Is anybody still using Windows 95?

Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by abraxas on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @09:00PM (#24415520)

Well that and high quality video. One and only one tangible benefit of this new web is better quality video. Everything else sucks as much or worse than in the days of Altavista and punch the monkey ads.

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by nl on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @11:25PM (#24416695)

And browsers that don't crash all the time.

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by narwally on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:23AM (#24417851)

And search is good now.

But apart from the HD video, the search, the aqueducts, the roads, the education, the browsers that don't crash all the time, and the wine... what have the Romans ever done for us?

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by 1_player on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:12AM (#24419729)

> And search is good now.

I disagree. Searching for keywords is practically impossible nowadays, with all smart AI-powered™ search engines that unhelpfully return results that are not relevant to your query. And SEO spam, which has killed the niche high signal-to-noise handcrafted websites for content aggregators.

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by loulouxiv on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:12AM (#24421156)

Since 2-3 years, I saw a dramatic deterioration of search. Whenever I am looking for anything that is not very mainstream, I get pages and pages of irrelevant results / SEO hacking sites

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by nl on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:30AM (#24417899)

Oh, and XMLHttpRequest and Websockets, so we don't have to rely on META REFRESH in hidden frames...

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by tripzilch on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:27PM (#24437208)

Sorry, search used to be good, around ~15 years ago.

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by abraxas on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @08:30AM (#24420263)

I never once had a browser crash on me in the nineties.

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by anthk on Thursday September 10, 2020 @11:04AM (#24432975)

> I never once had a browser crash on me in the nineties.

IE5-6 were a crashfest.

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by btilly on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:23PM (#24422644)

I used Netscape on a Mac in the 90s.

I lost track of how many times I saw the spinning beachball of doom. The only solution for which was the power off and on again.

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by nl on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:08PM (#24428215)

Remember "popup spam" and then how enough windows would open that none would respond?

I'm guessing anyone who didn't get browser crashes in the 90s was only browsing a couple of sites or something. Certainly anything before IE5.5 was crash city - in particular Netscape 2.0!

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by int_19h on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @09:52PM (#24500322)

Chrome still crashes all the time for me - in fact, it seems to be crashing more than it used to. It's just that now the crash is isolated to a particular tab.

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by laurent123456 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @09:51AM (#24420960)

And that you can resize without the browser reloading (very slowly) the URL.

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Re:Is anybody still using Windows 95? by imwillofficial on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @07:39AM (#24419896)

I forgot about those! Hahaha good times

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