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How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by Lorkki »

to11mtm wrote: post #56
bananaflag wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My sister and I were so excited to discover this on the CD as we were clicking through every folder. This was a common experience back then, you got ahold of some new "piece of software" and you started discovering new stuff in it. My fondest memory ever is one day in February 2001 browsing through the Windows 98 Add/Remove Windows Components dialog and realizing I could install the same Desktop Themes I remembered…

I want to give a huge shout out to the UK magazine PC Format for the most absolute banger 90s magazine CD that I ever encountered. It didn't just have Demos of new games, if you poked around you'd find that it had "this cool program called Scream Tracker 3" and a whole bunch of these ".MOD files" that played music that sounded like a CD![0] [0] - Well, it was the 90s, and typical bundled multimedia speakers were so b…

At their best they had an exceptional amount of demoscene / game development content overall, as well as several full (usually "previous") versions of various creative software like 3D modeling or photo editing apps.

Later on with the Internet biting into the cover disk magazines, they started to steadily fall towards the lowest common denominator and shift to the gamer lad segment. But I wouldn't have had as much fun with computers if it wasn't for a subscription back in the day. Thanks for the reminder.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by Gravityloss »

wolvoleo wrote: post #139
taysco wrote: post #85

Microsoft went crazy with Windows 95 marketing and release. They also spent 3m (reported between 8m-15m at the time though -- which was massive for its day) on licensing Stones' Start Me Up.And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Jerks. The hype was real though. I can still remember installing the floppy version on one of my first PCs. The first start up was…

It was pretty groundbreaking tbh. Many of the UI paradigms are still used today. Windows 95 introduced the start menu and the task bar, windows 3.11 didn't have them in that form. The start menu was just an applications folder (a bit like on Mac) and the task bar was some shortcuts on what was basically the desktop. I don't think windows 3 had a registry either. It really became what we still know as windows today. O…

For working with data, I certainly like lists and trees with automated layout and dislike 2d space with human drag-and-drop layouts.

I assume most people are like this, and the start menu was a huge improvement. Most people would have been lost if it was just windows and icons freely floating in a 2d space.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by vor_ »

randall wrote: post #113
taysco wrote: post #85

Microsoft went crazy with Windows 95 marketing and release. They also spent 3m (reported between 8m-15m at the time though -- which was massive for its day) on licensing Stones' Start Me Up.And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Jerks. The hype was real though. I can still remember installing the floppy version on one of my first PCs. The first start up was…

The last 3 years of LLM progress, to me, feel like 1994-1998.

I don't know. The novelty of LLMs faded very quickly for me.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by wolvoleo »

ellisd wrote: post #60
whizzter wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it auto-played when you didn't want to. If you had Spotify running and then pressed the quick-play on your phones it would continue where it was, but after a reboot the iPhone would auto-play from Apple Music instead if Spotify hadn't been started. So tapping play on your headphones would start those damn U2 songs "by accident" because it's the only thing that was on the Apple Music accounts we aren't using..…

THIS WAS THE ISSUE 100% - every single time I rode in a car with an iPhone connected to the ICE, that damn U2 album would autoplay.

And Siri still plays it for me when it doesn't understand me because I have nothing else in my music library and it's still not possible to remove it :( :( I hate U2 and I don't have homepods to play music. But deleting it from the library just puts it back

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by taysco »

leetrout wrote: post #135
taysco wrote: post #85

Microsoft went crazy with Windows 95 marketing and release. They also spent 3m (reported between 8m-15m at the time though -- which was massive for its day) on licensing Stones' Start Me Up.And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Jerks. The hype was real though. I can still remember installing the floppy version on one of my first PCs. The first start up was…

> made lots of coasters Haha we would leave the room and avoid walking near the computer when the burner was running. Thanks for bringing back a memory :)

lol, we also did that. And we a Cyrix chip so our computer was pretty slow (but fast for the time) and you had to shut down absolutely everything, even the screensaver, that damn thing coming on is probably responsible for at least 100 coasters haha. Any sort of PC stutter and you were presented with that damn buffer underrun error message.

I was like 12 or 13 and wanted to install linux, like slackware 2.0 or some shit lol. But I didn't know about iso's, just FTP. So I was trying to download every single file from a unpacked linux distro on a ftp site with a 14.4k modem. Then I'd burn them and try to install. I think it took me nearly 500 cds before I got a working install. The install would get like 60% and die on some corrupt package/file, I'd redownload that file, burn it again, run the install... 61% crash, repeat... I did get that sucker installed though. insanity lmao

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by extraduder_ire »

vor_ wrote: post #144
randall wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The last 3 years of LLM progress, to me, feel like 1994-1998.

I don't know. The novelty of LLMs faded very quickly for me.

I think they're scaling down in novelty quicker than they're scaling up in capability.

Still easy to be surprised if you stop paying attention for a while though.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by taysco »

WorkerBee28474 wrote: post #108
taysco wrote: post #85

Microsoft went crazy with Windows 95 marketing and release. They also spent 3m (reported between 8m-15m at the time though -- which was massive for its day) on licensing Stones' Start Me Up.And they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Jerks. The hype was real though. I can still remember installing the floppy version on one of my first PCs. The first start up was…

> they actually sent some shitty live version which would have avoided paying their old bassist. Their old bassist did not make for good PR... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Smith

yikes. didn't know about any of that.

Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?

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Post by extraduder_ire »

to11mtm wrote: post #56
bananaflag wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My sister and I were so excited to discover this on the CD as we were clicking through every folder. This was a common experience back then, you got ahold of some new "piece of software" and you started discovering new stuff in it. My fondest memory ever is one day in February 2001 browsing through the Windows 98 Add/Remove Windows Components dialog and realizing I could install the same Desktop Themes I remembered…

I want to give a huge shout out to the UK magazine PC Format for the most absolute banger 90s magazine CD that I ever encountered. It didn't just have Demos of new games, if you poked around you'd find that it had "this cool program called Scream Tracker 3" and a whole bunch of these ".MOD files" that played music that sounded like a CD![0] [0] - Well, it was the 90s, and typical bundled multimedia speakers were so b…

mod files include their own samples, so they could have very easily been (close to) CD quality while still being quite small.

You only need to encode the notes you play on the instruments you use.

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