Hackernews posts about Windows 95

Windows 95 is a popular operating system released by Microsoft in 1995 that introduced significant improvements to the Windows series, including a user-friendly interface and support for multimedia features.

1. The port of the Windows 95 Start Menu was not all it seemed (www.theregister.com)
   51 points by CppPro 4 days ago | 50 comments
2. Why did Windows 95 use blue screen error messages instead of hard error messages (devblogs.microsoft.com)
   30 points by Tomte 16 days ago | 10 comments
3. What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
   8 points by segasaturn 10 days ago | 2 comments
4. Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux (github.com)
   358 points by acqbu about 1 year ago | 217 comments
5. Windows Update Restored: Fix Windows update on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, and XP (windowsupdaterestored.com)
   306 points by gslin about 1 year ago | 175 comments
6. Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity, other games (arstechnica.com)
   303 points by fagnerbrack over 1 year ago | 186 comments
7. DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility easier, but with higher stakes (devblogs.microsoft.com)
   253 points by zdw about 1 year ago | 96 comments
8. 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video] (www.youtube.com)
   232 points by hexadec over 1 year ago | 264 comments
9. Designing Windows 95’s User Interface (2018) (socket3.wordpress.com)
   228 points by cpeterso almost 2 years ago | 173 comments
10. I Still Use Windows 95 (2008) (web.archive.org)
    184 points by zdw over 1 year ago | 308 comments
11. Rust hello world app for Windows 95, cross-compiled from Linux, no MSVC (hails.org)
    168 points by sohkamyung over 1 year ago | 105 comments
12. I ported thousands of apps to Windows 95 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    143 points by lonk 5 months ago | 25 comments
13. Windows 95 tips, tricks, and tweaks (2013) (windows95tips.com)
    135 points by ndsipa_pomu about 1 year ago | 24 comments
14. Show HN: React95 – A React components library recreating the look of Windows 95 (github.com)
    122 points by hatf0 about 1 year ago | 42 comments
15. The History of Windows 95 (www.abortretry.fail)
    113 points by alexzeitler about 1 year ago | 87 comments
16. Remake of the Windows 95 Solitaire game (github.com)
    106 points by ctippett 5 months ago | 55 comments
17. 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key [video] (www.youtube.com)
    104 points by susam over 1 year ago | 1 comments
18. Screenshots from Windows 95 (guidebookgallery.org)
    94 points by xeonmc 11 months ago | 84 comments
19. Delta City '95 – Complete pack of official updates for Microsoft Windows 95 (deltacity.stare.pro)
    92 points by Lammy 5 months ago | 30 comments
20. Reproducing the printer hack of Windows 95 (dpolakovic.space)
    89 points by dpola 5 months ago | 46 comments
21. Windows 95, 20 July 1992 build (betawiki.net)
    60 points by Use 2 months ago | 6 comments
22. Show HN: Rust9x 1.76-beta – Rust on Windows 95+ (seri.tools)
    53 points by seritools 9 months ago | 7 comments
23. To Learn About the Voice Modem Extensions for Windows 95, Press 1 Now (1996) (web.archive.org)
    47 points by dcminter almost 2 years ago | 6 comments
24. Windows 95 had dedicated code to run Sim City (www.pcgamer.com)
    43 points by wunderbaba almost 2 years ago | 17 comments
25. I ported apps to Windows 95 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    26 points by chii 5 months ago | 5 comments
26. Show HN: My personal website designed in the style of Windows 95 (kaibelmo.vercel.app)
    14 points by kai_belmo over 1 year ago | 7 comments
27. Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95 (www.theregister.com)
    14 points by hggh 4 months ago | 2 comments
28. Microsoft Windows 95: Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry [video] (www.youtube.com)
    12 points by dxbydt 11 months ago | 9 comments
29. Show HN: Windows 95 style modern CRUD app (github.com)
    11 points by firatcan almost 2 years ago | discuss
30. Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity, other games (arstechnica.com)
    10 points by bubblehack3r almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
31. YouTuber use ChatGPT to Generating Windows 95 Keys (www.tomshardware.com)
    9 points by MasterYoda over 1 year ago | 21 comments
32. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer – Windows 95 Launch Dance [video] (www.youtube.com)
    9 points by vinnyglennon about 1 year ago | 7 comments
33. Backport of .NET 2.0 – 3.5 to Windows 95 (github.com)
    9 points by jandeboevrie 5 months ago | 2 comments