Why Did Weezer Come with Windows? | Nostalgia Nerd
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- Win your Ultimate Work From Home Setup by entering (sponsor) Fasthosts’ Techie Test here: www.fasthosts.co.uk/nostalgia.... Windows 95 landed like no operating system. The marketing was insane. The events were insane. The hype was insane.... and it almost felt a bit insane to find Weezer's Buddy Holly music video on the CD-ROM version as well. What was it doing there? Why was it doing there?
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1:22-07:32 Pre Windows 95 Launch
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Being a home schooled shut-in, it took me well over a decade to figure out that Weezer hadn't been around since the 50s.
I didn't know who Weezer was till about 2002, but I was a shut in that watched Nick at Night and I knew they weren't in Happy Days.
Home schooled as well. However, I just thought it was part of a Happy Days episode and Weezer was a throwback band from the time. Didn't find out until later that it was all just clever editing and Weezer was current.
if it makes you feel any better i wasnt home schooled but didnt know that Happy Days wasn’t from the 50s until fairly recently
Hahahaha fucking SAME
Do you hate your parents now?
My wife has just reminded me that we had Weezer's Buddy Holly played at our wedding. I guess we owe that to... Windows 95 then.. life is weird.
I dunno, I’d ask your wife to be sure, since she seems to remember the event better than you do (wives usually do remember weddings more completely than husbands do). I could be wrong, but I don’t think most young people of the 90s were turned on to Weezer by the Windows 95 installation CD.
I very well remember when that disc arrived in my mail. My own personal reaction to it was not “wow, what a cool new song” but instead “WOW! They put Weezer’s ‘Buddy Holly’ video on here!”
I bet you guys loved Weezer even when you used Windows for Workgroups, 😜!
you may now kiss the bride!! (whats with these homies dissing my girl)
Wow I was talking about this with my sister. I sent her Weezer" buddy holly" and she was like, "remember the demo disk that came with our win 95' hp pc?! Lol I could talk for hours about what was on that disk
There was a capture the flag game on it. There was also a disk that presented a different userface than windows 95. You could link books on a shelf in a virtual library to link a program that you would like to launch.
I was about to ask if you played that fun FPS but I forgot that’s what hover was lol I loved 90s
@@GetLostGames1 The capture the flag game was "Hover" and the different user interface sounds like Microsoft "Bob"
the reason why Weezer came with windows 95 is to make us sad 90s kids feel old...
@@olik136 you are the only one that got it right. Ugh.
I remember "Like Humans Do" by David Byrne being on Windows XP.
yep, only in RTM / WMP8 and removed in SP1 / WMP9 for some reason.
Windows Server 2003 had No Hay Problema by Pink Martini as the 'title.wma' or OOBE background music, but as Server 2003 never had any OOBE then it falls unused
I looked this up the second I started this video.
I remember that, excellent! Also Beck's Beautiful Way in WM7... but just a 20-second snippet or so, bummer... In Windows Vista there was The Posies' Love Comes. All in all, it must be said that they made excellent music choices... Even going back to canyon.mid!
Also Standin' in the Rain by Lil Dave Thompson and Dynamite Walls by Hayden (one of my all time favorite songs)
As a teenager in the mid 90s, THIS WAS THE COOLEST THING.
I discovered this by accident when I was like, 16. Always wondered about it.
Same here. Saved up forever to get 4MB of ram to run it. Goodtimes
@@samsungtelevision695 Woah man 4 megabytes? What are you doing here with us peasants?
I came across it many times.
When you were "like" 16? You were 15 or 17, but it was actually like you were 16?
When I was a bench tech in 96-98, weezer was one of my tests to make sure the video looked good.
Yep, playing Weezer as a video and audio test was standard procedure at the shops I worked at back then when we built or upgraded computer. You'd hear it at least several times a day.
Same here, although I switched to the other video after a while.
Yup! I used those videos to see how well (or if) a PC could play video. Most of them at the time were pretty bad at it.
Wild, I was a bench tech from 97-00 and I would use those videos of the CD to test systems that were having CD reading problems.
When in doubt, weezer.avi
I remember when I found this myself back in the day, I thought I had found a huge secret or something. I was so proud of myself. I also remember not being too surprised that it was there because the 90's were just kind of awesome like that.
Wow, didn't expected a much deeper reason than a contract for promotion and money.
Putting it hidden in the CD was a much better solution than throwing it at the face of everyone like Apple and U2 did years later.
They weren't exactly hiding it. They wanted you to learn how to use Windows Explorer. They told you to check out the CD for fun stuff.
@@ZipplyZane My younger sisters and I just used the Windows 95 PC to decorate our own virtual rooms with Microsoft Bob. Never would have found this thing
It wasn't hidden.....
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 And that last part is why I guess some people consider it "hidden." It does seem odd to us today that they would not have made a huge deal on the autoplay about it.
But, as I said, I think they wanted to encourage people to use the new Windows Explorer.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 I didn't mean having it automatically play as soon as you put the disc in. I just meant listing it on the popup that autoplays.
Instead, if I remember correctly, there was a link to explore the disc. When you did, you'd see a bunch of boring files, but also a folder called FUNSTUFF.
And so, being curious, you'd click on it, and find games, videos, etc.
90s Windows marketing has been my pet obsession lately, it was such a crazy thing, with so many fond memories attached to it as a young burgeoning computer nerd.
Windows Me FTW!
Crazy?
@@reinforcedpenisstem Absolutely. Windows 95's launch and marketing changed the game.
I remember being so blown away when I found this video on a Win95 CD, and until today I had forgotten all about Hover.
Now imagine having a PC so crap it couldn't run Hover at full speed.
Me too!
I played the fuck outta that game
Let's not forget about Robroy also ;)
I still remember when my dad loaded up windows 95 on our old computer.. It could barely run the video till he upgraded it again. That was my introduction to Weezer at 9 years old and that is still one of my favorite albums of all time... I miss those days... Dad coming home with new computer parts and stuff every few months because the tech progressed so fast. Now I wait years for over priced and under performing hardware and be forced to smile about it because there's no other choice....
I wonder what the next “internet” will be. The next big thing that advances all the time during our lifetime.
If you read the minimum system requirements for Windows 95 that described my computer at the time. It ran 95, but it was the slowest computer I've ever dealt with until some of the ones we have at work now.
@@hunterlong1820 I actually chatted with my mate about this, what is going to be the next "revolution" of this decade. We had :
1980s : Home computer revolution
1990s : Internet revolution
2000s : Wireless revolution
2010s : Smartphone revolution
2020s : ???
My mate theorized that this time it might be blockchain and NFTs, but who am I to predict that, we're still early in the decade
@@rogehmarbi I think it will be AI.
@@rogehmarbi good breakdown of the decades I agree
Reminds me of when every iPhone had some U2 album on it by default and it was impossible to get rid of lol
in 2014
@@RWL2012 so a century ago already?
@@carso1500 pretty much
I don’t use iTunes or Apple Music so the only music on my phone is U2 and everytime I get in my car that album comes on lol.
I just ran into this issue today. I was playing my music on shuffle when all the sudden I heard some really wussy music I’d never put on my phone. Oh yeah, it was U2. Well fuck you too, U2! 👎
Man, this was really nostalgic. I was 14 when I got Windows 95 and I played that video over and over. It was actually my introduction to Weezer. I played the Rob Roy trailer that came with Windows 95 a lot too. I had zero interest in watching that movie but it was so exciting and novel to have videos playing on my computer that it didn't even matter. Great video. The whole thing really took me back.
I want to know more about Windows Beer. It sounds better than Apple Kool-Aid.
Yeah I immediately searched eBay for a can 😅 ...no results yet....
Yeah, but once you drink that Apple koolaid, you can’t use other brands
So the best comment.
Like Windows, it kinda left a bad taste in your mouth
Here we are 26 years later and I am just now learning for the first time that Weezer was put into an episode of Happy Days, rather than the video just being a realistic mockup of a 1970s television show. How widespread was this knowledge? How did I never learn this, as a huge nerd of the era who absolutely would have relished telling people this kind of trivia? Weird. Maybe people who had actually seen Happy Days treated this as common knowledge
Happy Days was a wildly successful show. Most people would have recognized it... problem is, most people watching MTV were not old enough to have watched Happy Days. I didn't realize it was an episode of the show until years later.
@@ronindebeatrice We didn't knew about Happy Days because it never aired in our country. I only knew that it featured newfangled digital techniques similar to the blockbusters of that time.
I was selling computers then, and it was amazing to see full-screened video of that quality (HighPerf) playing on some of the better PCs we had for sale. Was useful for showing the difference a processor and videocard could make for video playback, and that included Hover game.
Thanks for the dive into the subject. I was always curious.
I still remember watching both music videos quite a few times as I could not believe I had a machine that could play them at will without inserting any kind of media. They were just there. They were good tunes as well, so that was a bonus :)
Kids will never know of waiting for the all clear signal to actually power off your pc.
or using the command Park C:
Shutdown -H now - UNIX had power management decades ago!
The lowercase -h is for halt, as in stop, and would park discs, and -H forces shutdown with no further prompting, but does still park the discs!
@@RedPillRachel Yeah, cool story bro.
I got the "Windows - *It is* now safe to turn off your computer." screen on XP on a Pentium II until I found the "fast shutdown" option in BIOS.
I'm amazed you got 24 minutes of solid CZcams out of Weezer on Windows. Good stuff.
i thought i had a pirate version of 95 when i found this
I've still got that Win95 beta CD that first came with the Weezer video. I had been asked to beta test their PowerStation Fortran (some silly name like that for their Fortran compiler) app, which required official current Win95 beta to run - but hadn't been on the Win95 official beta tester program (although I *cough* maybe had been running various betas for over a year already *cough*). I sent them an e-mail and promptly received the beta tester kit - woot.
My first PC I used it on could play the video but some frames skipped due to the CD-ROM buffer not being quite large enough. It was the perfect sample file to include to test out to see if somebody's machine could handle multimedia, back in the era where you often bought a CD-ROM and sound card bundle kit (IDE based drives were out by then I think, but tons of legacy Creative hardware used a controller on the sound card, and not all had the same performance).
Ohhh, yeah. Trying to play those through an ISA multi-IO card that only supported PIO-1 IDE speed. Or how about the early 4x CD-ROM drives that just could not slow down when connected to an early IDE controller? They'd rev up to top speed, toss a huge slug of data then drop to idle while the controller tried to pass the data through, then the transfer would timeout and stop.
@@greggv8 yeah that was an interesting era for sure - I had built myself a Cyrix or AMD box which was equivalent to a mid range Pentium but even then, trying to burn CD-ROMs was always an interesting experience. I had a lot more RAM than most users realize you could even have (I had 192 MB in one box in that era when the typical user had 32 or less) which definitely helped, but we (college neighbors and I) were the proud owners of a Yamaha quad speed burner; this when single speed burners were still shockingly rare, we ubergeeks said screw it and got the pro model. At the time, blank discs were $12 a pop, although they went down to $8 a pop by the end of the school year. This is why we kept those early coasters, as we had an investment in them - they were the reminder of what happens when the write buffer runs empty mid-burn; and something that luckily quickly became a thing of the past - however for that time, when you wanted to burn a disc, it was common to shut down all sorts of Windoze services, antivirus and anything that could possibly want to write to the hard disk at the wrong time. :P
Loved this video! I was soooooooo excited for WIndows 95 when it came out, so seeing the disc and box and the videos was so awesome! Thank you!
That was a really good episode. I love the feel of nostalgia nerd content. Educational, interesting and calming!
I remember being so hype as a kid for Win95. I wish I still had that excitement today when a new OS dropped! Awesome video as always, man!
Awwww man, this was my introduction to Weezer. The nostalgia hitting me hard...
I will never be able to unsee that DOS 5 video. Thanks for that! :)
An amazing video, as always. Keep up the great work!
The "Good Times" video was more synonymous with Win 95 to me for some reason.
I think that was the only video on my Win 95 PC - I don't remember Weezer being on it. Maybe I was too young and my dad kept listening to Good Times over and over? Or maybe in Poland they didn't have the license for it.
Me too, I think that this video has the upgrade CD while a lot of other people "borrowed" the Win-95 full copy which had Good Times.
Ahh i remember...Such memories of finding this and having no clue what it was aged 12. Thinking it was just an actual old music video from happy days. I had no clue who weezer were at the time.
That video instantly transports me back to my grandparent's house, sitting in my grandpa's office, on a wooden chair, just playing with and exploring everything on that new PC he got. Like, I even remember the smell of the warm plastic from the tower, the lighting, everything. I love it. :)
Your videos are so well researched and presented. Channels like this have made youtube so awesome to watch.
When I was younger I wouldn't question why things are like they are. Weezer on my Win95 install CD. Meh, that's just how it is...
Now you point it out, it's very strange and intriguing.
24mins just flew by, very entertaining, thank you!
I remember playing the Edie Brickell video "Good times" a lot myself. Always loved that song.
On the OSR 2 CD, the standard AVI files were removed, it only has the highperf ones. But, it includes the two music videos in MPEG-1 VCD format too. I had a 486 PC that could only play the MPEG files as a slideshow.
Aren't avi way bigger than mpeg1? 486 can play 320 res vcds?
@@rustymixer2886 Yes they're bigger because they're not compressed as much. So less CPU power is needed to decompress and play them.
@@steeviebops so were they avi or mpeg1 vcd?
@@rustymixer2886 I just checked again. Only the Edie Brickell video is in the highperf folder on the OSR 2.1 CD. Both are in MPEG in VCD format.
@@steeviebops awesome thx ! Wow vcd format 1995
I remember getting our first windows pc and finding this video. I thought it was dope. Fast forward 15 years or so my girlfriend and I was on a Weezer cruise. This cruise was very cool by the way. But I’ve told my girlfriend a few times of my first experience with Weezer was on my first Windows PC. She’s obsessed with Weezer, that’s why we were on the cruise. Halfway through the cruise they had a Q&A on the top deck and this subject came up. They told the story and it filled the hole that I didn’t know I had burning inside me.
Your video of course provided the details on Microsoft’s side that I didn’t know till now.
Love your channel!!! Keep it up!!!
Good job on the video, looks like a whole lot of work was put into it!
how awesome since this was a sample clip back in the day.
Having already been a huge Weezer fan and a fan of computers when I first found this on Windows 95 it was mind blowing. Always wondered why it was on there. Played it over and over as I no longer had to wait for MTV to play it... Actually MTV played it constantly.
Very well done video, good pace and interesting facts.
I tested so many audio problems with that video. great video once again.
I still remember going with my dad to a school classroom for a preview show of windows 95 before it came out and how incredible it all seemed to us
15 minutes in, and 2 different plugs for some spammy “sponsor”, the weezer song was put on the OS because they wanted to show off the trendy and fun new operating system that plays videos and stuff
That's literally every other CZcamsr in a nutshell and for me, I just skip the plugins for "sponsors" after being heard a billion and one times.
Thanks, this was a real slow poke video!
You're very welcome!
That really grates me. Non skippable ads when you have paid for CZcams premium. Creators should be docked premium revenue for this.
I really loved this video and the rainy day windshield wiper one.
"And please, try the fish".
'That's not so good, Al'.
Yea, yea, yea...
I thought I was the only person who had this until just now. I think about it constantly.
I was there when win95 came out. I had been writing games for popular systems like the Vic2- and the IBM PC. The joke about Plug and Play was that we called it "Plug and pray". Because it worked about a third of the time. Good reporting!
Lol, I remember the phrase Plug and Pray! And then my mom would turn it into a racist Chinese joke... Smh.
History episodes, That's definitely you at your best. Really enjoyed this.
This completely ruined my childhood idea that it was on there as Bill Gates really liked it and wanted to share it.
Glad to finally know the real story!
I think all of the developers actually liked it, they basically all wore glasses hence the Buddy Holly reference.
hey, we dont know his musical taste
I remember that I rather used my Amiga 2000 and 1200 for a long time since PC's back then was so far behind on many levels. I could not grasp why I would have to buy a separate graphics card and sound card in order to get somewhat halfdecent graphics or sound. With the Amiga we already had all that, we had a really great GUI and a function to put programs into and execute from RAM. That was awesome. 😃
You have your timeline a little out. Windows 95 wasn't really "internet ready" out of the box, since you had to buy the Plus! add-on pack to enable that. It only came built into the OS with later versions. I was working at a computer shop just after the Windows 95 release and we used the Weezer video to test the audio and video on newly built PCs.
Yeah, but it was quite common early on for the Plus! pack to be integrated in, especially on new computers. He does at least mention the Internet Explorer required the Plus! pack.
Yes, I was amazed to find that video on my computer. I watched it over and over again.
i remember that some times when i felt exhausted and tired from life, i started the video in the little window, and it was so smoothing to see that computers can now play video, so bright future has finally come :)
I love the Closed Captioning. Thumbs up.
Definitely. I use them often for "child is asleep/do not want to disturb child" reasons and there are lots of videos I cannot even really watch under those circumstances
I remember getting my first sound card and playing it amazing 😍
I've wanted to know the answer to this since the 90s. Thank you so much!
This was the first time I'd ever seen live video on a computer before. We had upgraded our Tandy 1000 to an Acer w/ the 75mhz Pentium and it came (a couple months later) with the Windows 95 disks. Still remember that moment.
I miss those days, that's when computers were fun.
Computers Haven't been fun for a long time now.. at least since 15 years now.
The 90's were peak humanity. The world died on 9/11
I worked in a small computer store when Win95 launched and we had this on loop all day every day for weeks.
I remember this - it was very grainy when you made it fullscreen. Still, I was amazed that I could stream it across the work's LAN
Used to look in in every cd we had because I'd find some pretty cool stuff left over like small games or videos,
Never occurred to me to look inside the windows 95 disc, that would've been a real treat to find the stuff you mentioned
I love those little voice-overs when quoting someone ;)
The skill of my patrons never ceases to astound me.
Mr. Nerd, do u even comprehend what kind of nostalgic feelings I'm getting watching ALL the extra footage you included even so far as the commercial with the stars from Friends and the MTV VMA acceptance for Weezer's Buddy Holly???! LOVED IT!!! THANKS!!!
-Sincerely,
Just and old man in his early 40s who lived the 90s as a teen and wish he could go back and relive them again 😫
This was the first video i had ever seen on a pc. I was very impressed and was playing it all over again
This is one of my favorite songs of all time.I remember this being on my uncle's computer back in the day and thought he downloaded it. I'm excited to learn about this.
Yeah Windows 95 was definitely considered ground breaking at the time. There's a reason that the UI it started has been iterated on for other versions of Windows to this day.
Sure, Apple had some of the stuff, but not all of it. In particular, it didn't have the hierarchical Start Menu or taskbar. It didn't make it automatic to put shortcuts on the desktop.
And, most importantly, it didn't have proper multitasking. Everything still ran in the same memory space, meaning a problem with a single program would take down the whole system. System 7 still used cooperative multitasking used in Windows 3.1, where the programs had to be designed to let other apps work.
yep and windows can't remove the start menu now, everyone is so used to it. win3.1 gui was so chunky. desktop was the other thing, having a place you could just dump everything.
You are on a roll this week!
Weezer was the only good thing to come with Windows.
Thanks for the video. The mouse over the on CD-Rom videos at various points still produced the same reaction as it does for me today. I physically want to move my mouse off the screen. I think there are only two kinds of people in the world. Ones like me, and ones like you and my mom that are perfectly content with seeing the mouse cursor in the middle of the screen the entire time and think "This is fine".
I have Weezer's "Buddy Holly" (self-titled album) and Edie Brickell's "Good Times" ( _Picture Perfect Morning_ ) on my Win 95 CD, which I still have around somewhere. (1:01) I forgot about _Rob Roy._
Multimedia kits and promos were still a thing then. Good times, indeed.
Tbh the free promo VHS would be the most effective i mean we used to be so content starved with 3-5 tv channels that I'd watch an advertisment VHS at least 20 times... Good luck using the internet paid by the minute back then though... The internet was still pretty much a rich men toy back then.
Both my parents worked for a university in the comp center so we had internet provided by the school. Most of my friends were also university brats so for us the internet was common. Academia was the second place the internet stopped after the DOD and had been there for decades. People forget how instrumental universities and colleges were in the history of the internet. Much of the content on the internet at the time was academic list serves.
Yeah, I'd jump out of my chair to record a music video I liked on the VCR when they would come on, crazy to think about things we love not being available "on demand" back then.
we had internet
@@jimmyschmidt14 Only wealthy folks had internet or even computers in 1995. Also, you couldn't stream videos and mpg didn't even exist until 1998.
I got one for the Nintendo 64 which I watched so many times so I know exactly what you mean!
Some of us used GEOS long before windows on our Commodore 64.
BASIC programming for the Atari 2600 had windows that could be minimized and switched between
I was a teenager when Win 95 launched, and a huge computer nerd. It was so exciting. I don't know if I've ever been through a product launch since that carried that kind of energy. I had been reading about it in PC World and PC Computing for months, and had a beta copy I downloaded from a BBS. I definitely navigated all around the CD, found the Fun Stuff folder, and clips therein.
A friend of mine came over and we watched the Rob Roy trailer, and went out and rented it that night. Good movie!
I remember being a bit sad to see the Windows 3.x aesthetic retire when '95 came out.
Thanks for sharing. 😎👌🏼
Oh man, I remember stumbling on these on my friend's dad's PC in the living room. It was summer of 96 and we were looking up Sailor Moon stuff. He heard the video playing and got pissed because he thought we somehow managed to download something of that size back then! I showed him where they were located and he was like, "Oh...ok then" and went back to smoking his bowl. Good times.
Bowl of crack? :3
@CZcams Is a Joke Hey, whats up with the racism? I am white and I would love to smoke some crack...
Im smoking a bowl right now and and nothing wrong with a little crack every once in awhile.
This felt like old school Nostalgia Nerd. Loved it.
Peter is old school even in the new school. He’s the Leader of the Old School. Rrrrrah rrrrrah like a dungeon dragon. 🐉
Both were great. I loved the Wheezer one for the video and loved the Edie Brickell one for the music.
I used to work at a parts-repair/testing place way back in the day. We used to use a Win95 CD and the weezer video as a test file for test CD Drives. I've heard the first 20 seconds of this video THOUSANDS of times! Crazy times.
I’ve actually always wondered about this.
I remember how the videos were viewable on Windows 3.1 prior to running the upgrade to 95.
I was super impressed with the video quality.
I played that music video so much! Video on PC seemed magical on the mid 90's
Because Weezer is awesome? Suppose I better watch the video really.
Pretty amazing to realize I was already using icons and such from 1985 onwards with the Amiga. :) The only time I used a command-line was on the beloved 8-bit computers. And yes, cyber-cafe's, those were such fun... when the Internet was still... just fun and interesting. Man, such a shame we live in a time where tech is awesome, yet all the comm things suck big time.
Same on Atari :)
Just bought your book from Amazon enjoying reading it.
i spent so many hours browsing the Win95 CD. There was some Game Demos and Videos on it too. lol i still remember the over the top AD for Monster Truck madness.
"You make a grown man cry" My experience of Windows 95
I remember playing this countless times on my first windows 95 pc :)
Holy shit this hit me in the nostalgia bone hard! I remember watching this video over and over when I was a kid
I hadn't thought of this in years. I never understood why that was there, but it seemed cool.
Heh, “ a 3 minute song would take as little as 10 minutes to download…. “. I. Remember that. Horrible
Ten minutes, or an hour. You never know.
Several years earlier I had to wait 10 mins to download a colour photo of Samantha Fox. LOL! It downloaded 1 horizontal line of pixels at a time. It was probably a 1200 baud modem back then, about 150 bytes per second or 9KB per minute. Talk about anticipation!
I remember early limewire files. Want to watch a 240p movie? Just give it 3 days and maybe it will download without a million errors.
Crazy days, convincing your parents not to use the phone while you "legally" downloaded music. For me it was like 15 minutes per song. Video was insane, I remember watching the Phantom Menace trailer, playing the same few seconds over and over again as it took an age to download the whole thing.
@@T.O.A.D.U.K I remember terrible quality RealMedia and QuickTime files taking over a day to download just one. I think we were able to use our phone and internet at the same time. I don’t remember how.
If you run this at 1.5x speed, the speech pace is much more pleasant. The answer to the question starts around 13:00 but is answered at 15:50
I remember this launch well. I was living in Everett Washington finishing my radiography externship. At the time AOL was my internet provider.
I was the computer geek as a teen into the early 90's. I remember the CN Tower in Toronto, ON, Canada having a massive Windows 95 Banner on it. Geeky young me was so excited to get it installed...
I like Weezer a hell of a lot more than I like U2. Thanks for that by the way Apple.
Hey, I became a Weezer fan because of that Win95 video and had purchased all their albums. I wouldn’t have been exposed to their tunes otherwise.
Always wondered why and how ... Thank you
I just watched this Weezer video a few weeks ago. Glad you posted this video.
I was in love with Edie Brickell back then. Paul Simon is a very lucky man.
Wait. I just realised that they sold it as "Microsoft MS-DOS". When it should just be... Microsoft DOS... Right? Or just... MS-DOS.
What the hell.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 The branding came many years before DR-DOS came on the scene. The original deal to supply the OS for the IBM PC branded as PC-DOS. Microsoft retained the right to sell the nearly identical MS-DOS. IBM believed this wasn't worth all that much because the copyrighted BIOS of the PC was critical to having software run as is. This worked for a while. Machines like the TI Pro and the Tandy 2000 ran MS-DOS but needed software specific to them. A developer could use most of the code that went into an IBM PC version but whether a particular machine merited the work for its own version of a program, especially when this meant sinking capital into manufacturing the separate discs, and dealing with the hassles of maintaining multiple versions.
These machines were often a fair bit nicer than the IBM PC, especially in the area of graphics. But that also meant getting the most out of them meant a lot of extra work as opposed to a port done in less than a week. So, while those machine brought in a lot of revenue for Microsoft, they didn't get much of the market. When Compaq legally cloned the PC BIOS to make machines that ran off the shelf IBM PC software, followed by a clone BIOS becoming available for anyone looking to make IBM PC compatible systems, that changed the game entirely. (Compaq wasn't the first to market but they were the one who got the most stuff right, both in the BIOS and other aspects like marketing, so they became the big name in IBM clones.) It was at that point IBM regretted not paying Microsoft more and taking full ownership of PC-DOS, including derivative versions.
Digital Research lost out on the original base OS for the IBM PC because Dorothy Kildall, the wife of founder Gary Kildall and a savvy attorney, looked at the contract IBM proposed and came back with a long list of objections and changes. IBM thought they were taking advantage of Microsoft's comparative youth and hunger, even though Gates didn't lack for serious legal advice either, as his father was fairly well known in the WA law business. The real difference was the perception of where small computers were heading as a business and that it was worthwhile to make some sacrifice initially to get an advantageous position. It went against the grain for DR, who were then a big fish in the small pond of microcomputers, to put up with IBM's snobbery.
Usually when you install Windows 3.0, 3.1, or 3.11 for Networks, it put the Windows sub-folder into the path statement in the the autoexc.bat file. The copy of Windows 3.11 for Networks Install disks that I had asked me if I wanted to start Windows at boot time.
One of my favorite things I like to do these days is challenging friends to see if they can get things done quicker using a keyboard then they can using a mouse. Most of the time I can.
In 1989, I had my first Internet connection prior to that my favorite thing to do was use BBSes. I ran one on a Northstar Horizon for about 12 years. In 1993 I started working for an ISP. I did house calls if we couldn't get it to work. Part of my compensation was 128 kbs ISDN line. It was stable also had Lynx (text based web browser) installed as part the BBS so my users could also use the Web.
I talk about this and very few folks remember. I love this guy's videos. As a former nerd it brings back memories of my youth....a perfectly named channel