For a long time, personal computers were nothing more than a cube and a screen with a line with green text. People figured out a lot of cool things to do with that green text, but reminding ourselves of this historical fact helps to explain why Windows 95 was so damn mind-blowing.
With all due respect to all who came before, this operating system was really the first time users could get down on a graphical user interface (GUI) at home, not to mention the insane innovation of the Start button. This was the moment when it became clear that personal computers were going to become really, really big.
In part, it felt that way because of the enormous marketing campaign put behind its release, with some $200 million in advertising, including millions just to secure the rights to use "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones to promote the new Start button.
Windows 95 also included the mind-blowing ability to watch a preinstalled music video right there on your computer, assuming you bothered to find it. Which video was it?
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The answer is: Buddy Holly. Remember when everyone went crazy because Apple automatically put that U2 album onto your phone? Turns out Microsoft pulled that same exact stunt around a decade earlier, only no one either noticed or cared.If you were curious enough to explore the not-at-all suspiciously named “Fun Stuff” folder that came with the Windows 95 install CD, you would find not one, but two music videos already installed. One was for Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” and the other for Edie Brickell’s “Good Times”. Source
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