ElI5: Why was so special about Windows 95, what made it a 90s pop culture touchstone?
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it made computers available to the almost PC illiterate. Plug and Play wasnt a real thing before Win95.
Take games….in DOS when you installed a game you then had to pick all of the hardware your PC had to make it run (processor/video card/sound card). If your hardware wasnt in the preloaded choices its not like you could go on the internet and download them….the internet was still very basic. You were just shit out of luck, you would try every choice in the hopes it would work…W95 did most of that for you with the installation wizard.
i like the analogy of food, DOS was like being a farmer you could do it but it wasnt going to work for everyone. W95 was like a supermarket, while still not for 100% of people it went from 10-15% to 99%
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