Teenagers react to Windows 95, cannot imagine what their elders endured

The majority of teenagers alive today weren’t alive in the 90s, meaning the oldest version of Windows they’re likely to be familiar with is Windows XP.
If that tidbit makes you feel old, you might not want to watch the latest React video from Fine Brothers Entertainment, in which a bunch of teenagers are exposed to the wonders of mid-90s computing and Windows 95 for the first time in their lives. They’re not impressed.

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What, they're too good for Windows 3.1?
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Strangely enough, that was my reaction 24 years ago, not very impressed.

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What, they're too good for Windows 3.1?
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Yeah, I would have gone back to 94. That's 25 years ago.

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Never used it. Or any version of Windows, for longer than a few minutes.

But this is what MS should take away from this:

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I had to do work on windows 3.0 then 3.1 device. Couldn’t get to the Mac fast enough...

I used Windows 3.1 back in 1992.

I wouldn't call it an operating system since all the software that ran on it was actually DOS software.

Do the same with a Mac and the teens will exclaim that this is really fast. And using modern RAM the Mac OS (7.5?) would crash a whole lot less.

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tell them about the days when we got up to change the program on the tv, assuming the antenna was tuned properly.

My Dad never got up to change the channel, he used his multi-purpose remote. It adjusted the TV, got him a beer or snack, picked up or put away whatever he wanted, catered to his every wish.

I hated it at the time, but would so love to do it for him just once more time. Dad passed away in 1992.

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Strangely enough, that was my reaction 24 years ago, not very impressed.

The hype around Windows 95 was tremendous. When we got it at work, I checked it out, and after having heard about how it was “as good as the Mac OS now” I was really underwhelmed.

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"So this operating system on this computer in many ways changed the face of desktop computing forever."

If only we Mac users had experienced something as revolutionary…

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"So this operating system on this computer in many ways changed the face of desktop computing forever."

If only we Mac users had experienced something as revolutionary…

Yep, Win 95 was so revolutionary that MS went to an OS based on stolen IP to replace it. Windows NT and its descendants are what MS sell now. They just polished 95 up a bit to sell it as Win 98.

If they think Win95 was bad, what would they think if we showed them DOS?

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"So this operating system on this computer in many ways changed the face of desktop computing forever."

If only we Mac users had experienced something as revolutionary…

Yes, a fellow I knew who was attempting to sell medical software for the Mac (developed in Australia) characterized Win95 as "A System 7 steal." He subsequently went to work for a company selling Windows software.

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If they think Win95 was bad, what would they think if we showed them DOS?

The video shows a couple of reactions to being told about using DOS.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.