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by bitwize 3376 days ago
The Windows 95 hypetrain was truly something to behold. The Empire State Building lights in Windows colors, Friends castmembers appearing in a (truly lame) promotional video... Windows 95 was the release that put the phrase "operating system" on the common man's lips -- for better or worse.
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movedx 3376 days ago
I'd never heard of this "Friends castmembers" video, so I did a bit of YouTubing... I have no words (nearly an hour long, and I think there's a part-two): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGYcNcFhctc

This led me to a few other videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2owaKucyU1Y

Sigh. The 90s.

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Arizhel 3375 days ago
The 90s were really great in a lot of ways. But as you've shown, it was really awful in a few others.

I wonder if there's a parallel universe out there where Windows 95 never happened and Microsoft went out of business somehow. That would be the universe where the 90s were a truly wondrous age.

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