Windows 95
It's from 1995, before you were born.
- Maker
- Microsoft
- Type
- PC operating system
- Debuted
- 1995
- Note
- Launch song: "Start Me Up"
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About
As of 2026, it's 31 years old.
Windows 95 launched in August 1995 with a marketing blitz so enormous Microsoft paid the Rolling Stones for "Start Me Up" and got people lining up at midnight — to buy an operating system, which had never happened before and arguably shouldn't have.
It gave the world the Start button, the taskbar, and Plug and Play, finally making PCs something normal humans could use without a manual the size of a phone book. The Recycle Bin and Minesweeper came along for the ride.
Loud, hyped, and genuinely transformative, Windows 95 is the OS that put a Start button on the world and made booting up a computer feel, for one weird summer, like a cultural event.
