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Windows 95 Startup

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About the Windows 95 Startup sound

Microsoft commissioned this from Brian Eno with a brief asking for something inspiring, universal and optimistic, plus a hard length limit of three and a quarter seconds. He made eighty-four versions before settling on one. The chime that shipped in 1995 opens on a shimmering major chord and remains the most artful piece of music any operating system has ever booted with. For anybody who owned a beige tower it is pure sense-memory: dial-up in the next room, a CRT warming up, an entire afternoon still ahead of you.

OriginThe Windows 95 startup sound, composed by Brian Eno (1995).

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  • #windows-95
  • #startup
  • #nostalgia

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