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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 lproven »

fx1994 wrote: post #131
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…

and tweaking 95 with nlite so it was blazing fast after stripping all useless stuff, great era

I mean, yes, true, but there wasn't much to strip out of Win95!

I know. I did it. PC Pro magazine paid me to fit it into a very early SSD, which only held 16MB.

There was only 24MB of installation files!

https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-95/rtm

It took more installed, obviously. 16MB was hard but I did it. No help, no fonts, not even Notepad, but it ran.

Nlite came into its own with Win98 and especially Win98SE. You could cut that down by half easily. No IE, for instance. I used Opera.

It is still around!

https://www.nliteos.com/

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

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Post by lproven »

digiown wrote: post #29
netsharc wrote: post #6

Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too). This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actuall…

Imagine that's the worst that happens to "your" library. Good times. We really need to bring the idea of ownership back. https://www.howtogeek.com/playstation-is-deleting-tv-shows-f... https://www.npr.org/2009/07/24/106989048/amazons-1984-deleti...

> Good times.

That, of course, being the other track on some editions of Win95's CD.

Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, "Good Times".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc

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

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Post by kej »

llm_nerd wrote: post #156
kej wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wasn't told how to interpret it, I saw an unusual picture and, where you apparently jumped the conclusion that it was two men that were obviously about to have sex and that it would be a scandalous statement on your own sexuality if anyone were to see you with that picture, I chose to look up what the explanation was. I can only imagine how much you must clutch your pearls when naval aviators play volleyball togeth…

"I wasn't told how to interpret it" Then you detail how you had to look up how to interpret this. Amazing stuff. Like, do you realize you just destroyed your own nonsense? Doing the "Duh, obviously" bit and then saying "this picture was so weird I had to be told what it meant" is quite the self-own. "where you apparently jumped the conclusion that it was two men that were obviously about to have sex " Save this boori…

No, I'm not saying "it's obviously a father and a son", I'm saying "it's not obviously sexual or gay and it's weird that you were so concerned about that interpretation that you were embarrassed about it". I didn't immediately know it was his son and represented innocence. I did immediately know that it was probably not something sexual, and I went looking for an answer instead of panicking about anyone seeing me looking at it.

For a guy who complains about reddit so much, you sure seem intent on having a deliberately obtuse reddit-style "gotcha" argument. I'm not really here for that. I hope you remain safe from phone images that scandalize you and those around you.

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

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Post by The_President »

bityard wrote: post #70

Our family's Packard Bell in 1996 came with a full-motion video game called Silent Steel. Coming from a 486, FMV video games sure felt like the future. It was pretty much Choose Your Own Adventure, but with video. You had to know the exact sequence of actions to get to a "good" ending, and apparently there were several endings. For the mid 90's, the script, acting, and sets (and CGI) were actually not half-bad. But m…

Packard Bells shipped with MegaRace which blended studio video, with main character Lance Boyle, with the game engine for a seamless experience.

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

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Post by Conan_Kudo »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #77
jhbadger wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is fairly common in warmer climes in the US like California. Rather than have a monolithic high school building with lots of wasted space for hallways they will have a bunch of smaller buildings that students go between outside. They are "campuses" in the same sense that various tech companies call their cluster of buildings a "campus".

I remember watching a TV show set in socal (Beverly Hills 90210 maybe?) in the late 80s I think? And them having high schools and even lockers outdoors just blew my mind.

The climate makes it work. I wish it was like that for my high school, but alas we just had the stifling building.

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

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Post by grougnax »

hulitu wrote: post #122
ellisd wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

UX at its finest.

But not U2 at their finest, though

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

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Post by acuozzo »

everfrustrated wrote: post #45
nicholashead wrote: post #17

This music video was the reason we decided to upgrade the CD-ROM drive on our family computer, since it could not play without stuttering on our existing one.

I think folks forget this was part of it. PC's were being sold as supporting "multimedia" and Intel was selling chips with "Multimedia extensions". Just playing a video at all was a big deal. Video was rare. You weren't downloading videos over 56k dialup (I remember leaving the modem running all night to download movie trailers from Apples Trailers website (only available in Quicktime format of course)

> You weren't downloading videos over 56k dialup

I downloaded a shit-ton of anime over 56k via CuteMX in 2000. I used to start the download before bed and then watch the episode the next day after school.

Little 12fps postage-stamp-sized RealPlayer/RealMedia video files. I still have them if you want to check them out.

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

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Post by ChrisRR »

snthpy wrote: post #121
WorkerBee28474 wrote: post #108

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> 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

> The story took another surprising turn in 1993, when Wyman's 30-year-old son from his first marriage, Stephen, married Smith's mother, Patsy, then aged 46, making Smith her own step-grandfather’s ex-wife.

Yeehaw
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