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There’s a new benchmark in town for measuring performance on Windows 95 PCs
The app spits out benchmarking scores for five things: single-core CPU performance, multi-core CPU performance, 2D graphics ...
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Windows 95 Jingle, 1960 World Series Broadcast and Other ‘Audio Treasures’ Added to the National Recording Registry
From a list of 2,600 nominations submitted by the public, the Library of Congress has selected 25 songs, albums and sounds ...
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Celebrating 30 Years Of Windows 95 At VCF
Dos5] and [Commodore Z] are celebrating with an epic exhibit at Vintage Computer Festival East 2025. They had no fewer than ...
The Windows 95 start-up sound and the Minecraft soundtrack have been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings
Tracks added to the list are judged to be "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress, ...
The Windows 95 Chime Just Earned a Spot in the National Recording Registry
The 6-second start-up anthem joins “My Heart Will Go On” and the ‘Hamilton’ soundtrack as “one of the defining sounds of ...
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Microsoft's Windows 95 startup sound has been immortalized in the Library of Congress
The US Library of Congress has decided to immortalize the Windows 95 startup sound in the National Recording Registry.
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US Library Of Congress honours windows 95 and Minecraft theme as most iconic soundtracks
When it comes to PC startup sounds and all, no sounds at all are as stellar as when they get compared to the original Windows ...