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Let's complete the effect shall we?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4

Dial it down to 240p for the true '95 experience.

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This was the first video I ever watched on a computer. I will never forget staring at this, realizing that I was seeing the future.

Wow, this video and the game are bringing back memories. This is the first experience with a computer I can remember. I didn't really realize what I was doing at the time, I would have been 2 or 3. Thankfully my dad cared enough about computers to have one for the family, that early experience probably contributed to my passion for software today.

>This is the first experience with a computer I can remember. I didn't really realize what I was doing at the time, I would have been 2 or 3.

Whereupon I am confronted head on by the relentless progression of aging and mortality.

I'll admit, I started programming young, about 8 years old (probably not too atypical in this forum though). The other day I realized, the new hires here were born after I started programming. I now better understand how a couple friends in college, non-traditional students who came back after stints in the military and other career attempts, felt.

Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc

That's the one.

Let me get my old CD-ROM and have it sound like a jet engine too.

Don't forget Gorillas http://www.kongregate.com/games/moly/gorillas-bas

Forgot about that. Was on the windows 95 CD somewhere. Remember watching it at work on a new Compaq DeskPro after complaining that they ripped the task bar off RISCOS.

Didn't work on NT4 which i had at the time :(

don't forget this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SAN0Llw2p0

the irony is 3.1 looks more modern (flat) now than 95

My '95 CD had the Rob Roy trailer on it too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0-2kzujLA8

Ahhh, memories!!!

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