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The Windows 95 Startup Sound

Did you know that the Windows 95 startup sound was composed by avant-garde electronic musician Brian Eno? I had no idea until I saw it referenced on music thing. Eno describes the process in a 1996 San Francisco Chronicle interview: Q: How did you come to compose “The Microsoft Sound?

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Revenge of Codename: Snowball

What would the world be like if Windows 95 and Windows NT has been cancelled? You’d be surfing the web right now in Windows for Workgroups 3.11: I absolutely love the fact that we get a javascript error on the Google homepage. Not unreasonable, considering WFW 3.11