But consumer marketing of PC technology was in its infancy Intel had just named the Pentium not long before - before that, its chips were just referred to by their model numbers, which read like the license plate on a car, not a brand name. The broader business world had started paying a lot more attention to tech just a few weeks before Windows 95 arrived, when Netscape's milestone IPO in early August of 1995 shocked everyone with its extraordinary debut, and kicked off the dot com boom to come. In those days, most job listings didn’t even yet ask for “familiarity with MS Office” (ask your parents what that meant) and the PlayStation hadn’t been released yet in the U.S.
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But software was not part of culture, and the term "apps" wouldn't come into wide usage for more than another decade. You might have had a friend who “worked in computers” (we didn’t say “work in tech” yet) or call IT for support for your printer at work. There were no smartphones, of course.īut more broadly, computers and software were basically not yet something one talked about in polite company. Less than 10% had any form of internet access - and virtually none had broadband. It was undoubtedly a technical leap forward, but its biggest, most lasting impacts are about how it changed popular culture's relationship to technology.įor context, when Windows 95 was released in August of 1995, only about 30% of American homes had any computer at all. Twenty five years ago today, Microsoft released Windows 95.
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