Yes I did, in 1995 Microsoft changed the world. On August 24, 1995, Windows 95 was released to the public, beginning a revolution that has helped shaped the technology world for the next two decades. It was by no means the first version of Windows, Home computing had been around for more than a decade, but nothing before, had had the same impact, and they were not so common. Win 95 as well as being a technological breakthrough, introducing features that still define Microsoft’s operating system today, Windows 95 was an unprecedented cultural phenomenon. Microsoft beat all its competitors (like Macintosh) and kept them down for over a decade. Computers started to become popular like never before in the 90s both from households to large corporation, by 1998 when Windows 98 came out the world had become more dependent in computers in 3 years than it did ever before (and Bill gates the richest man in the world). Various scifi movies like The Matrix in 1999 also had huge influence on computers taking over ideas of computers taking over and controlling human lives one day. Since the mid 90s computer revolution technology has been booming, and by the 2010s the smart phone revolution arrived. Microsoft Windows still remains the most popular OS for desktop, and even though popularity of desktops is declining, smart phones, tablets, etc are becoming popular, but it still remains in respectable position especially in corporations and work places. However it was Windows 95 that brought the popularity of computing to the global main stream and start the phase of technological revolution that lasts to the present day, and since then people have become more dependent on technologies than ever before. Did I see this coming you ask? I am a living witness to the Windows 95 revolution and seeing its escalating popularity and people's dependency on devices using such OS then I did for see the modern phase of the technological revolution since 1995 that persists to the present day, computers are there everywhere, and people are more dependent on them today than ever before...
Would you have guessed life would be this way 20 years ago?
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Yes I did, in 1995 Microsoft changed the world. On August 24, 1995, Windows 95 was released to the public, beginning a revolution that has helped shaped the technology world for the next two decades. It was by no means the first version of Windows, Home computing had been around for more than a decade, but nothing before, had had the same impact, and they were not so common. Win 95 as well as being a technological breakthrough, introducing features that still define Microsoft’s operating system today, Windows 95 was an unprecedented cultural phenomenon. Microsoft beat all its competitors (like Macintosh) and kept them down for over a decade. Computers started to become popular like never before in the 90s both from households to large corporation, by 1998 when Windows 98 came out the world had become more dependent in computers in 3 years than it did ever before (and Bill gates the richest man in the world). Various scifi movies like The Matrix in 1999 also had huge influence on computers taking over ideas of computers taking over and controlling human lives one day. Since the mid 90s computer revolution technology has been booming, and by the 2010s the smart phone revolution arrived. Microsoft Windows still remains the most popular OS for desktop, and even though popularity of desktops is declining, smart phones, tablets, etc are becoming popular, but it still remains in respectable position especially in corporations and work places. However it was Windows 95 that brought the popularity of computing to the global main stream and start the phase of technological revolution that lasts to the present day, and since then people have become more dependent on technologies than ever before. Did I see this coming you ask? I am a living witness to the Windows 95 revolution and seeing its escalating popularity and people's dependency on devices using such OS then I did for see the modern phase of the technological revolution since 1995 that persists to the present day, computers are there everywhere, and people are more dependent on them today than ever before...