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Windows 95 Itself

Screenshot: YouTube
Screenshot: YouTube

Despite some of the more shudder-worthy moments of the keynote, we have to offer a little credit to Windows 95 for where we are now in computing. So much of what we consider a modern desktop experience was contained within this early version of Microsoft’s operating system. You can witness folks in the presentation laud some of the most simplistic computer abilities we take for granted in this day and age. The internet was slow as hell, you used to have to physically tether computers to transfer files, and running more than four applications crashed your system. Well, I guess that last one is still true today if one of the applications is Chrome.