Windows 95
Start button debut
Windows 95 is the personal computer operating system Microsoft released in 1995, marking a major shift from its predecessor with a graphical desktop, Start menu, and taskbar that became the template for decades of Windows versions.
It introduced millions of users to consumer computing and the early internet: Remember when installing Windows 95 took twenty floppy disks?
- MicrosoftRedmond technology corporation
- desktopPrimary computer interface
- taskbarApplication shortcut strip
- PCHome computer, or tactful
- floppyLacking rigidity, bending easily
Bill Gates · dial-up · dial-up modem · Netscape · Explorer · Minesweeper · wallpaper · rolling hills · screensaver · startup · startup sound · chime · icons · shutdown · crash · blue · screen · blue screen
- Mid-90sFriends, Toy Story, ER, Braveheart, Pocahontas
- 90s Techdial-up, Netscape, AOL, ICQ, AIM
- obsolete techfloppy disk, VHS, dial-up modem, cassette tape, floppy disks
- Computing HistoryENIAC, UNIVAC, mainframe, mainframes, punch card
- Operating SystemsLinux, Unix, macOS, DOS, Debian
- retro softwareMS-DOS, WordPerfect, Norton, BASIC, Netscape Navigator
Windows 95MS-DOS
Early PC operating system
DOS · command line interface · command line · Windows 3.1 · CLI
Windows 95Windows 11
Current Microsoft desktop OS
Windows 10 · macOS · iOS · Android · cloud computing