imagine making a new state of the art floppy drive for nostalgia reasons more then for storage and space it's slow it's loud it's the new floppy disk drive and installing windows 12 off say 20 disks🤣🤣🤣 just for the shits and giggles factor alone
@@raven4k998 A new state of the art floppy drive would probably have pretty good capacity, Jaz drives in 1998 could already used 2 GB disks. It would still be slow and loud though.
did you use the windows 95 training software back then or did you ignore it and just use windows 95 back then cause I used it and now I have IT knowledge to make people shit themselves with but you don't know IT how did you cheat on the test and I am like I just did ok cause it's much easier then saying oh I learned IT from windows 95 cause no one believes me despite it being true🤣🤣🤣
Most of the 80's stuff was shot with vidicon tubes, you can notice if they were used if bright lights leave a trail behind. 90's stuff used CCD sensors, and yes, the picture they produce is softer and without the light trails of vidicon tubes.
I know it sounds crazy but sometimes it feel like hd looks better than real life....drives me nuts. I agree sometimes sd just feels easier on the eys lol.
Yeah, it looks like blurry garbage and the audio sounds muddled and crappy. Everything is so much better now with high definition picture and more sophisticated audio capture equipment. I really never will understand people that like that awful and muddy quality to the better modern stuff. It's miles better by comparison to anything they had back then in literally every way.
His RAM recommendations are exactly 1000 times larger today, 23 years later. 4 possible but not recommended, 8 minimum, 16 for power users, and some may even want as much as 32.
32 for Power users ? More for Noobs, who are to dumb to use the right OS & Tools ! I use PC's since 91, and i do anything with just 4GB. I write my own stuff, i encode & cut videos, i use photoshop, i use virtual machines, emulators, proxy scanners, exploiters (and other haxxxxor stuff) etc etc ! Anything from A to Z (ok except boring office stuff and 3D Games that i can play on a console) i'm what's called a Poweruser. Most idiots out there, buy a threadripper, throw in 32GB Ram, to play the newest shit, and think there are now power users. No ! A real poweruser can and will use his machine from a to z, and can at least one programming language, and he will try to use tools that are not overblowed shit, that need 344395458 Files, and 495849548594 MB Ram just for the fucking startup !
I'm still rocking with 4gb of ram, BSEL modded Intel Pentium E2160, vmodded ATI HD4670 and 19'' 1280x1024 monitor. I can play AAA games like The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion/Skyrim, The Witcher 2, Mass Effect 1/2/3, Dragon Age 1/2/3 and Fallout 3/NV/TTW. Too bad I can't play Fallout 4 or The Witcher 3 because my GPU doesn't support DX11, but I can watch ''Let's play'' videos and it's almost like playing the game. I have my studio tour and gaming setup video on my channel.
Aww I wished they still made this show. I wasn't old enough to have watched most episodes, but I like going back through them to see what tech was like way back when and this show does a fantastic job at explaining tech
Yeah, he turns 80 in a few months. I also think it'd end up a pale imitation of the original that few people would watch because there's so many alternative sources of information nowadays. Sorta like how the Arsenio Hall Show was a big deal circa 1990, but when it rebooted in 2013 people were like "yeah this isn't really necessary."
I'd only be interested in the old 80s format of the show, where they had intellectual discussions on computing topics rather than the later shift where they almost exclusively covered commercial products in small snippets. I mean, there's tons of review videos that get into way better coverage of specific products that come out. In contrast, there is little to no structured videos on discussions of computing technology by qualified individuals, like they did back in the day of Gary Kildall.
For me, taskbar is actually one hell of a feature even now. Side note: I'm using osx daily for ~10 years and I miss having proper taskbar there. Maybe I'm old school, but taskbar at bottom, locked, don't combine any taskbar buttons. That's how it should be.
+1 The changes made up until WinXP were really helpful to the end user. Like the taskbar, start, etc. Win8 is/was an experiment to try something that should have never worked. Also, compare the time it takes for this PC to open up Word/Excel. It's even faster than today's 1500x more powerful machines. M$ really went on a sloppy road, I doubt Win10 will be better.
Droogie128 Windows 95 probably had just as much friction as Windows 8 did, simply because it majorly screwed with the way things worked. If you have to have "classes" to teach how to use your OS that people actually need just to use the OS, it's not intuitive. The only difference is we didn't have a bunch of loud people on the internet acting as the vocal majority.
ChannelSho Windows 95 was widely praised when it came out as being intuitive. Classes are offered for just about everything. Few actually needed it. It was an evolution of Windows 3.1. The GUI itself became the focus instead of DOS, though. The biggest problem with Windows 8 is that is it not designed for use with anything but a touch screen.
What reviews I could pick out for Windows 95 had no mention of it being intuitive at all, and a lot of the praise was more for the technical aspects it offered over Windows 3.1 and DOS. The only part that was intuitive was people saw "Start" and went there first. After that it's a crapshoot. And really what Windows 8 screwed with initially was that it rearranged how to do some things. If the improvements done in 8.1 were there from the get go, there would've been a lot less confusion. It's easy to see how the Start Menu and taskbar is the best thing since sliced bread since everyone copied it, but you have to put yourself in the mindset back then when it was a brand new thing and nobody had no real idea how to make highly usable GUIs.
It's so interesting to look back at these videos as a history of the computer age. I remember some of these episodes when they originally aired. The most interesting part is looking up some of the people they feature in these episodes to see "where are they now". So many of them are still around in the computer industry in some way. The one guy I couldn't find at all is Giles Bateman! I'm surprised he has almost no modern presence online! He was such a big part of the Chronicles back in the 90s.
I was in an accident and went into a coma in 1994. I came out of the coma 2 months ago and have been using these videos to get chronologically updated on the new tech. I am up to 2006 now and the Microsoft Zune has just been released. This surely seems like the ultimate ipod killer, and i can't wait to see how advanced the 2019 Zune models are when i catch up!
I’ll save you the time. Windows went out of business in 2007 after Windows 2006 bombed. Music was also outlawed that year. Computers were replaced with cerebral implants in 2008 with preloaded false memories of things like accidents and comas for people who broke the music laws.
20 years later our OSes still run like this at a basic level. Click on a file and it opens the associate application, drag and drop, etc. This was a game changer, especially with the features Windows 95B and C added.
+Gustavo Maricate remember windows 95 was only 50M, windows 98 was already 5 times that size and Xp was 5 times 98 size and vista was 10 times XP size!!!!
Today marks Windows 95's 25th anniversary, a perfect time to watch this cool Computer Chronicles episode! It was the first operating system I ever used since I began using it on an actual desktop PC in 1999, which my parents got rid of back in 2002 when our Windows 95 PCs were replaced by Windows XP PCs, like for me, an HP Pavilion desktop PC with Windows XP Home Edition on it. I have lots of fond memories of both Windows 95 and Windows XP! They were fantastic operating systems, but today's focus is Windows 95.
I remember those preciously short lived days of using dial-up modem internet. I specifically remember Netscape Navigator. The best memory I have of computers is of being in my class and our teacher instructing us on how to remove and clean the mouse-balls; she demonstrated how easy it is for dust to collect on them.
I still clean my mouse-ball every few weeks. Except nobody showed me how to do it. I remember kids throwing mouse-balls around in class, though. Then the laser mice came out (ahh -- my eyes!) I also still have a 56k modem sitting on my desk just in case FiOS fails or whatever. Strangely I haven't had to use it in years. FiOS must be pretty good. Maybe I should get that modem off my desk.
@12:31 Stewart references "Windows 96" which comes off as a joke but I wonder if he had inside knowledge that Microsoft was indeed working on a Windows 96 (code named Nashville)
In 1995 I was responsible for Windows platform support at the company which made that browser in the opening credits. ;-) We were using a 3rd party TCP/IP stack with Windows 3.11a which required a unique user client license key to be hand-typed at each workstation. And we were statically addressing clients due to the broken BOOTP/DHCP performance of the add-on. When the W95 gold beta hit the streets, I made the call that it was "good enough" as the added benefits of PnP hardware support and no need for an expensive, buggy TCP/IP client and thus we left Win311a to history except for legacy client support and QA. I was finally able to get some sleep.
22:48 I had no idea domain names used to be free! Man you could've made so much money registering domains back then and holding on to them for a little while.
@@shaider1982 True. He might get some slack for sponsors but the man needs money. He's the Computer Chronicles but even more technical and way more welcoming to this generation. I'm 20 and my 30-40 year old friends like Linus, since they're about the same age as him. His thumbnails might br clickbaity, but his content is professional and just genuinely fun to watch. He has his biases, but so does everyone and he still manages to be very objective, I like him.
I still remember going into CompUSA during the Windows 95 launch event - the number of people crammed into that store was insane. Of course they were also offering discounts on software to coincide with the launch, but there were a LOT of people buying Windows 95, I had never seen the store so packed before or after.
I recall this too. There were midnight madness sales since MS helped support those marketing campaigns to get people into the door of stores. Those days of brick and mortar ringing up of sales are long gone.
@@sirmount2636 Yeah, I remember going in there all the time as a kid/teen, that and the Computer City that was in the plaza on the opposite side of the road, lol. Computer City closed down long before CompUSA though. I remember picking "Primal Rage" out of the discount bin during the event - a very good port of the arcade original.
Everything had less stuff, windows had less API's, it had less programs, HTML itself didn't support half the stuff it does nowadays, 99% of webpages were just like a Word document, if they were still like that you'd download them at 2kbs today as well xD
yeah well I tried gigabit and it was no faster then 750 megs a sec internet so I downgraded back down to 750 to save the money cause I did not see a reason for faster connection when the internet speed was the same on a whole for me to use
I wouldn't be surprised if many people were still using 2400 baud modems, which got built into a lot of stuff. That's 300 bytes per second. Which actually probably would take too long even with web 1.0. Unless the pages were super simple.
Meanwhile in Germany 2023, carriers still throttle your mobile bandwidth anywhere from 16kbps to 64kbps after your allowance is exceeded. Yes, that's kilobits.
Windows 3 was completely different. The programs that were running were on the desktop. Unopened programs were in a special program called Program manager. Files were managed with a file manager.
I'm a PC tech and I like Windows 95 because it was the OS on my first PC. But, in my opinion, software back then - including Win95 was very buggy, especially when a program first came out. Windows 98 SE (2nd Ed.) was much better (and just right even today, for an old PC). Win98 is relatively small, fast (w/ 256mb ram), very compatible with hardware and software, and easy for novices to use.
It was already long dead before then, with Apple launching several colossal failures to get a new OS to standards they had wanted since 1987. The amount of financial bleeding (cumulatively in the billions of dollars over the span of years) that went on because of inept management there is a case history in itself.
Watching this on my Raspberry Pi 4 in a Argon M.2 case, it's running at 2GHz (overclocked), with a 500Gb M.2 Sata hard disc and 8Gb RAM. My first Windows 95 machine had a Pentium 1 processor which I think ran at about 200MHz, 32Mb RAM and a 50Gb HDD. My pi was under £200 for everything my Windows 95 machine was £2000 with a printer and separate scanner. To this day my Windows 95 machine is the most I’ve paid for a computer including my 27” Retina 5K, 32Gb RAM iMac. Even with all the progress that’s been made with computers and computing over the last 40 years or so, since Windows 1.0, we are still at the very beginning of our journey. My grandchildren are going to see things we can't even imagine now and they will accept them as a norm the way we accept things like the mobile phone.
I started with my own-designed OS in 1979, then CP/M, MP/M, DOS 1.X, Win 1.01 and onwards. Win 95 was a welcome improvement. I still have a working S-100 CP/M & MP/M system that is exactly 43 years old in 2024.
***** Not me. I wasn't excited. I was still using my 1 MB Macintosh with a dot matrix printer in 1995. I didn't get a PC with Windows on it until 1998. That was one Apple and four PCs ago. BTW, I still have the 1 MB Macintosh and it still works. All the other computers (including a 64 MB iMac) all died on me.
@@hexagonist23 I think even a 486 had 4 or 8K L1 cache. L2 cache, if it was there at all, was physical RAM chips on the MB next to the CPU. I forget how much there was. I wanna say 64/128/256KB L2 cache.
I miss having mind-blowing, consumer-level technological innovations every few years. Compared to the '90s, things just seem incremental, and the technological innovations these days seem to be largely limited to professionals. It's been so long since I've truly been wowed by a technological innovation geared towards the average consumer.
The 2 features I liked about Windows 95 is that it ran without the need to rest on Disc Operating System (DOS), and file names were not limited to 8 characters, followed by a dot or period and a suffix.
I remember how windows 3.1 was used by a lot of people back then. Most of the time they worked in Dos, but for word of Excel they would first start windows (took forever) and then Word. After the document was finished, shut down windows and continue in Dos. Windows 95 put an end to that, and everything was done from Windows 95.
its now 28 years since i went to the computer shop and bought my windows 95 upgrade then later the Plus add on cd ,i still have it in my collection ,just before i went to a demo of IBM OS2 warp , being shown live at my local computer shop, i had just got my first PC this had windows 3.11 and dos 6.22 installed , it was a a Pentium P90 800 meg hard drive 4 speed cd rom drive ,the good old days ,seems like yesterday
I bought my first Windows 95 computer in 1997 from the manufacturer's local store. I love the various Microsoft video games (e.g. Arcade, Flight Simulator, etc.) which were good at the time.
+laughing nutter the video is from the rips on archive. org. some episodes are in worse shape and some are nearly unplayable but they came from a donation by Stewart Cheifet himself. they are broadcast tapes.
7:42-7:51 Omigosh! She was playing "Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds," my first favorite Humongous Entertainment title! I still play that classic game to this day, thanks to the likes of ScummVM!
I definitely remember that Space Cadet Pinball game. I think the highest score I ever got was a little more than 6,000,000 points, but I've forgotten the exact score, I'm afraid. I never reached that high of score again since then. I miss so many things about Windows 95. That game is just one of the things I miss about it. I would kill (not literately, of course) for a Windows 95 computer again.
@@JohnStopman that was probably your company network or something. back then pretty much everyone had 56k and isdn was only just rolling out with their 128k. Consumer dsl took off in the early 2000s
@@beardsntools I had to delve into some history, and this is what I could find: In those days (1997), I used Telekabel who offered broadband internet via cable (1.5Mbits/s), wich was upgraded to 2Mbits/s a few years later. I distinctly remember having a downspeed of 262Kbytes/s which equals 2Mbits/s, and most likely remembered the incorrect year: it was 1999 and not 1997.
Right-click dragging files off a floppy and making multiple shortcuts off them directly in the root of your C drive is just pure chaos energy.
imagine making a new state of the art floppy drive for nostalgia reasons more then for storage and space it's slow it's loud it's the new floppy disk drive and installing windows 12 off say 20 disks🤣🤣🤣
just for the shits and giggles factor alone
@@raven4k998 A new state of the art floppy drive would probably have pretty good capacity, Jaz drives in 1998 could already used 2 GB disks. It would still be slow and loud though.
Windows 95 looks very promising indeed. Can't wait to get my hands on a copy.
Same here, it's supposed to be faster but I was just starting to feel comfy with Win 3.1! Hard to keep up with this amazing technology
I know ! Lots of colours, now that’s a step up from my black screen of msdos 👍
Hahaha this is like really old now and we're actually on Windows 11. The video is a look into the past not an advert for a new Operating system
@@drewb1263 Microsoft is only on Windows 11, they'll need to release 84 more versions of Windows to get to 95!
I was skeptical for a year, got it in '96, it was worth it!
Don't copy that floppy! Priceless!!!
All 13 of them, or 25+ if you wanted to copy Win95 using bootleg 1.4 MiB floppies.
You need to plug in then unplug hundreds of floppies in order to install MS Office 97
LOL
@@MrGencyExit64 did you get that from Michael MJD?
Lol, only learning about that catchphrase now. Never heard it in Europe. We just copied everything we needed, lol.
*plays two seconds of 3d pinball*
"... okay now let's get out of this..."
me: :(
no keep at it it's to much fun lol
32 MB - THE POWER USERS!
Replace the Megabytes by Gigabytes for today's standards :P
And then replace the Gigabytes for Terabytes for tomorrow's standards. Then Peta... Then....
Daniel Elvebak No back to kilobytes in the future
Jeremy Peeples When I took a computer class in 1992 my instructor said a computer with 16 MB of ram wouldn't be obsolete for at least 20 years. lol
Jeremy Peeples
32 MB was more than enough when this came out... at least for Windows 95. Running NT with 32 MB was no fun at all...
It's strange how the sound of a dialup modem once sounded high-tech and futuristic, but now sounds extremly retro.
did you use the windows 95 training software back then or did you ignore it and just use windows 95 back then cause I used it and now I have IT knowledge to make people shit themselves with but you don't know IT how did you cheat on the test and I am like I just did ok cause it's much easier then saying oh I learned IT from windows 95 cause no one believes me despite it being true🤣🤣🤣
I love the way 80s and 90s video looks. I miss it :( It looks so much warmer and softer than todays ultra HD. Nostalgia...
those hair cuts too hahaha
Most of the 80's stuff was shot with vidicon tubes, you can notice if they were used if bright lights leave a trail behind.
90's stuff used CCD sensors, and yes, the picture they produce is softer and without the light trails of vidicon tubes.
@@GoldSrc_ That's pretty knowledgeable. :)
I know it sounds crazy but sometimes it feel like hd looks better than real life....drives me nuts. I agree sometimes sd just feels easier on the eys lol.
Yeah, it looks like blurry garbage and the audio sounds muddled and crappy. Everything is so much better now with high definition picture and more sophisticated audio capture equipment. I really never will understand people that like that awful and muddy quality to the better modern stuff. It's miles better by comparison to anything they had back then in literally every way.
His RAM recommendations are exactly 1000 times larger today, 23 years later. 4 possible but not recommended, 8 minimum, 16 for power users, and some may even want as much as 32.
1024
32 for Power users ? More for Noobs, who are to dumb to use the right OS & Tools !
I use PC's since 91, and i do anything with just 4GB.
I write my own stuff, i encode & cut videos, i use photoshop, i use virtual machines, emulators, proxy scanners, exploiters (and other haxxxxor stuff) etc etc ! Anything from A to Z (ok except boring office stuff and 3D Games that i can play on a console) i'm what's called a Poweruser.
Most idiots out there, buy a threadripper, throw in 32GB Ram, to play the newest shit, and think there are now power users.
No ! A real poweruser can and will use his machine from a to z, and can at least one programming language, and he will try to use tools that are not overblowed shit, that need 344395458 Files, and 495849548594 MB Ram just for the fucking startup !
I'm still rocking with 4gb of ram, BSEL modded Intel Pentium E2160, vmodded ATI HD4670 and 19'' 1280x1024 monitor. I can play AAA games like The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion/Skyrim, The Witcher 2, Mass Effect 1/2/3, Dragon Age 1/2/3 and Fallout 3/NV/TTW. Too bad I can't play Fallout 4 or The Witcher 3 because my GPU doesn't support DX11, but I can watch ''Let's play'' videos and it's almost like playing the game. I have my studio tour and gaming setup video on my channel.
@@REALSlutHunter You're just bragging.
It's 1024, not 1000 (MiB vs. MB)
Aww I wished they still made this show. I wasn't old enough to have watched most episodes, but I like going back through them to see what tech was like way back when and this show does a fantastic job at explaining tech
Yeah, he turns 80 in a few months. I also think it'd end up a pale imitation of the original that few people would watch because there's so many alternative sources of information nowadays. Sorta like how the Arsenio Hall Show was a big deal circa 1990, but when it rebooted in 2013 people were like "yeah this isn't really necessary."
I'd only be interested in the old 80s format of the show, where they had intellectual discussions on computing topics rather than the later shift where they almost exclusively covered commercial products in small snippets. I mean, there's tons of review videos that get into way better coverage of specific products that come out. In contrast, there is little to no structured videos on discussions of computing technology by qualified individuals, like they did back in the day of Gary Kildall.
Why,are you here
Windows 95, Microsoft Plus!, and Tower Records? This video is a nostalgia overload!
is microsoft plus still around?
@@raven4k998 No, it's discontinued after Microsoft Plus! for Windows XP
For me, taskbar is actually one hell of a feature even now. Side note: I'm using osx daily for ~10 years and I miss having proper taskbar there.
Maybe I'm old school, but taskbar at bottom, locked, don't combine any taskbar buttons. That's how it should be.
The temptation to copy a floppy is just to great.
then do it evil one do it give in to the dark side embrace doing evil things muhahahahahahahahahahahahaha
@@raven4k998
Back when using a computer was fun!
I loved installing many random little applications. Nowadays almost everything is done through the internet.
It's way better on local disk space now. You probably haven't had to clean up your hard drive in a while.
And getting a lot of random little viruses in the process from blindly installing all kind of questionable stuff
15:29 "You have to refer to a book for the answer." Those were the days before Google.
Before the Democrats bought Google it worked great for them, a nightmare for us coming soon....
Yes. The start button was intuitive. Hear that Windows 8? :)
+1
The changes made up until WinXP were really helpful to the end user. Like the taskbar, start, etc. Win8 is/was an experiment to try something that should have never worked. Also, compare the time it takes for this PC to open up Word/Excel. It's even faster than today's 1500x more powerful machines. M$ really went on a sloppy road, I doubt Win10 will be better.
Innovative in 1995, not now!!!
Droogie128
Windows 95 probably had just as much friction as Windows 8 did, simply because it majorly screwed with the way things worked. If you have to have "classes" to teach how to use your OS that people actually need just to use the OS, it's not intuitive.
The only difference is we didn't have a bunch of loud people on the internet acting as the vocal majority.
ChannelSho Windows 95 was widely praised when it came out as being intuitive. Classes are offered for just about everything. Few actually needed it. It was an evolution of Windows 3.1. The GUI itself became the focus instead of DOS, though.
The biggest problem with Windows 8 is that is it not designed for use with anything but a touch screen.
What reviews I could pick out for Windows 95 had no mention of it being intuitive at all, and a lot of the praise was more for the technical aspects it offered over Windows 3.1 and DOS. The only part that was intuitive was people saw "Start" and went there first. After that it's a crapshoot.
And really what Windows 8 screwed with initially was that it rearranged how to do some things. If the improvements done in 8.1 were there from the get go, there would've been a lot less confusion.
It's easy to see how the Start Menu and taskbar is the best thing since sliced bread since everyone copied it, but you have to put yourself in the mindset back then when it was a brand new thing and nobody had no real idea how to make highly usable GUIs.
win 95 was the first operating system i used at home, great memories
It's so interesting to look back at these videos as a history of the computer age. I remember some of these episodes when they originally aired. The most interesting part is looking up some of the people they feature in these episodes to see "where are they now". So many of them are still around in the computer industry in some way. The one guy I couldn't find at all is Giles Bateman! I'm surprised he has almost no modern presence online! He was such a big part of the Chronicles back in the 90s.
I was in an accident and went into a coma in 1994. I came out of the coma 2 months ago and have been using these videos to get chronologically updated on the new tech. I am up to 2006 now and the Microsoft Zune has just been released. This surely seems like the ultimate ipod killer, and i can't wait to see how advanced the 2019 Zune models are when i catch up!
I’ll save you the time. Windows went out of business in 2007 after Windows 2006 bombed. Music was also outlawed that year. Computers were replaced with cerebral implants in 2008 with preloaded false memories of things like accidents and comas for people who broke the music laws.
2019 was a huge year for the ZunePhone when Microsoft rolled out the highly anticipated ZunePhone OS 95'. The update went on sale for just 129.99.
Look, no disrespect. But that's sounds like one way to experience the advancement of tech
You have joined YT and uploaded stuff while in coma
@@MF175mp dam that breaks the immersion doesn't it
“Get rid of any virus you have before you upgrade” like that’s the only time you wanna get rid of viruses 😂
yeah you only care about getting rid of a virus when you upgrade to windows 95 love that one😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
20 years later our OSes still run like this at a basic level. Click on a file and it opens the associate application, drag and drop, etc. This was a game changer, especially with the features Windows 95B and C added.
+AshtonColeman If it ain't broke don't fix it. That's why the Start menu returned in Windows 10.
It's functionally the same only we have more than 2MB of VRAM now.
@@TheDutchGame Unless you're Apple, then you take away features and charge more money for it.
2002-2003 Kindergarden, my school still had Windows 95, picked up a keyboard at 5 years old, already knew what I was doing.
I'm gonna upgrade my Win8 to W95 :P
***** just do it...
Already done ;)
*****
lying sack of shit.
I'm running xfce with a chicago95 theme on a Pi4😁
I upgraded win 10 with ms-dos 6.22 and win 3.1
1995 - 32MB of RAM... 2015 - 32GB of RAM
+Gustavo Maricate 20 years, 1000x the amount.. So 500x more RAM per decade haha.
+Gustavo Maricate and a few gigs of hardrive was impressive!!!
+hifijohn my first had only 2 GB WD Caviar
+Gustavo Maricate remember windows 95 was only 50M, windows 98 was already 5 times that size and Xp was 5 times 98 size and vista was 10 times XP size!!!!
hifijohn thats great I did not know that I remember that the size of the games in 1995 is about 10 or 20MB
Today marks Windows 95's 25th anniversary, a perfect time to watch this cool Computer Chronicles episode! It was the first operating system I ever used since I began using it on an actual desktop PC in 1999, which my parents got rid of back in 2002 when our Windows 95 PCs were replaced by Windows XP PCs, like for me, an HP Pavilion desktop PC with Windows XP Home Edition on it. I have lots of fond memories of both Windows 95 and Windows XP! They were fantastic operating systems, but today's focus is Windows 95.
Good times, computing had another magic, even with analog modems.
Stewart Cheifet is much younger here, the years go by!
Love looking at these old shows. Can't beleive it was that long ago. Remember it well. Where are we going to be in another 21 years......
Dead lol
Network Neighbourhood, there's some nostalgia right there!!
It took 300 People to develop software that fit on 13 floppy disks. That's incredible.
Oh my God I lost it when he showed Klik N' Play at the end. That program set me on the road to becoming a game programmer!
I remember those preciously short lived days of using dial-up modem internet. I specifically remember Netscape Navigator.
The best memory I have of computers is of being in my class and our teacher instructing us on how to remove and clean the mouse-balls; she demonstrated how easy it is for dust to collect on them.
I still clean my mouse-ball every few weeks. Except nobody showed me how to do it. I remember kids throwing mouse-balls around in class, though. Then the laser mice came out (ahh -- my eyes!)
I also still have a 56k modem sitting on my desk just in case FiOS fails or whatever. Strangely I haven't had to use it in years. FiOS must be pretty good. Maybe I should get that modem off my desk.
@12:31 Stewart references "Windows 96" which comes off as a joke but I wonder if he had inside knowledge that Microsoft was indeed working on a Windows 96 (code named Nashville)
In 1995 I was responsible for Windows platform support at the company which made that browser in the opening credits. ;-)
We were using a 3rd party TCP/IP stack with Windows 3.11a which required a unique user client license key to be hand-typed at each workstation. And we were statically addressing clients due to the broken BOOTP/DHCP performance of the add-on.
When the W95 gold beta hit the streets, I made the call that it was "good enough" as the added benefits of PnP hardware support and no need for an expensive, buggy TCP/IP client and thus we left Win311a to history except for legacy client support and QA.
I was finally able to get some sleep.
Interesting, thanks for sharing
22:48 I had no idea domain names used to be free! Man you could've made so much money registering domains back then and holding on to them for a little while.
These guys should reboot the show on youtube.
stewart cheifet is nearly 80 why would he want to
Linus is one of the new guys doing this
@@shaider1982 True. He might get some slack for sponsors but the man needs money. He's the Computer Chronicles but even more technical and way more welcoming to this generation. I'm 20 and my 30-40 year old friends like Linus, since they're about the same age as him.
His thumbnails might br clickbaity, but his content is professional and just genuinely fun to watch. He has his biases, but so does everyone and he still manages to be very objective, I like him.
Apps still launch faster than on my Windows 10.
SSD lyfe bb
and don't crash lol
I still remember going into CompUSA during the Windows 95 launch event - the number of people crammed into that store was insane. Of course they were also offering discounts on software to coincide with the launch, but there were a LOT of people buying Windows 95, I had never seen the store so packed before or after.
CompUSA! What a memory.
I recall this too. There were midnight madness sales since MS helped support those marketing campaigns to get people into the door of stores. Those days of brick and mortar ringing up of sales are long gone.
@@sirmount2636 Yeah, I remember going in there all the time as a kid/teen, that and the Computer City that was in the plaza on the opposite side of the road, lol. Computer City closed down long before CompUSA though. I remember picking "Primal Rage" out of the discount bin during the event - a very good port of the arcade original.
Funny how the Internet was usable at 2.0K/s back then. HTML was lean and efficient, something most sites don't bother with anymore.
Everything had less stuff, windows had less API's, it had less programs, HTML itself didn't support half the stuff it does nowadays, 99% of webpages were just like a Word document, if they were still like that you'd download them at 2kbs today as well xD
yeah well I tried gigabit and it was no faster then 750 megs a sec internet so I downgraded back down to 750 to save the money cause I did not see a reason for faster connection when the internet speed was the same on a whole for me to use
@Drew Just use an adblocker and the problem goes away, for the most part. Even on a fast spec system the difference is noticeable.
I wouldn't be surprised if many people were still using 2400 baud modems, which got built into a lot of stuff. That's 300 bytes per second. Which actually probably would take too long even with web 1.0. Unless the pages were super simple.
Meanwhile in Germany 2023, carriers still throttle your mobile bandwidth anywhere from 16kbps to 64kbps after your allowance is exceeded. Yes, that's kilobits.
It was a great time back then, dial up internet, CRT monitor, Windows 95, all new internet browsing, no mobile, no google.
I never had Windows 3 but man, it's dark times when Windows 95 looks like an upgrade.
Windows 3 was completely different. The programs that were running were on the desktop. Unopened programs were in a special program called Program manager. Files were managed with a file manager.
Amazing! I can watch this show all day.
I'm a PC tech and I like Windows 95 because it was the OS on my first PC. But, in my opinion, software back then - including Win95 was very buggy, especially when a program first came out. Windows 98 SE (2nd Ed.) was much better (and just right even today, for an old PC). Win98 is relatively small, fast (w/ 256mb ram), very compatible with hardware and software, and easy for novices to use.
Pentium Pro 5 million transistors. My 7 year old i7 2600k has well over 1 billion. Time flys.
A great look back in time. The talk of doubling RAM in terms of megabytes - 4, 8, 16 and 32 in 1995 is talked of in gigabytes today.
Watching this on a phone. Crazy how far things have come.
Windows 95 was like "Take that you Mac OS" and Mac OS died.
so true so true and os2 warp died along with mac os at the same time 😂😂😂😂
It was already long dead before then, with Apple launching several colossal failures to get a new OS to standards they had wanted since 1987. The amount of financial bleeding (cumulatively in the billions of dollars over the span of years) that went on because of inept management there is a case history in itself.
thanks for putting the release year in the title i had no idea windows 95 came out in 1995
That's the original broadcast date.
Remember kiddies, don't copy that floppy!
mommy what's a Floppy?
Holy shit....I remember those UV filter screens on monitors. haha.
it's time for you to go back to school windows 95 school muhahahahahahahahahaha
I uses to take them off when my parents weren't looking so I could enjoy brighter images
_This is a music CD I bought at Tower Records._
Aw, man, I miss the 90's.
12:50 -- "You get one of these and you push it, and if you're playing Doom, you get booted back to the desktop and get killed by a Cacodemon." :P
I fell in love with Jill Sonderby
Me too. She's probably 50 or so by now.
Me too.
I would have a difficult time learning Win95 in her class.
Watching this on my Raspberry Pi 4 in a Argon M.2 case, it's running at 2GHz (overclocked), with a 500Gb M.2 Sata hard disc and 8Gb RAM. My first Windows 95 machine had a Pentium 1 processor which I think ran at about 200MHz, 32Mb RAM and a 50Gb HDD. My pi was under £200 for everything my Windows 95 machine was £2000 with a printer and separate scanner. To this day my Windows 95 machine is the most I’ve paid for a computer including my 27” Retina 5K, 32Gb RAM iMac.
Even with all the progress that’s been made with computers and computing over the last 40 years or so, since Windows 1.0, we are still at the very beginning of our journey. My grandchildren are going to see things we can't even imagine now and they will accept them as a norm the way we accept things like the mobile phone.
A 50GB hard drive would have been enormous back then. A system with that CPU and RAM would've normally had a 1GB or 2GB hard drive.
IMHO Windows 95 was the beginning of the modern PC
I started with my own-designed OS in 1979, then CP/M, MP/M, DOS 1.X, Win 1.01 and onwards. Win 95 was a welcome improvement. I still have a working S-100 CP/M & MP/M system that is exactly 43 years old in 2024.
20 years ago wow time flies!! On Windows 10 as I'm writing this.
+Ken Gevon so am i
+Ken Gevon so am i
+Ken Gevon so am i
+Anthony Everhart ur mom supported my hardware...
get over yourself
@@Resengan21 Didn't support your grammar though did she. 😆
80 was the perfect year to be born. Got to see the best of it all
32MB? Those power users are crazy!
Oh the horror of that default sounds. Took me a few month of learning Windows to finally be able to remove those sounds.
So when is this O.S launching? I'm excited about this new software revolution.
2095 is the release date its even called it
***** Not me. I wasn't excited. I was still using my 1 MB Macintosh with a dot matrix printer in 1995. I didn't get a PC with Windows on it until 1998. That was one Apple and four PCs ago. BTW, I still have the 1 MB Macintosh and it still works. All the other computers (including a 64 MB iMac) all died on me.
@@ldchappell1 It's almost as if smaller components that consume more energy are more likely to be damaged by it.
Nice to see some recognition to the developers with the curtain drop for the Windows 95 launch
Those click sounds bring alot of memories. Clicking on Windows and looking up for the Heretic icon
Windows 7 was beautifully done. As the old saying goes if ain't broke don't fix it.
Now processors have more L2/L3 cache than they had RAM back then.
The CPU cache back then was probably like 0.25 bits or something
@@hexagonist23 I think even a 486 had 4 or 8K L1 cache. L2 cache, if it was there at all, was physical RAM chips on the MB next to the CPU. I forget how much there was. I wanna say 64/128/256KB L2 cache.
Remember trying Win95 first time in 96. That was beginning of new era.
What they have Windows 95 already, here I'm stuck on Windows 11.
I miss having mind-blowing, consumer-level technological innovations every few years. Compared to the '90s, things just seem incremental, and the technological innovations these days seem to be largely limited to professionals. It's been so long since I've truly been wowed by a technological innovation geared towards the average consumer.
1995: "If you're a heavy power user then you probably gonna need 32MB RAM, believe it or not!"
Interesting how the number is quoted the same today but just in GB.. 16GB is smooth but 32GB for power users.
The 2 features I liked about Windows 95 is that it ran without the need to rest on Disc Operating System (DOS), and file names were not limited to 8 characters, followed by a dot or period and a suffix.
It was an exciting time back then
I remember how windows 3.1 was used by a lot of people back then. Most of the time they worked in Dos, but for word of Excel they would first start windows (took forever) and then Word.
After the document was finished, shut down windows and continue in Dos.
Windows 95 put an end to that, and everything was done from Windows 95.
Back when clicks were still producing sounds....
Who brings in a computer to do a demo with a custom sounds scheme on?
The single biggest performance increase I remember was when I upgraded my Pentium-100 Windows 95 machine from 8 to 16 megabytes of RAM.
I really wanna see these guys on new tech today
Those brand new Intel Pentium Pro processors can run anything with its 5.5 million transistors. I am gonna buy it asap.
"don't copy that floppy" WELL GUESS WHAT I DID!!!!!
(gasp!) You don't mean-!
lol
The power of negative psychology compells you to copy that floppy! ;-)
its now 28 years since i went to the computer shop and bought my windows 95 upgrade then later the Plus add on cd ,i still have it in my collection ,just before i went to a demo of IBM OS2 warp , being shown live at my local computer shop, i had just got my first PC this had windows 3.11 and dos 6.22 installed , it was a a Pentium P90 800 meg hard drive 4 speed cd rom drive ,the good old days ,seems like yesterday
This brings back memories!
Don't Copy That Floppy 😂😂
Lol preventers from copyright it's very OP and irritating😂
I don't remember Win 95 was this fast!!, what's going on here??
I bought my first Windows 95 computer in 1997 from the manufacturer's local store. I love the various Microsoft video games (e.g. Arcade, Flight Simulator, etc.) which were good at the time.
The quality of your video is great SVHS quality I assume you may have used a canopus ADVC device. The quality looks clean and superb, well done!!!
+laughing nutter the video is from the rips on archive. org. some episodes are in worse shape and some are nearly unplayable but they came from a donation by Stewart Cheifet himself. they are broadcast tapes.
@@maboroshi1986 High Quality tapes
Windows 95 was a HUGE upgrade at the time.
This may be a dumb question but are you allowed to click on "My Computer" if it's not actually your computer?
ldchappell1
Great bait mate.
The Great Agitator When it comes to baiting I'm the master. A certified master baiter.
I think it's ok if it is owned by your parents but dont quote me. Check the manuel!
Man! People were in lines around the block for that thing.
So hardcore adverting windows browsing msn on mac using netscape
Who thought those hideous click sounds were a good idea?
7:42-7:51 Omigosh! She was playing "Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds," my first favorite Humongous Entertainment title! I still play that classic game to this day, thanks to the likes of ScummVM!
Watching this show is like time travelling
I definitely remember that Space Cadet Pinball game. I think the highest score I ever got was a little more than 6,000,000 points, but I've forgotten the exact score, I'm afraid. I never reached that high of score again since then. I miss so many things about Windows 95. That game is just one of the things I miss about it. I would kill (not literately, of course) for a Windows 95 computer again.
what happened to upgrading being this fun?
judy on point with them glasses. 14:32
Holy hell...I remember this show when it on the air....NEW! Ah the memories.
I have two Windows start keys, on both of my keyboards. That gives me extra startability.
I'm glad this video not pretending to be 1080p
I made it 9 minutes before I realized this wasn’t a hilarious spoof computer RUclips channel 🤣🤣🤣
I still run windows 95 on all my machines.
Matowix You rock!
Lol
You're lying.
Upgrade please...
6:21 Nice little audio plug for branding ;)
Windows has really been iterative since 95. Every time MS messes with the basics, it backfires.
Ahhhhhhh, 1995. When they had every action in Windows make a sound just because they could!
Reminds me of that OS/2 demo from 1994:
ruclips.net/video/mmxabyk0S2M/видео.html
I remember using W95 on a Pentium 1 @ 90Mhz with 8+16MB EDO RAM and a 1.2GB HDD in 1997: I used it to go on the web (2M cable) ^_^
lol you had 2mb net in 1997?
@@beardsntools It could have been 1 Mbit, but it was at least in the megabit range. A 28k8 modem was way too slow :-D
@@JohnStopman that was probably your company network or something. back then pretty much everyone had 56k and isdn was only just rolling out with their 128k. Consumer dsl took off in the early 2000s
@@beardsntools I had to delve into some history, and this is what I could find:
In those days (1997), I used Telekabel who offered broadband internet via cable (1.5Mbits/s), wich was upgraded to 2Mbits/s a few years later.
I distinctly remember having a downspeed of 262Kbytes/s which equals 2Mbits/s, and most likely remembered the incorrect year: it was 1999 and not 1997.
@@beardsntools Note: we payed 150,- guilders each month in those days, which is aproximately $75,- (i.e the dollar value of 1997-'99).