I personally prefer Windows XP including David Byrne's "Like Humans Do" as the demo track for Windows Media Player
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?
#52IIRC there was also an Edie Brickell video.
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#53This is Edie Brickell erasure!
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#54Decades 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…
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Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#55Decades 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…
Edie is also married to Paul Simon of all people. The story of how they got together is very sweet.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#56Always 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…
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 bad you couldn't tell the difference...
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#57Always 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.
Others covered it. This was high school, not college. :) it was upperclassmen only and your parents or bad grades could get the privilege revoked.
School grounds are also commonly called campuses in the US, not just colleges. Our high school called it “off-campus lunch”.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#58This is quite short and doesn't really contain any insights or details that aren't simply obvious or easily assumed.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#59Back in 1997 or so I bought an ATI video card that also had a Weezer video on the CD. I remember being amazed that it could play the video at 1024x768 with just a little bit of tearing.
Re: How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
#60Decades 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…
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.