад

      🎉😂 We did the same. We got home internet as soon as it became available. No one we knew had it yet and people would come over to marvel over it.

    • @jonathannixon8652
      @jonathannixon8652 10 месяцев назад

      I had the first Apple desktop computer as soon as it became available for market. Huge loud computer the fans were loud but it worked amazing for a first time computer to the masses.

  • @Chairman-Mao
    @Chairman-Mao Год назад +14

    This is competent journalism.

  • @TinLeadHammer
    @TinLeadHammer 2 года назад +25

    "Windows 95 is only an operating system, and it is not where the future lies" - Right, computer is not the thing, it is a thing that gets us to the thing.

    • @daithiocinnsealach1982
      @daithiocinnsealach1982 2 года назад +1

      What is the thing it gets us to?

    • @vrclckd-zz3pv
      @vrclckd-zz3pv Год назад +2

      @@daithiocinnsealach1982 I'm pretty sure it's a quote stolen from a TV show called "Halt and Catch Fire", unless the show stole the quote from someone real. It is an extremely underrated drama loosely based on true events from the early computing industry.
      Edit: The actual quote is "Computers aren’t the thing. They’re the thing that gets us to the thing" and it does seem to originate from HaCF. Seriously go watch it. It's my favourite TV show. Kinda like Madmen but better imo.

  • @Miwna
    @Miwna 2 года назад +39

    That company, Intuit, is still going. And it's become just like Microsoft, a big company buying up the competition, lobbying, defrauding and so on.

    • @lordvader3697
      @lordvader3697 2 года назад +1

      Google?

    • @hjf3022
      @hjf3022 Год назад +1

      @@lordvader3697 ...was not around in 1995

  • @richardsequeirateixeira
    @richardsequeirateixeira 6 месяцев назад +3

    It's worth noting that PCs after the launch of Windows 95 are different from the PC of 1994 and before. After Windows 95, you had PCs supporting optical media, plug-and-play, USB, and modern networking.

  • @djpray2k
    @djpray2k 9 месяцев назад +1

    Windows 95 is what got my Dad to buy a PC.m, even though we don't get internet until years later. Both felt like a huge event for a kid who was 14 at the time.

  • @Nightweaver1
    @Nightweaver1 Год назад +7

    We were so incredibly innocent back then, and so incredibly naiive about what the future would really hold for the computer and internet industry.

    • @TurboMintyFresh
      @TurboMintyFresh 8 месяцев назад

      We wouldnt be able to handle the truth back then if we could see what has happened to the world because of the internet

    • @alexanderharris8310
      @alexanderharris8310 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@TurboMintyFreshcall me stupid but what do you mean?

    • @alexanderharris8310
      @alexanderharris8310 7 месяцев назад

      Sorry, what do you mean?

  • @TH33QUALIZ3R
    @TH33QUALIZ3R 2 года назад +52

    Win 95 was the start of Microsoft becoming aggressive & greedy. After the MSN thing came the Internet Explorer suits which only ended relatively recently by giving users the choice of their default browsers. But they still try crafty little tricks to take other choices away. And their contempt for the consumer can be measured in the quality of it's products and customer services in 2022.

    • @pkaulf
      @pkaulf 2 года назад +1

      MS were a predatory company from the very beginning. They screwed over Digital Research and CP/M when making the MS-DOS deal with IBM, amongst many other things.

    • @jondonnelly3
      @jondonnelly3 2 года назад +3

      Windows 10 is quite good. 11 needs work yet.

    • @HalfdeadRider
      @HalfdeadRider 2 года назад +1

      @@jondonnelly3 I've been using 11 for a while now, I find nothing wrong with it. Also a couple of large updates in recent months have definitely improved it in many ways.

    • @davepegington9066
      @davepegington9066 2 года назад +6

      Get Linux

    • @drifter402
      @drifter402 2 года назад +4

      Nah they were doing some nasty stuff even during windows 3

  • @maolcogi
    @maolcogi 2 года назад +7

    At 4:27 anyone else hear a random Owen Wilson "Wow!"?

  • @ryancull515
    @ryancull515 6 месяцев назад +7

    Back in the 90s companies encouraged laid back attitudes and creativity that created some of the most memorable innovations. Now in 2024 it's all corporate suits , AI and profits.

  • @rich_rich90
    @rich_rich90 Год назад +53

    1990s Microsoft: Are they becoming too big?
    2020s Google: Hold my keyboard...

    • @medes5597
      @medes5597 Год назад +3

      I wish 2020s Google would do something as epoch defining and brilliant as windows 95.
      Don't get me wrong, you're right. But windows 95s launch was such a unique moment in computing history

    • @bchristian85
      @bchristian85 Год назад

      I'd say Google Earth/Maps and Android is their Windows 95. Those two products changed our world more than people realize. Before Google Maps, you would use the yellow pages to find what you wanted and then use Mapquest, or if you went back far enough, pull out a road map of your city.@@medes5597

    • @maximusg88
      @maximusg88 10 месяцев назад +4

      Apple - hold my ecosystem

    • @HemantKumar-id3jg
      @HemantKumar-id3jg 10 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@maximusg88That company being that overvalued is just stupid.

  • @ChrisRowe
    @ChrisRowe Год назад +4

    Nice use of "I miss you" by Björk at 2:51

  • @TheUtuber999
    @TheUtuber999 2 года назад +9

    They should have made the default background dark blue, given the amount of BSODs in that release.

  • @MrMann0123
    @MrMann0123 3 месяца назад +1

    What gets me is that this is 30 years ago and it is tricky to tell that bar the big CRT screens, go 30 years the other way and youd know it was a different ago

    • @thisaintart
      @thisaintart 20 дней назад

      Da fuq u trying to type? Edit that ish 😂

  • @toddchamberlain6507
    @toddchamberlain6507 2 года назад +14

    About Windows 95 - yet they use an Amiga 2000 at 2:49 and 3:56 to do the news story. :)

  • @NormalCleanCars
    @NormalCleanCars 2 года назад +5

    Windows 95, my first operating system I used in 2001 when I was 6 playing Stronghold crusader Kings

  • @nigeljames6017
    @nigeljames6017 2 года назад +5

    Hmmm, forced to used 95 until the revelation of XP and then I was sold.

    • @zaftra
      @zaftra 8 месяцев назад +1

      I had windows 95 on mine form 97 when i got a pc to 2006 when I literally couldn't use it any more.

  • @windowsnt63official
    @windowsnt63official 8 месяцев назад +3

    Windows 95 had its issues at launch, but OSR1 fixed a lot of these issues. It was succeeded by Windows 98 which was succeeded by the dumpster fire of Windows ME.

    • @stephthestar90
      @stephthestar90 6 месяцев назад +4

      Windows 98/SE was the best of the Windows 9x era, it was relatively stable and was the first version to be properly internet and USB ready. I used it until 2003 when my dad finally upgraded us to XP.

  • @zaftra
    @zaftra Год назад +2

    When they kept shutting the computer labs down at uni to install windows 3.1 and 95, I did nothing but moan about it, little realising what historical times I was living through

  • @FrontierNG
    @FrontierNG 2 года назад +11

    Amiga 2000 on 04:00 spotted :)

    • @rc55uk
      @rc55uk 2 года назад +1

      Now there's a man who's keeping up with the Commmodore!

  • @Fordprefect1000
    @Fordprefect1000 2 года назад +5

    the PS/2 in the thumbnail would have run OS/2 which was far superior to 95 at the time

    • @rc55uk
      @rc55uk 2 года назад +10

      OS/2 users: "There are dozens of us! DOZENS!!!"

    • @Longlius
      @Longlius 9 месяцев назад

      Most PS/2s ended up running DOS and Windows because IBM made the completely nonsensical decision to not bundle their OS with the PS/2 line.

  • @MultiVince95
    @MultiVince95 3 месяца назад +1

    Thursday 24th August 1995

  • @Max-kw2hp
    @Max-kw2hp Год назад +2

    Can we have a video where Bill says "I am the danger!"?

  • @ShaunakHub
    @ShaunakHub 2 года назад +6

    Was the music licensed from Kraftwerk ? 😁. It is stunningly similar to one of their tracks...

    • @MyGeniusFriend
      @MyGeniusFriend 5 месяцев назад

      At least the bit starting ca. 3:57 is "It's More Fun to Compute" by Kraftwerk, or a cover of it at least.

  • @26rounak
    @26rounak 2 года назад +7

    knock knock Prodigy WHO

  • @ChrisPollitt
    @ChrisPollitt 2 года назад +18

    Prodigy, AOL, Compuserve? All relics of the past. As for the Microsoft Network as a walled garden like the others, that was dead on arrival. Back then, I was using the free FidoNet via BBS systems.

    • @NateMusic-kg5ob
      @NateMusic-kg5ob 2 года назад +10

      who asked

    • @Anthony-Testicali
      @Anthony-Testicali 2 года назад +2

      My brother still has an Aol email account! He complains he regularly gets hacked.....are the two connected?

    • @Psy500
      @Psy500 2 года назад +5

      In 1995 the Internet was still very young (Netscape only coming out at the end of 1994) and the services like Prodigy and Compuserve still were larger. They were offering Internet services as they saw the rapid rise of the Internet and their plan at the time was you'd get on the Internet through them as they would also be an ISP. AOL was the only one that managed this transition.

  • @MaryGillespie-e9w
    @MaryGillespie-e9w Год назад +1

    I miss my windows XP, it was the best for me.

  • @TheSentientCloud
    @TheSentientCloud 2 месяца назад

    Was caught off guard by the Kraftwerk "Home Computer" song lol

  • @38kob
    @38kob 2 месяца назад

    what a great segment

  • @pyeltd.5457
    @pyeltd.5457 2 года назад +6

    Windows would not become reliable till Windows Me and Vista.

    • @Kleineganz
      @Kleineganz Год назад +4

      🤣

    • @godzilla928
      @godzilla928 Год назад +1

      what!?!?!?!??

    • @godzilla928
      @godzilla928 Год назад +2

      But you know that you just named two the most unreliable versions of Windows, right? ME was a total disaster and Vista was dquick cash grab just moments before the full Windows 7 was released :S

    • @Kleineganz
      @Kleineganz Год назад

      @@godzilla928 I'm pretty sure Pye was joking.

  • @TheStevenWhiting
    @TheStevenWhiting Год назад +1

    5:19 Still can't understand how Apple have never been hit with that.

    • @JoerBrando
      @JoerBrando 5 месяцев назад +1

      They have now

  • @Quarker
    @Quarker 2 года назад +6

    is this good opperating systam wndwos 95?? Please respond
    Sent from Internet Explorer

  • @elastronaute1198
    @elastronaute1198 2 года назад +10

    Microsoft ended up bailing out Apple in 1997 by making a $150 million investment and preventing them going bust, because of anti trust laws that prevent complete monopolies in an industry developing. They needed another business in the industry that was large enough but obviously not big enough to be a threat. They underestimated Apple though. While they both now have gargantuan $2 trillion+ market caps, Apple is worth around 20-25% more at the time of writing and makes some $100 billion net profit as opposed to Microsoft's 'modest' $73 billion.

    • @godzilla928
      @godzilla928 Год назад +4

      ah yes. apple bigger, better and hah 'underestimated'...
      why didn't you mention the prices of their products? maybe because it never makes you better if you charge more, huh? maybe because it makes you just... more expensive

    • @elastronaute1198
      @elastronaute1198 Год назад +4

      @@godzilla928 I have no idea what your point is. I was talking about market caps and their relative penetration of the IT industry. I do not own any apple products at all. I personally feel they are over priced for what they are, but that has nothing to do with business success. That is largely down to effective marketing. So again, no idea what you're saying at all.

    • @medes5597
      @medes5597 Год назад

      As Bill Gates said - Steve spent twenty years telling Gates and anyone who listened that Apple was going to be the first computer company that was also an aspirational lifestyle brand. They were going to sell millions of computers at prices that no one would expect because they were selling a lifestyle.
      Gates thought that'd never happen. And it happened pretty much exactly as Steve told them it would and made them the premium brand of the computing world.

    • @moetocafe
      @moetocafe 5 месяцев назад

      @@elastronaute1198 I wouldn't call it "penetration of the IT industry", unless you consider phones, tablets and their overcharging their services. Remove the phones and tablets and Apple is an IT dwarf company, compared to M$. The iPhone fanboys are literally the backbone of Apple.

  • @leegoulding857
    @leegoulding857 2 года назад +3

    Anyone know what the song is around 4:00 ?

    • @lipanook
      @lipanook 2 года назад +3

      Home Computer by Kraftwerk

    • @leegoulding857
      @leegoulding857 2 года назад +2

      @@lipanook Cheers David 👍 Great Tune.

    • @arvindhmani06
      @arvindhmani06 6 месяцев назад

      @@leegoulding857 Try the original German version of the band 's music, they sound so much better imo and I don't even speak German

  • @crumplezone1
    @crumplezone1 2 года назад +9

    Windows95 had more bugs in it than a Malayan Jungle

  • @edirgl
    @edirgl Год назад

    Yo! the food services look exactly the same. The nerds are even drinking 'Talking Rain'

  • @davidhaslett9777
    @davidhaslett9777 2 года назад +2

    I like the introduction where they say that Microsoft wanted to catch up with an Apple Mac that was introduced over 10 years before, seems they are still playing catch up

    • @wistals3deniks
      @wistals3deniks 2 года назад +2

      Macos still lacks features in its gui that Microsoft and Linux have had since windows 7. Things like window snapping.

    • @varunemani
      @varunemani Год назад +2

      ​@@wistals3deniks What are we on 32 bit pc's still, The real question is who really needs any of those windows snapping gimmicks in this day and age? Its full-screen baby or nothing for me! 🍷

    • @Kleineganz
      @Kleineganz Год назад +2

      Macs are overpriced and only appeal to a niche market (they hover around 10-15% of all computer users). Windows overtook Macs decades ago.

  • @DagneZand
    @DagneZand 2 года назад +10

    wtf is Christian Bale doing here

    • @lordvader3697
      @lordvader3697 2 года назад

      Where

    • @DagneZand
      @DagneZand 2 года назад +2

      @@lordvader3697 9:34 (he looks like that character from Big Short)

  • @BacenticFlam
    @BacenticFlam 2 месяца назад

    2:50 - camera work

  • @himankan
    @himankan 2 года назад +6

    Its time people took some time and effort to learn linux. Been a lifetime windows user, adopted ubuntu recently, great os.

    • @Animal_lives_matter
      @Animal_lives_matter 2 года назад +2

      Yeah I'm giving serious thought to this. Still using 7 for now

    • @gesugao
      @gesugao Год назад

      @@Animal_lives_matter try a lts linux mint, the learning curve is not as steep, most of the things work out of the box, and it will help you ease into linux.

    • @Animal_lives_matter
      @Animal_lives_matter Год назад +1

      @Geo’s radio & musical stuff
      But apple tho

    • @himankan
      @himankan Год назад +1

      @Geo’s radio & musical stuff I usually never ask and just look it up in search. There was a recent video by someone who tried to get DaVinci resolve working and failed and he received the same treatment from some bad apples in the linux community. So I can understand the frustration.

    • @himankan
      @himankan Год назад

      @@gesugao I switched from windows to ubuntu lts. It wasn't too different and felt like using an android tablet emulator

  • @thomasangel2317
    @thomasangel2317 2 года назад +2

    Is this the guy from grand designs

    • @mfk5533
      @mfk5533 2 года назад

      No, but he does sound a lot like him

  • @ssrs0pus
    @ssrs0pus 7 месяцев назад

    The Hegelian Di eclectic A real binopular monopular … I played Doom v3.1 on a win 95 Compaq Presario with a 100Meg processor, pre loaded with Magic Carpet not loading. (Why I bought the PC) Customer Service accidentally sent an Apple version disc of M.C. for my Windows computer and re-sent win95 version and even patched it with updated software via 9.6, 19.2 or 32 baud rate. Thanks, Billy Goat, goat, goat, goat, goat! 🐐
    CD or vinyl.
    Both and more!
    There was this mod for Doom?…I never laughed so hard. Mr. Bridges kept telling me to put it in my pants as I picked up ammo…and what a big door that is.
    Thank Q. Siriusly.
    The Great Sag A in the Electric Sky.
    Thank you, beat generation and beyond.🐢
    Thank you, grandma & grandpa.
    Thank goodness

  • @MagikGimp
    @MagikGimp Год назад

    Time has lost all the overlays for the names etc! Doh!

  • @euns1156
    @euns1156 5 месяцев назад +1

    This is why RUclips exists. Thank you BBC!

  • @michaelerwin8744
    @michaelerwin8744 9 месяцев назад

    1:10 did I just saw a UFO or weather balloon?

  • @GregzVR
    @GregzVR Месяц назад

    Intuit still going strong!

  • @mitchellgraham7060
    @mitchellgraham7060 Год назад

    does anyone know what riff that guitarist is playing? i would really like to learn it.

    • @godzilla928
      @godzilla928 Год назад

      but you have camera zoomed in at his very fingers which were doing this very chords?

    • @mitchellgraham7060
      @mitchellgraham7060 Год назад +2

      ​@@godzilla928 I want to know the song he's playing, that's all.

  • @jourwalis-8875
    @jourwalis-8875 2 года назад +4

    I miss the name captions! Who is talking?

    • @prettypointlessvideo
      @prettypointlessvideo 2 года назад

      Me too,

    • @mikepanchaud1
      @mikepanchaud1 Год назад

      This looks like a Newsnight report. Often name supers were put on live via the studio as the taped report was played out. Caption generators (Aston) were very expensive and required a specialist operator. Also there probably was not time to add these prior to tx.

  • @HikikomoriDev
    @HikikomoriDev Месяц назад

    I preffered the Macintosh Performa.

  • @moonshinepz
    @moonshinepz Год назад

    It'll never catch on.

  • @Kylefassbinderful
    @Kylefassbinderful 2 года назад +7

    LMAO ohhhh 90s, you had no idea that in a little over 25 years the world wouldn't be afraid of little ol' *mIcROsOFt* but would instead be afraid of giants like Facebook, Google, Apple and Tik Tok.

    • @baileyharrison1030
      @baileyharrison1030 11 месяцев назад +1

      Microsoft is up there with them and is bigger than all but Apple.

    • @38kob
      @38kob 2 месяца назад

      it literally says that at the end lol

  • @proyectosit-sapmora8284
    @proyectosit-sapmora8284 11 месяцев назад +1

    Great report as how Win95 was launched. Could you share this great documental in another languages as Spanish? I understand, the English is the universal but not the unique language. Thanks in advance!

    • @NickMullet
      @NickMullet 10 месяцев назад

      Who’s going to change the language? It was made by the bbc in the 90s, you want someone to dub this whole thing?? 😂😂
      Edit : why don’t you do it yourself?

  • @shimizukebin
    @shimizukebin 2 года назад +2

    Those 2 guys/experts from 0:33 to 1:04 are Dutch people. Just hearing that Thick Dutch accent lmao
    Mister Corona himself in the days where he still was experiencing with computer virus instead of real life viruses lmao

  • @2tell99
    @2tell99 9 месяцев назад +2

    1995:Mummy mummy what's a PC?
    2024:Mummy Mummy what's a PC!

  • @nemesis851_
    @nemesis851_ 9 месяцев назад

    Was this about Microsoft or APPLE ?!?

  • @TtableWhey
    @TtableWhey 28 дней назад

    I don't think this report explains the issue very well. Was the Microsoft 95 operating system making certain software applications unusable on Microsoft 95?
    That's their prerogative as far as I'm concerned.
    Yes, it's very Greedy but...
    They've developed the platform that is making everyone want to have a computer.
    If I was owner of a software application at the time I would realize the game is up and either 1. develop a better OS than Windows
    or 2. sell out to Windows
    or 3. move into a different area of business

  • @fredflintstoner596
    @fredflintstoner596 Год назад

    IT WILL NEVER CATCH ON !

  • @captainprototype187
    @captainprototype187 Год назад

    When Apple was only a few years away from hring steve jobs again because it was in big big trouble.

  •  9 месяцев назад

    Imagine being today's apple at that antimonopolistic era

  • @ukranaut
    @ukranaut 5 месяцев назад +1

    This is THE whiniest report I've ever seen.

  • @ForgetReligion3179
    @ForgetReligion3179 2 года назад +2

    Microsoft got greedy after XP as from then on you had to buy Microsoft word and now all office products. That's crazy and greedy, if you buy a Microsoft then all products should be included.

    • @IkarusKommt
      @IkarusKommt Год назад +2

      You always had to buy MS Word and other office software.

    • @Kleineganz
      @Kleineganz Год назад

      These days, all Windows computers come with the OS for free and they're letting you upgrade for free (I upgraded from 8.1 to 10 and then 10 to 11 for free). They make their money elsewhere (licensing OEM Windows to PC manufacturers, and of course subscriptions to Office 365, not to mention all the corporate level tools they create, like Microsoft Azure.

    • @steeviebops
      @steeviebops Год назад

      Windows and Office were always separate products.

  • @NickMullet
    @NickMullet 10 месяцев назад +2

    This is so negative. Starts off saying windows is only doing what apple done years ago, goes on to say windows is starting a monopoly with its new system. Hilarious.

    • @38kob
      @38kob 2 месяца назад

      both true, at the time

  • @tomtaylor5577
    @tomtaylor5577 3 месяца назад

    0:06
    My favourite #lady was #diana
    Nowwwwwsw #kate innnnn the yearrrr of #covidddddddddd #flirt
    #2024
    But anyway
    #2055
    ????
    Internet
    I dont know
    How far
    Hope far enough betttttttterrrrrrrrrrr
    Ha

  • @charlieballantry5971
    @charlieballantry5971 Год назад +1

    And now it is crystal clear what he truly represents and the agenda he is part of.

  • @technicalmachine1671
    @technicalmachine1671 2 года назад

    0:40 Bill Gates invented Web3

  • @ChrisPollitt
    @ChrisPollitt 2 года назад +13

    Windows 95/98 was so unstable with daily crashes it pushed me to move to Linux.

    • @NateMusic-kg5ob
      @NateMusic-kg5ob 2 года назад +22

      who asked

    • @djtomoy
      @djtomoy 2 года назад +9

      Whoever shall mention windows must know they will hear the echo of Linux

    • @matsuz100
      @matsuz100 2 года назад +5

      I would need to reinstall Windows 95 and 98 every 4-6 months, it would start doing stupid action then get a digital paralysis. Window XP was much better, windows 11 seems solid once they work out what is hogging all the PCs resources.

    • @davidlister370
      @davidlister370 2 года назад

      ok

    • @ekemon631
      @ekemon631 2 года назад +5

      @@NateMusic-kg5ob Who permitted you to reply

  • @andeeharry
    @andeeharry Год назад

    Too big you say? HA...you have no idea. It is one of the Alphabet corps tthat run the world, but for now, it is just staring out. Look at how cute it is....awww.