Mar 24, 2026
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Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older version
A very primitive version of recovery.
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Mar 10, 2026
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A snappy answer when asked about dressing casually at IBM
Oh, this old thing?
Mar 3, 2026
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Just for fun: A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media
Just some useless trivia.
Feb 10, 2026
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How did Windows 95 get permission to put the Weezer video Buddy Holly on the CD?
Asking nicely, and asking a lot of people.
Feb 3, 2026
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Some small stories about the giant satellite dish antenna that was behind Microsoft Building 11
A little trivia.
Jan 19, 2026
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What was the secret sauce that allows for a faster restart of Windows 95 if you hold the shift key?
An old flag from 16-bit Windows.
Dec 23, 2025
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When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates
So transfer them to his office, or so it seems.
Nov 25, 2025
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The apocryphal origins of the Hot Dog Stand color scheme
Challenge accepted.
Nov 11, 2025
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Behind the scenes on how Windows 95 application compatibility patched broken programs
Replacing bytes with the greatest of care.
Nov 10, 2025
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How did Windows 3.1 distinguish two different programs that happened to share the same executable name?
The trouble with disambiguation.