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Microsoft tested Windows 95's compatibility by buying every PC program in the Egghead Software store, crashing its register with over a $10,000 purchase.

Apr 26, 2025 12:00:00 The Windows 95 startup sound and the Minecraft soundtrack are registered in the Library of Congress' Recording Registry as 'sounds that symbolize history and culture.' ...

The reboot sound for Microsoft’s Windows 95 operating system was composed by Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and producer Brian Eno. They're in pretty incredible company.

The Windows 95 reboot chime was one of 25 audio works added to the National Recording Registry this year. Brooks Kraft LLC / Sygma via Getty Images When users turned on their computers during the ...

Ironically, while Windows 95’s welcome chime accompanied one of the most successful computers of all time, Eno never owned one. “I wrote it on a Mac,” he confessed to the BBC in 2011.

The Microsoft Windows 95 start-up and reboot chime was composed by Brian Eno. Among the 84 sound elements Eno created for the project, the now-familiar six-second chime ...

The US Library of Congress has added the startup sound of Windows 95 and a Minecraft soundtrack album to its list of audio documents “worthy of preservation for all time”. This was announced ...

Tracy Chapman’s debut album. The original cast album of Broadway musical “Hamilton.” The chimes Brian Eno wrote for Microsoft Windows in 1995.