Dan Church was a young boy, just 6 or 7 years old, when he first discovered the game “Hover” on the Windows 95 CD-ROM. A combination of capture the flag and bumper cars, the program was his first ...

The name “Windows 95” was revealed to the public only a short time before the operating system’s launch, which we were told was going to be a massive event. Through an insanely overwrought but ...

Because we are talking about installing Win 95 and the CD-ROM was attached to the sound card, there should be an install program that is used to set up the CD-ROM drive. Check the "drivers" files that ...

It might be news to many of today’s selfie-snapping, hashtag-happy millennials, but Windows 95 was a huge deal. I’ll never forget the day my dad came home from CompUSA with that blue, cloud-covered ...

Microsoft this morning released a remake of the classic game “Hover” for the web. Hover originally debuted on the Windows 95 CD-ROM, and in a fun twist, the new version includes an Easter Egg that ...

CATCH 95, the pretzel logic that occasionally trips up users of America’s best-selling operating system, continues to blossom in unexpected ways. One of the least amusing involves the question of what ...

Twenty years ago this week, Microsoft introduced its Windows 95 operating system on CD-ROM. One of the legacies of the operating system was its dreamy startup music, composed by legendary producer ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Windows 95 launched 20 years ago today, on August 24, 1995. Back then, the Internet was just ...

It only takes about 10 minutes to step two decades into the past, at a time when music was MIDIs and BMPs where images. Windows 95 has been necro'd, once again, and you can now run in on Chrome, ...

When Microsoft's Windows 95 was released a staggering 18-years-ago, I considered it to be exciting. While I was only 12-years-old, I had quite a bit of experience up to that point with Windows 3.x, ...

It was 20 years ago Monday that Bill Gates stood in front of a crowd at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington headquarters and unveiled Windows 95. The iconic operating system introduced the world to the ...

Like a lot of people who cover technology I got my start in the IT world and became incredibly critical of it. In the 90s it was fairly terrible: Most workers had to be trained on how to use a ...