The Library of Congress announced this year’s 25 selections to add into its National Recording Registry. Although often ...

New entrants are added “based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage” ...

The app spits out benchmarking scores for five things: single-core CPU performance, multi-core CPU performance, 2D graphics ...

The boot-up chime for Microsoft Windows 95 is being preserved in the Library of Congress, the National Recording Registry ...

Dos5] and [Commodore Z] are celebrating with an epic exhibit at Vintage Computer Festival East 2025. They had no fewer than ...

Windows 95 became popular very quickly. Windows 95 improved networking and added long file names and Plug and Play, the latter a welcome relief for users. Memory limitations, plaguing users in ...

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 Microsoft Windows 95 start-up and reboot chime was composed by Brian Eno. Among the 84 sound elements Eno created for the project, the now-familiar six-second ...

It introduced 'Plug and Play' for easily adding new hardware, a task bar, the iconic Start button, and a 32-bit subsystem (up ...

Introduced during the reign of Windows 3.1 and two years before Windows 95 ... Windows with a new, colorful user interface that was far superior to Windows 2.0. Although the PC still booted ...

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.