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The Library of Congress announced this year’s 25 selections to add into its National Recording Registry. Although often ...
It’s been 30 years since Windows 95 launched. [Ms-Dos5] and [Commodore Z] are celebrating with an epic exhibit at Vintage Computer Festival East 2025. They had no fewer than nine computers ...
Windows 95 is a fairly iconic piece of software in itself due to the fact that it's the first Windows 9x release, along with ...
Tracks added to the list are judged to be "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress, ...
The app spits out benchmarking scores for five things: single-core CPU performance, multi-core CPU performance, 2D graphics ...
It’s official — the sound that computers made when rebooting on Microsoft Windows 95 is now a historical sound. The jingle ...
The original music for Minecraft, alongside the reboot jingle for Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system, have been inducted ...
The boot-up chime for Microsoft Windows 95 is being preserved in the Library of Congress, the National Recording Registry ...
The US Library of Congress has added the Windows 95 boot sound to its National Recording Registry (NRR). That means the sound is now part of a list of recordings that are “culturally, historically, or ...
Windows 95: The birth of the Start menu On August 24, 1995, Microsoft introduced the Start menu as a central hub for accessing programs, documents, and system settings with the launch of Windows 95.
The recordings, along with works by Tracy Chapman, Elton John and the rock band Chicago, are among the 25 selected for ...
The Microsoft Windows 95 start-up and reboot chime was composed by Brian Eno. Among the 84 sound elements Eno created for the ...