Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?

Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by grayfaced on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:10PM (#26677552)

That's the gap between a computer enthusiast and average population. Most people weren't on a campus with a LAN. Many people were relying on 33.6K dial-up with metered a metered ISP, often on their phone line they needed to receive calls. For most people MP3s were just too hard to transfer.

Cheap CDRs were the other big breakthrough. Now people had a reason to download music so they could burn it to listen in their car. But that's well after Win95.

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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by crazygringo on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:42PM (#26677746)

> between a computer enthusiast and average population

Not computer enthusiasts -- just college students.

I remember being pretty surprised, it wasn't the CS students who had all the ripped music. It was the party kids. The "killer app" for MP3's was the ability to put together all-day and all-night music mixes that could be shuffled instantly. For the first time you could DJ effortlessly.

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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by rangibaby on Friday April 02, 2021 @09:32PM (#26677673)

I downloaded plenty of music on shitty dialup. It’s not like there were any other options. The hard part was finding them until Napster etc

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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by rconti on Saturday April 03, 2021 @12:39PM (#26682432)

Audiogalaxy stands out more in my mind for some reason. I never used Napster much.

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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by rangibaby on Saturday April 03, 2021 @11:40PM (#26686723)

I was a big fan of Soulseek back in the day. Everyone else I knew used Limewire

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