Windows 95 is back in your web browser — but it’s buggy and risky. Here's why.

A web‑based emulator lets you boot Windows 95 in your browser, complete with Solitaire and Paint — but it’s riddled with bugs ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Windows 95 Jingle, 1960 World Series Broadcast and Other ‘Audio Treasures’ Added to the National Recording Registry

The Windows 95 reboot chime was one of 25 audio works added to the National Recording Registry this year. Brooks Kraft LLC / Sygma via Getty Images When users turned on their computers during the ...
Hackaday

Start Me Up: What Has The Windows 95 Desktop Given Us 25 Years Later?

We’ve had something of an anniversary of late, and it’s one that will no doubt elicit a variety of reactions from our community. It’s now 25 years ago that Windows 95 was launched, the operating ...
Gizmodo

Windows 95 Startup Chime Immortalized in the Library of Congress

The boot-up chime for Microsoft Windows 95 is being preserved in the Library of Congress, the National Recording Registry announced this week. The track was produced by famed songwriter Brian Eno, who ...
Digital Spy

Windows 95 turns 20: 9.5 surprising facts including Friends stars, the Rolling Stones and 13 floppy disks

Windows 10 might be the current OS of choice for many, but 20 years ago today (August 24) the world of home computing underwent a seismic shift as Windows 95 rolled off the production lines and into ...
PC World

A modder got Windows 95 running on a Nintendo 3DS… very slowly

It’s amazing what you can do with old tech, especially if you combine it with even older software. Take the Nintendo 3DS, for example. Originally released in 2011 with a 268MHz processor, it wasn’t ...
CNET

Windows 95 turns 10

Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive editor and east coast bureau chief, serving as department editor for business technology and software covered by CNET ...