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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 wil421 »

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…

I don’t remember U2 being a gift being ready to download. It was automatically put on all my devices in iTunes. I think it’s still there but I use Spotify instead of iPods and iTunes.

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

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

llm_nerd wrote: post #21
kej wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... It's a father trying to protect his son from the world's dangers. Not every picture of two men is sexual.

... It's a shirtless man hugging the waist of another shirtless man. The cover art doesn't even have any text on it, but instead is just a picture of a couple of shirtless dudes in an incredibly weird pose. Yeah, I'm sure lots of fathers find themselves in scenes just like this. Totes normal. "Not every picture of two men is sexual." Yes, no shit. Of course on HN someone would try this morally righteous horseshit, es…

In this vastly unlikely passive aggressive hypothetical scenario, you're imagining that a random person who might see your screen would be as triggered by the image as you were. Most people had figured out by then that two men together are no more offensive or evil than a man and a woman.

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

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Post by ploxiln »

JCattheATM wrote: post #27
1123581321 wrote: post #12

Always enjoy Raymond Chen's musings. My sister and I were so excited to discover this on the CD as we were clicking through every folder. Awesome song that kicked off a love of the blue album, Pinkerton and the green album. (I had off-campus lunch privileges, so was sent to Borders to pick up copies of the green album on release day.) We'd heard of Happy Days, but we didn't know if the show was like it was portrayed…

> I had off-campus lunch privileges, so was sent to Borders to pick up copies of the green album on release day. What kind of college doesn't allow students to leave for lunch? Lord.

High school ... 20+ years ago probably

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

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Post by panzagl »

JCattheATM wrote: post #27
1123581321 wrote: post #12

Always enjoy Raymond Chen's musings. My sister and I were so excited to discover this on the CD as we were clicking through every folder. Awesome song that kicked off a love of the blue album, Pinkerton and the green album. (I had off-campus lunch privileges, so was sent to Borders to pick up copies of the green album on release day.) We'd heard of Happy Days, but we didn't know if the show was like it was portrayed…

> I had off-campus lunch privileges, so was sent to Borders to pick up copies of the green album on release day. What kind of college doesn't allow students to leave for lunch? Lord.

Probably a US high school, where off-campus lunch is usually reserved for older students.

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

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Post by agumonkey »

wk_end wrote: post #15
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…

The perception was: my iTunes library is mine , and it's invasive for Apple to put something in there without my permission. Whereas: the Windows 95 CD is Microsoft's, Microsoft is free to put what they want on there. I bet most people who weren't nerds or curious kids never even found it!

Totally. Windows CD was a gift box to explore, nothing in it was intrusive.

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

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Post by JCattheATM »

ploxiln wrote: post #33
JCattheATM wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I had off-campus lunch privileges, so was sent to Borders to pick up copies of the green album on release day. What kind of college doesn't allow students to leave for lunch? Lord.

High school ... 20+ years ago probably

That's fine...never heard high school grounds referred to as a campus before so assumed college.

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

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Post by JCattheATM »

panzagl wrote: post #34
JCattheATM wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I had off-campus lunch privileges, so was sent to Borders to pick up copies of the green album on release day. What kind of college doesn't allow students to leave for lunch? Lord.

Probably a US high school, where off-campus lunch is usually reserved for older students.

That's fine...never heard high school grounds referred to as a campus before so assumed college.

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

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Post by bananaflag »

1123581321 wrote: post #12

Always enjoy Raymond Chen's musings. My sister and I were so excited to discover this on the CD as we were clicking through every folder. Awesome song that kicked off a love of the blue album, Pinkerton and the green album. (I had off-campus lunch privileges, so was sent to Borders to pick up copies of the green album on release day.) We'd heard of Happy Days, but we didn't know if the show was like it was portrayed…

> 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 from like 1996 from my friend who had been lucky enough to have Plus! for Windows 95 (which had, years before, disappeared from his computer in that endless virus/reinstall cycle that characterized those times). Next day I showed the themes to said friend and we were speechless.

It was this promise of endless discovery that made me want to study CS.

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 #21
kej wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... It's a father trying to protect his son from the world's dangers. Not every picture of two men is sexual.

... It's a shirtless man hugging the waist of another shirtless man. The cover art doesn't even have any text on it, but instead is just a picture of a couple of shirtless dudes in an incredibly weird pose. Yeah, I'm sure lots of fathers find themselves in scenes just like this. Totes normal. "Not every picture of two men is sexual." Yes, no shit. Of course on HN someone would try this morally righteous horseshit, es…

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 together in the movies.
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