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 ...

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 ...

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An unexpected way to relive the nostalgia of Windows 95 on Linux, but the experience comes with its own set of challenges.

The National Recording Registry announced its 2025 inductees, and there are some geeky sounds that will be immortalized in the Library of Congress. The Microsoft Windows 95 reboot chime was selected ...

Every so often, Microsoft design director Diego Baca boots up an old computer so he can play around with Windows 95 again. Baca has made a hobby of assembling old PCs with new-in-box vintage parts, ...

Alrighty, so I'm fixing up my aunt's computer which still has Windows 95a on it. It's a Compaq. The first thing she told me to do was to "make it faster". So, aside from uninstalling various pieces of ...

What just happened? Sounds from Microsoft and Minecraft were among the 25 recordings recently inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress based on their historical, ...

The 1990s are remembered as the start of a technological revolution and the beginning of the digital era with the recent birth of the internet and the mass adoption of personal home computers. Fast ...