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Windows 95 start9/19/2023 Steve Ballmer (watch this video and tell me he didn’t quarterback this whole thing): ‘I’m going to stop you before we even start spitballing here, picture this: We get the entire production team on stage, we dress them up in their finest polo shirts and tuck those bad boys into our best elastic waistband black dress pants, we click play on The Rolling Stones: Start Me Up, and then we just go apesh!t dancing for the entire song.’ Microsoft Marketing: ‘Alright guys, we’re about to change the way people use their computers! This will launch our brand into the stratosphere and make a home computer as important as a TV, or VCR, or Nintendo! What should we do at the launch to really set the scene for this moment that will change the world?’ I think my favorite part of this whole thing is the backstory I have in my mind about how they landed on THIS as the go-to move to introduce the world to a new operating system. Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, and a bunch of other guys who own 94% of the wealth in the world, going bonkers on stage during the Windows ’95 launch. ‘Grape crushing fall,’ ‘home shopping network sword fail,’ ‘not today clip,’ just to name a few.īut this video, shot exactly 25 years ago today, this is it. Over the years I’ve developed a mental Rolodex of videos I like that will always cheer me up. I think this is my favorite video on the internet.
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