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The US Library of Congress has added the Windows 95 boot sound to its National Recording Registry (NRR). That means the sound is now part of a list of recordings that are “culturally, historically, or ...

The boot-up chime for Microsoft Windows 95 is being preserved in the Library of Congress, the National Recording Registry announced this week. The track was produced by famed songwriter Brian Eno, who ...

20 years ago today, Microsoft launched Windows 95, with help from the Rolling Stones "Start me Up." The song choice was prophetic. For better or worse, the launch of Windows 95 was the beginning of a ...

The National Recording Registry announced its 2025 inductees, and there are some geeky sounds that will be immortalized in the Library of Congress. The Microsoft Windows 95 reboot chime was selected ...

That GUI really did seem to make Windows a friendlier, happier place to be, with far fewer blinking prompts and obtuse menu systems. So, if you're a Windows user today you owe something both to ...

What just happened? Sounds from Microsoft and Minecraft were among the 25 recordings recently inducted into the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress based on their historical, ...

Every so often, Microsoft design director Diego Baca boots up an old computer so he can play around with Windows 95 again. Baca has made a hobby of assembling old PCs with new-in-box vintage parts, ...

Brian Eno has posted an open letter to Microsoft asking them to cut ties with Israel. The musician, producer and ambient pioneer famously composed the now iconic seven second start-up chime for ...

Artist and musician Brian Eno — who also composed the iconic Windows 95 operating system startup chime — called on Microsoft today to “suspend all services that support any operations that contribute ...

The influential musician pledged to donate his earnings from the Windows 95 chime to people in Gaza. The influential musician pledged to donate his earnings from the Windows 95 chime to people in Gaza ...