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The Windows 95 start-up sound and the Minecraft soundtrack have been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings
Tracks added to the list are judged to be "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress, ...
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Start Me Up: What Has The Windows 95 Desktop Given Us 25 Years Later?
It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating system that gave the majority of 1990s PC users their first taste of a desktop-based GUI and a 32-bit operating system.
The Windows 95 Chime Just Earned a Spot in the National Recording Registry
The 6-second start-up anthem joins “My Heart Will Go On” and the ‘Hamilton’ soundtrack as “one of the defining sounds of ...
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I've been covering Microsoft, DOS, and Windows since the 1980s, and Microsoft turning 50 is more important than you think
Apple's portable, 9-inch-screen computer was an exciting graphical leap ... GUI to not only stand on an equal footing with ...
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CrystalMark Retro 2.0.0 brings retro benchmarking to systems from Windows 95 to Windows 11
Crystal Dew World has released a major update to CrystalMark Retro 2.0.0, with its scope extended to cover Windows 95/98/Me ...
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You can now benchmark a Windows 95 PC with CrystalMark Retro
TL;DR: CrystalMark Retro 2.0, a free benchmarking tool from Crystal Dew World, now supports Windows 95, 98, and Me, after a year of development. It allows users to compare retro and modern systems.