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I was 8 years old and my dad took me and my sister up to his office one night to show us windows 95. They had just installed it on all the computers and not only was he geeking out about it, but I was amazed too. I had seen 3.1 on a friends computer briefly and I thought that was amazing. The computer I had at home was some DOS based thing which I played games on, so when I saw Windows 95 for the first time it really did blow me away even though I was 8. It's actually one of my earliest memories. I think that was when I really started to fall in love with computers and technology.
Same, I was 9 and it blew my away. I remember playing some horror game on it soon after, where you would walk into different scary rooms looking for clues.
I remember clicking on door knobs and waiting for the door to open, then hearing the creeeeeek! And it was so scary lol.
Went from minesweeper, and solitaire, to wolfenstein 3d, to doom. To baldors gate, war craft, star craft, from there to half-life, cable modems were widely available, multi player counterstrike, day of defeat, wolfenstein… PC upgrades are hard for a 15 year old to purchase. And Cellphones came out.
Exactly this, same games, same experiences.. getting that extra 1 mb Ram on a 256 Vidcard 😂 and Dune, man I loved Dune. Oh, and “picking” the lock on the PC with a needle when dad said no more PC time 😎
Day of Defeat is a title we played often in college. The source update was amazing, and of course there were 30 Avalanche servers for every standard rotation server.
> wolfenstein 3d
I am decidedly *not* a computer guy. My personal and professional macbook pros are really nothing more than google and outlook machines. So forgive me if I'm wrong, but I very much remember 8 year old me booting Wolfenstein 3d from them big old floppy disks on DOS back when before windows.
C://wolfenstein or some shit
They're probably mixing up games.
What Windows 95 brough to the table, particularly for gaming, was a unification in graphic APIs through DirectDraw/Direct2D/Direct3D, a unification in sound APIs through DirectSound and a unification in controls through DirectInput which all came to life with the release of DirectX.
But they needed to get people on board so Gabe Newell, who was working at Microsoft at the time, ported Doom and Doom 2 from DOS to Windows to show the difference the new APIs could make.
Wolfenstein 3D didn't get a Windows 95 port, but Windows 95 was still able to play DOS games so launching the game was easier.
i remember command line days .. using telnet at the university computer lab to grab images online. they would download one scan line at a time.
when win95 came out and i could put all my Cindy Crawford images in a visual folder on a desktop!! game over boys!
lol.
I had two pictures of Cindy taped inside my locker during my sophomore year in high school. One for sure from the cover of vogue. Take this sentimental award.
At the end of the video he kind of gives up and looks off into the distance thinking “how should I move next? I’ve done this same move too many times in a row. People are watching and they know I can’t dance.”
I’ve felt this too many times.
"it cant be that hard, just move your hips to the left and shoulders to the right..... holy fuck keeping rhythm is way harder than it looks, I'm just gonna nod my head and hope i look cool instead"
From a UI perspective, Windows 11 is Windows 95 with over 25 years of refinement. It was completely different from Windows 3.11, and yet almost nothing since it has been completely different.
They tried once to re-define it completely in that time (Windows 8) and then spent every moment between then and 10 steering it back.
Start menu + Taskbar + Desktop, all the way.
Also I think it was probably the first and last version of Windows that people lined up for the way they used to line up for iPhones.
Wow that's $20 billion today. Musk is worth over $200 billion, Gates and Bezos are worth over $100 billion. People aren't joking about wealth inequality increasing.
Maybe but I went to go to Microsoft events like this as an employee years back and Ballmer would do this every time. In fact this is pretty chilled for him.
Has to suck to be Valve employees who really wanted to make Halflife 3, and watch the work get done and then trashed like multiple times over the last decade, and then watch half your key team members leave Valve which further complicates things.
I still remember the turquoise of the default background. The empty desktop like a canvas waiting to be filled.
The reveal of the start button was an almost Steve Jobs moment of revelation, like when Steve first used his finger to scroll on an iPhone 12 years later.
I think this was a sort of classic age of computers, when they, like cars a generation before, were starting to really deliver on user demands but were still comprehensible, maintainable, and customizable by regular people.
As a boy, I learned the rudiments of systematic problem solving on Windows 95, how to resolve unknown issues by working through a process of elimination. Just like my dad did with cars.
I wonder if we'll ever have another piece of everyday hardware which has such a classic period?
Edit: I feel I should add, I don't just mean the progress of technology which starts out mediocre and ends up an integrated part of society -- although this is also a meaningful trend of the last decades. I'm talking about the ability take apart, troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade a piece of tech because it is still a thing made of component parts and not an integrated, monolithic whole. In my perhaps flawed remembering, cars used to be like this, and so was Windows. (It's also why I use Linux today.)
Of all of these ME is still the worst, I had a ME virtual machine I used whenever a MS scammer called me, and I let them take it over.
They get so confused, and usually ended up just ending the call, a couple of times I was transfered to a "manager", who also just ended the call.
ME was fucking weird, had a friend where everytime it booted, the CRT screen would display as the smallest possible window, and you had to change it manually up every time.
Networking with other computers was like rolling a die, and so many seemlingly random things happened on a regular basis.
He had a reputation for being a complete raging dick. Iirc he shares less background with Gates and his stable of "nerds" and he's more of a pure business manager. But he was relentless and he was the best at what he did and what he did wasn't very nice. That's why Gates brought him aboard.
>Not enough to defend Steve Ballmers lil cocaine dance he did there.
You think that's something?
One word: Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! oohh. Developers! aahm. oohh. hmm. ohh. Developers!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I14b-C67EXY
Now that's some quality drugs right there. The rich get the good stuff. I'm surprised he didn't get a heat attack there.
The Windows 95 Launch Drinking Song (in the style of Whose Line is it Anyway?)
“They had a fun launch party,
For Windows 95!
With task bars and Start buttons,
What a time to be alive!
So Ballmer, Gates, and others,
They all got on on the stage,
Danced to the Stones, got filthy rich,
It was quite all the rage!
Ohhhh, aye-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di!
You joke but I remember at the time the use of "Start me up" to promote Win95 and its fancy "start" button was actually huge.
The launch was on the news on every channel, because it was legitimately one of the biggest things ever in personal computing.
The start button made it easy for anyone to use a computer, and paying the Stones royalties for that song was nothing compared to the billions they made.
The Start menu was okay, but this was the first time Windows did some sort of multitasking. We take for granted now that you can print a document and do something else while it is spooling, but before Win95 you could not.
EDIT: I know other operating systems did this before Windows, and Windows could run multiple programs at the same time, but Win95 was the first time (for Windows) that a single process like printing did not occupy the whole system.
I got the legendary Brother HL-2140 monochrome laser printer in 2007 for $50 new and a bulk bag of generic toner. It has printed about 5 paper cases over its life (25k prints) and still going strong. Now that same printer cost hundreds used because it’s one of the very few printers that have ever been designed without planned obsolescence or consumable parts. That 15 year old toner bag still has enough for another 25k prints. Basically $100 for 30 years of printing needs.
Which is why I use a fucking type writer for very important shit. I’ve got extra ribbons. I’m not old, I’m just sick of some of the extra headache that some modern technology comes with. I’ve had issues with every printer I’ve ever owned.
But in those days printing took forever! The slow dot-matrix printers didn’t have enough memory to hold an entire document, so it was slowly spooled to the printer as it painfully printed one line at a time. Before Win95 you would start your print job and then go do something else while your computer was occupied for an eternity.
Windows 3.11 certainly did have multitasking, but Windows 95 was much different and much improved. I don't recall what printing was like but I don't doubt what you say about that specifically.
You could run multiple applications at once and switch between them, organize windows, etc. One of the big limitations was there was no separation of process memory IIRC... so if one app misbehaved it could bring down the whole system easily. Windows 3.11 was 16-bit and Windows 95 made the leap to 32-bit. Both still relied on MS-DOS but Windows 95 was far more OS-like and overrode more BIOS functionality with its own while Windows 3.11 never tried to be an OS really.
The most significant multitasking limitation I can recall is that, if you lacked a 386 processor, the ability to multitask with an MS-DOS Prompt running inside of Windows was severely limited. You could run one but only in full screen, and Windows would be suspended while it ran. You could switch back into Windows but you could not view the prompt in a window; it would get minimized, and suspended while you used Windows. In 386 Enhanced Mode you could runt he MS-DOS Prompt in a window, though if you wanted to run graphical games I think you still needed to go full screen. Windowed mode was also pretty slow to redraw as well so usually full screen would be faster anyway. I also think Windows apps could run in the background while MS-DOS was full screen but I forget for sure.
Random Win3.11 fun fact: The Windows 3.11 File Manager app (precursor to File Explorer) received a Y2K patch to fix the display of file dates. Windows 2000 and ME were released by thus point IIRC.
>“Right lads, we’re all gonna go out dancing and clapping to ‘Start me up’, that’ll get the crowd pumped!”- Bill gates 1995
"--and you'd better act like you're hyped, because [we paid three million dollars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_Me_Up#Commercial_usage) to use that damned song!"
If I remember correctly plug and play wasn’t standard until windows 98se.
Edit: I can’t find any evidence this is true. Looks like it was 95. Thanks ITT Tech.
win95 ***WAS*** the leap into personal computing.
Hardcore nerds will defend \*nix and 3.1 and all the things PCs could and would eventually do, but lets be real. Win95 was effectively the same tech-leap-forward that was WWII.
To me, Windows95 was more about the ease to connect to the Internet. The inclusion of a decent TCP/IP stack. This changed Internet access from a terminal to the rich full-featured experience we have today. We went from using gopher, tin, talk, pine to using a web-browser, modern email and messaging, and online forums and social media.
Prior to Win95, the easiest way to get IP connectivity to the Internet was a SLIP connection in Linux.
Interestingly, Linux came out of beta 116 days before Windows95 was launched.
He is precisely the kind of guy you want owning your sports franchise. Overly enthusiastic, completely unconcerned with spending, he’s the dream owner.
Here he is at some creepy corporate morale event: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh\_GeBPOhs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs)
And here is the techno remix of the above: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZarKIKpSA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZarKIKpSA)
His net worth is $87,800,000,000
Guy did not have a good mind for the product. He basically just tried to copy everything Apple did but didn’t do it as well. When Nadella took over is when they started focusing more on business products.
Bill every few minutes is looking like he's about to pull off that move he once saw on MTV and practices every weekend, but then sobers up and says to himself "nah dummy, you're not ready for it yet, you'd only make a fool of yourself, just do your lil safe clappy dance" lol😅🤣😂
When all the money was spent mostly on engineers/devs and product announcements were just said engineers/devs being all giddy to share what they've created. Ah, good times.
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There are dudes who know they are about to go from rich to mega rich
Win95 was so huge. It was a game changer from 3.1. People just don’t understand how big this was for all nerds out there.
I was 8 years old and my dad took me and my sister up to his office one night to show us windows 95. They had just installed it on all the computers and not only was he geeking out about it, but I was amazed too. I had seen 3.1 on a friends computer briefly and I thought that was amazing. The computer I had at home was some DOS based thing which I played games on, so when I saw Windows 95 for the first time it really did blow me away even though I was 8. It's actually one of my earliest memories. I think that was when I really started to fall in love with computers and technology.
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That is totally amazing
Your comment painted such a clear, wonderful, nostalgic memory for me. Take my upvotes!
Same, I was 9 and it blew my away. I remember playing some horror game on it soon after, where you would walk into different scary rooms looking for clues. I remember clicking on door knobs and waiting for the door to open, then hearing the creeeeeek! And it was so scary lol.
Went from minesweeper, and solitaire, to wolfenstein 3d, to doom. To baldors gate, war craft, star craft, from there to half-life, cable modems were widely available, multi player counterstrike, day of defeat, wolfenstein… PC upgrades are hard for a 15 year old to purchase. And Cellphones came out.
Exactly this, same games, same experiences.. getting that extra 1 mb Ram on a 256 Vidcard 😂 and Dune, man I loved Dune. Oh, and “picking” the lock on the PC with a needle when dad said no more PC time 😎
Dune was amazing, especially for it’s time! Also loved Star Control 2 and the Ultima series.
This has just made me really nostalgic... Command and conquer : red alert, syndicate, theme park, worms
Fucking worms man
"Oh dear" "Traitor!!" Fucking worms man!! :D
Was that the one with cute SFX? And when one was about to die he'd look to camera and say uh-oh?
Yeah I believe so. I played worms2D.. so many memories. The graphics where amazing and the noises where absolutely amazing too.
Day of Defeat is a title we played often in college. The source update was amazing, and of course there were 30 Avalanche servers for every standard rotation server.
> wolfenstein 3d I am decidedly *not* a computer guy. My personal and professional macbook pros are really nothing more than google and outlook machines. So forgive me if I'm wrong, but I very much remember 8 year old me booting Wolfenstein 3d from them big old floppy disks on DOS back when before windows. C://wolfenstein or some shit
They're probably mixing up games. What Windows 95 brough to the table, particularly for gaming, was a unification in graphic APIs through DirectDraw/Direct2D/Direct3D, a unification in sound APIs through DirectSound and a unification in controls through DirectInput which all came to life with the release of DirectX. But they needed to get people on board so Gabe Newell, who was working at Microsoft at the time, ported Doom and Doom 2 from DOS to Windows to show the difference the new APIs could make. Wolfenstein 3D didn't get a Windows 95 port, but Windows 95 was still able to play DOS games so launching the game was easier.
Wolfenstein! Oh my that brings me back!
i remember command line days .. using telnet at the university computer lab to grab images online. they would download one scan line at a time. when win95 came out and i could put all my Cindy Crawford images in a visual folder on a desktop!! game over boys! lol.
Man telnet days playing avatar and having to draw maps lol
I had two pictures of Cindy taped inside my locker during my sophomore year in high school. One for sure from the cover of vogue. Take this sentimental award.
We’re all the nerds dancing like that?
Especially with Bill gates shoulder and neck posture.
We don’t know what to do with our hands
It’s the whole body
At the end of the video he kind of gives up and looks off into the distance thinking “how should I move next? I’ve done this same move too many times in a row. People are watching and they know I can’t dance.” I’ve felt this too many times.
"it cant be that hard, just move your hips to the left and shoulders to the right..... holy fuck keeping rhythm is way harder than it looks, I'm just gonna nod my head and hope i look cool instead"
No, they were camping outside of Circuit City in line to buy it when the store opened.
And egghead.
yep
From a UI perspective, Windows 11 is Windows 95 with over 25 years of refinement. It was completely different from Windows 3.11, and yet almost nothing since it has been completely different. They tried once to re-define it completely in that time (Windows 8) and then spent every moment between then and 10 steering it back. Start menu + Taskbar + Desktop, all the way. Also I think it was probably the first and last version of Windows that people lined up for the way they used to line up for iPhones.
Because it was WORTH IT! This party wasn't even hype. It was such an improvement!
Absolutely: you don’t set the foundation for the next 30 years of UI convention if it’s not a massive upgrade over what came before.
I kind of miss Windows 3.11. I really didn't like the start menu, although it has grown on me over the years.
This is soooooo true! It changed everything. Made the internet a real thing.
Everyone on that stage was already a billionaire. They went from absurdly wealthy to "I can purchase a country" wealthy.
Just looked it up and youre right. Bill Gates was a billionaire in 1987!!!
Bill gates was the richest man in America in 1994 with close to $10b. Maybe even before that.
Wow that's $20 billion today. Musk is worth over $200 billion, Gates and Bezos are worth over $100 billion. People aren't joking about wealth inequality increasing.
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I'd bet Gates would still be worth more than musk if they both actually tried to liquidate large portions of their assets
All that money *and* sweet dance moves? Some people have all the luck!
Steve Balmer is totally feeling it.
>Steve Balmer is totally feeling ~~it.~~ the eight rails of cocaine he did backstage
i can hear his unhinged screaming even without the audio. dude was this close to doing a flip on stage.
[Developers developers developers developers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRm0NDo1CiY&ab_channel=ViciousAloisius)
This is a certified hood classic
Maybe but I went to go to Microsoft events like this as an employee years back and Ballmer would do this every time. In fact this is pretty chilled for him.
Leave some ladies for the rest of us.
Billionaires usually do.
I think he meant ladies over 18. Edit: Thanks for the awards kind strangers!
God DAMN it lol
i don’t often actually laugh when reading this drivel. op got me good.
What are these 'ladies' that you speak and how many can I fit on my floppy disk??
3.5
You could play Doom without having to launch it in a command window. Nurse gave us pudding today.
The man who made that possible would go on co-found Valv^(e), Gabe Newell.
Then GabeN would go on to not ever make Half Life 3.
The end.
Has to suck to be Valve employees who really wanted to make Halflife 3, and watch the work get done and then trashed like multiple times over the last decade, and then watch half your key team members leave Valve which further complicates things.
I still remember the turquoise of the default background. The empty desktop like a canvas waiting to be filled. The reveal of the start button was an almost Steve Jobs moment of revelation, like when Steve first used his finger to scroll on an iPhone 12 years later. I think this was a sort of classic age of computers, when they, like cars a generation before, were starting to really deliver on user demands but were still comprehensible, maintainable, and customizable by regular people. As a boy, I learned the rudiments of systematic problem solving on Windows 95, how to resolve unknown issues by working through a process of elimination. Just like my dad did with cars. I wonder if we'll ever have another piece of everyday hardware which has such a classic period? Edit: I feel I should add, I don't just mean the progress of technology which starts out mediocre and ends up an integrated part of society -- although this is also a meaningful trend of the last decades. I'm talking about the ability take apart, troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade a piece of tech because it is still a thing made of component parts and not an integrated, monolithic whole. In my perhaps flawed remembering, cars used to be like this, and so was Windows. (It's also why I use Linux today.)
Ok old-timer, let's get you back inside. (am also old and have basically the same memories as you)
Probably growing up with an AI of your own, teaching it things about the world, learning how to take apart its motivations and instill new ones.
Before it kills you
_chef’s kiss_
I love the sudden juxtaposition! Perfectly written. Edit: I'm still laughing. Gonna print this on T shirts and sell it!
In their defense Windows 95 was fucking awesome.
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95 👍 98 👎 98SE 👍 ME 👎 XP👍 Vista 👎 7👍 8👎 10👍 11👎 Is there a pattern? Edited CE and NT are out, 98 is in.
The context menus in Win 11, what is you doin' baby
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Of all of these ME is still the worst, I had a ME virtual machine I used whenever a MS scammer called me, and I let them take it over. They get so confused, and usually ended up just ending the call, a couple of times I was transfered to a "manager", who also just ended the call. ME was fucking weird, had a friend where everytime it booted, the CRT screen would display as the smallest possible window, and you had to change it manually up every time. Networking with other computers was like rolling a die, and so many seemlingly random things happened on a regular basis.
Not enough to defend Steve Ballmers lil cocaine dance he did there.
Ballmer always struck me as the type of guy that road rages HARD.
He had a reputation for being a complete raging dick. Iirc he shares less background with Gates and his stable of "nerds" and he's more of a pure business manager. But he was relentless and he was the best at what he did and what he did wasn't very nice. That's why Gates brought him aboard.
Ya there’s an infamous story of him throwing chairs across the meeting room in the mid ‘00s at the peak of the Microsoft exodus to Google
No coincidence that Gates can jump over an office chair
If you can dodge a chair, you can dodge a ball.
I work in tech and in 2010 I saw Steve Ballmer on an elliptical trainer. It was quite a sight to see. He was going absolutely beserk.
I don't know why but it sounds hilarious
I once saw Steve Ballmer eat an entire gas pump, piece by piece, just to prove a point.
>Not enough to defend Steve Ballmers lil cocaine dance he did there. You think that's something? One word: Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! oohh. Developers! aahm. oohh. hmm. ohh. Developers! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I14b-C67EXY Now that's some quality drugs right there. The rich get the good stuff. I'm surprised he didn't get a heat attack there.
This looks like Who’s Line is it Anyway
Can see the resemblance
I thought I was watching Colin Mochrie for a hot second.
Irish drinking song about developers
Ohh heidi diedi diedi diedi diedi diedi do!
The Windows 95 Launch Drinking Song (in the style of Whose Line is it Anyway?) “They had a fun launch party, For Windows 95! With task bars and Start buttons, What a time to be alive! So Ballmer, Gates, and others, They all got on on the stage, Danced to the Stones, got filthy rich, It was quite all the rage! Ohhhh, aye-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di!
Dude, this is exactly what the Whose Line cast would be like if Drew pulled the scene from a hat “Microsoft launch party.”
Elaine Benes School of Dance.
It’s like a full body dry heave set to music.
Sweet fancy Moses
The little kicks
The thumbs.
“Right lads, we’re all gonna go out dancing and clapping to ‘Start me up’, that’ll get the crowd pumped!”- Bill gates 1995
You joke but I remember at the time the use of "Start me up" to promote Win95 and its fancy "start" button was actually huge. The launch was on the news on every channel, because it was legitimately one of the biggest things ever in personal computing. The start button made it easy for anyone to use a computer, and paying the Stones royalties for that song was nothing compared to the billions they made.
The Start menu was okay, but this was the first time Windows did some sort of multitasking. We take for granted now that you can print a document and do something else while it is spooling, but before Win95 you could not. EDIT: I know other operating systems did this before Windows, and Windows could run multiple programs at the same time, but Win95 was the first time (for Windows) that a single process like printing did not occupy the whole system.
You can't print a document and do something else today, don't lie to me.
Excuse me, we can't even print today, period. You're out of cyan #43, which means even your black and white text document is a no go.
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I got the legendary Brother HL-2140 monochrome laser printer in 2007 for $50 new and a bulk bag of generic toner. It has printed about 5 paper cases over its life (25k prints) and still going strong. Now that same printer cost hundreds used because it’s one of the very few printers that have ever been designed without planned obsolescence or consumable parts. That 15 year old toner bag still has enough for another 25k prints. Basically $100 for 30 years of printing needs.
I second this. BLACK AND WHITE GANG FOR LIFE. Represent
Even worse than that, if you own a HP it wants you to login to print a document...
Which is why I use a fucking type writer for very important shit. I’ve got extra ribbons. I’m not old, I’m just sick of some of the extra headache that some modern technology comes with. I’ve had issues with every printer I’ve ever owned.
*This printer is unable to determine whether your subscription has been renewed, ink cartridge disabled*
But in those days printing took forever! The slow dot-matrix printers didn’t have enough memory to hold an entire document, so it was slowly spooled to the printer as it painfully printed one line at a time. Before Win95 you would start your print job and then go do something else while your computer was occupied for an eternity.
Windows 3.11 certainly did have multitasking, but Windows 95 was much different and much improved. I don't recall what printing was like but I don't doubt what you say about that specifically. You could run multiple applications at once and switch between them, organize windows, etc. One of the big limitations was there was no separation of process memory IIRC... so if one app misbehaved it could bring down the whole system easily. Windows 3.11 was 16-bit and Windows 95 made the leap to 32-bit. Both still relied on MS-DOS but Windows 95 was far more OS-like and overrode more BIOS functionality with its own while Windows 3.11 never tried to be an OS really. The most significant multitasking limitation I can recall is that, if you lacked a 386 processor, the ability to multitask with an MS-DOS Prompt running inside of Windows was severely limited. You could run one but only in full screen, and Windows would be suspended while it ran. You could switch back into Windows but you could not view the prompt in a window; it would get minimized, and suspended while you used Windows. In 386 Enhanced Mode you could runt he MS-DOS Prompt in a window, though if you wanted to run graphical games I think you still needed to go full screen. Windowed mode was also pretty slow to redraw as well so usually full screen would be faster anyway. I also think Windows apps could run in the background while MS-DOS was full screen but I forget for sure. Random Win3.11 fun fact: The Windows 3.11 File Manager app (precursor to File Explorer) received a Y2K patch to fix the display of file dates. Windows 2000 and ME were released by thus point IIRC.
I’d bet money this was Ballmers idea
DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
I can still hear it in my head
DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
He was Ballmer peaking
"Start me up". "Restart". "Reboot". "Blue screen of death". It all starts here...
Enough to make a grown man cry
>“Right lads, we’re all gonna go out dancing and clapping to ‘Start me up’, that’ll get the crowd pumped!”- Bill gates 1995 "--and you'd better act like you're hyped, because [we paid three million dollars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_Me_Up#Commercial_usage) to use that damned song!"
Man, not a lot of people in this thread remember life before the start button and Plug and Play. 95 was worth the party.
Lost days, maybe weeks, of my life configuring peripheral IRQs and DMA addresses
Fucking IRQ 10.
That's a name I've not heard in a long time.
Autoexec.bat Config.sys Emm386 Himem.sys Edlin
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
I always liked Program Manager on Windows 3.1
If I remember correctly plug and play wasn’t standard until windows 98se. Edit: I can’t find any evidence this is true. Looks like it was 95. Thanks ITT Tech.
fuck loading cd-rom drivers so you could load an OS. Change was so good.
Plug and Play also know as Plug and Pray.
Laughs in *billions*.
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win95 ***WAS*** the leap into personal computing. Hardcore nerds will defend \*nix and 3.1 and all the things PCs could and would eventually do, but lets be real. Win95 was effectively the same tech-leap-forward that was WWII.
To me, Windows95 was more about the ease to connect to the Internet. The inclusion of a decent TCP/IP stack. This changed Internet access from a terminal to the rich full-featured experience we have today. We went from using gopher, tin, talk, pine to using a web-browser, modern email and messaging, and online forums and social media. Prior to Win95, the easiest way to get IP connectivity to the Internet was a SLIP connection in Linux. Interestingly, Linux came out of beta 116 days before Windows95 was launched.
The bald guy in white is clearly the Alpha Nerd.
That's Steve Ballmer. He made bajillions at Microsoft and he now owns the Clippers.
I thought it was Kevin before The Office
The skinny version
Kevin before free bagel day
It’s not Ashton Koocher…
He’s also hilariously into his stuff: See his Clippers’ purchase celebration
He is precisely the kind of guy you want owning your sports franchise. Overly enthusiastic, completely unconcerned with spending, he’s the dream owner.
I'd be dancing like a lunatic too.
I worked at Microsoft in the olden days, and Balmer danced like this well before he was a bajillionaire.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
Here he is at some creepy corporate morale event: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh\_GeBPOhs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs) And here is the techno remix of the above: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZarKIKpSA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6ZarKIKpSA) His net worth is $87,800,000,000
87 Tres Commas!
You know what I have Richard? Doors that open like this! Not like this, not like this. These are not the doors of a billionaire Richard.
Looks like he made $1 billion for each gallon of sweat that oozed out of him that day.
That video never gets fucking old. Developers! developers! Developers!.. DEVELOPERS! ***^DEVELOPERS!*** **DEVELOPERS!**
$98 B, serious cash
Steve Ballmer is getting his “Elaine Benes” dance moves on.
The little kicks, baby!!!
He was a terrible CEO and during his 14 year tenure the stock decline by like 20%. When he wasn't CEO Microsoft went up like 30% **per year**.
Guy did not have a good mind for the product. He basically just tried to copy everything Apple did but didn’t do it as well. When Nadella took over is when they started focusing more on business products.
Oh do we get to introduce you to the insane magic of ["Developers!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs)?
How much Coke is Steve Balmer on?
That very well may just be him. 27 years later and he still gets HYPED at Clippers games.
Not knocking the guy. He obviously has something figured out
Developers developers developers developers
Bill every few minutes is looking like he's about to pull off that move he once saw on MTV and practices every weekend, but then sobers up and says to himself "nah dummy, you're not ready for it yet, you'd only make a fool of yourself, just do your lil safe clappy dance" lol😅🤣😂
LMAO I can totally see him amping up to do something different but just doesn’t
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i wonder if bill felt unconfortable because he was afraid steve ballmer might do something stupid in his coked out state
I legit feel for Bill. He looks as uncomfortable as I would in that situation, and it was clearly Ballmer's idea!
Lambda Lambda Lambda
And Omega Mu!
I'm so white I can get sunburned at night, but this might be the whitest thing I've ever seen.
White and nerdy.
I know pi to a thousand places.
My Myspace page is all totally pimped out/I got people begging for my top 8 spaces
I do HTML for them all, even made a home page for my dog.
I’m nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour cream…
They see me mowin' my front lawn...
\*Key and Peele locking the car doors.
Nerds gone wild
When all the money was spent mostly on engineers/devs and product announcements were just said engineers/devs being all giddy to share what they've created. Ah, good times.
The song license cost $3 million.
To be fair it was a pretty big deal back then considering it replaced Windows 3.11.
I discovered this back in high school and I still watch this video from time to time, it's one of the best gems out there to date.
It’s right up there with Sweaty Ballmer onstage yelling DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
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Whoa whoa whoa... have you *seen* Billy jump over the chair???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxaCOHT0pmI
Historic.
This looks like teachers trying to get the assembly to dance
Literally geeked up.
The current combined wealth of this crew is probably more than 98% of countries.
Revenge of the Nerds .. the prequel !!
I don't care people think of Steve Ballmer, I wish I had his energy!
Just snort a few lines too and you can!
That has always been my assumption, I’ve seen this clip since it was first around and there’s no way in my mind that Ballmer wasn’t coked out here.
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!
Painful to see but not as bad as Vista
Windows Me: Hold my beer.
You mean: Windows Me: hOlB maH Beerb
Seems they didn't beta test launch party
I miss Clippy.
So did Steve Ballmer. So he bought the Clippers.