The Control Panel
Back in the days of Windows 95, computers were not sexy. For a category of products that were so revolutionary, I spent a lot of time sitting in front of the family computer bored out of my mind. Now I have my phone for that, thank you very much.
If you were anything like me, though, there was one surefire source of entertainment: changing the desktop background. For that, you’d find yourself here, at the Control Panel. It’s a picture of just how rudimentary operating systems used to be; compare the number of options here to the menus and toggles on a modern system. Windows 95 also crashed—a lot—and you’d constantly have to tweak settings to get things to work, which made the Control Panel a frequent (and often frustrating) companion.
