This video delights digital oldies: forgotten memories of what it was like to have a computer in the 90s

A few hours ago we saw how Microsoft winked at the past and retro, as some would say, with the new wallpapers with Clippy as the protagonist. And now the computer science and decades ago returns to be the protagonist with a video that will make more than one smile. A video in which computing from the 90s is the protagonist

At a time when Windows 95 arrived causing a great media impact, there were many who had their first contact with the Windows world and with computers in general.And that sound when turning on a computer with Windows 95 or the noise of the floppy drive, is still present in the memories of many.

The era of digital oldies

There are sounds that make us travel in the past. In my case I remember the start of the Sonic game on my MegaDrive or the first FIFA back in 1994 and along with these the unmistakable Windows 95 startup sound when I turned on my old Pentium at 90 Hz.

And it has been the Tiktok user, @shtunner, who has dedicated himself to sharing on the social network those sounds with which many of us have grown up. Different audios associated with computing at the end of the century that have also been shared on Twitter by Gina Tost.

In an age of cathode tube monitors, 640 x 480 resolutions where even 1080p was not considered.When computers were mounted on huge towers and in some other less compact ones that we placed horizontally as the base of the monitor, the era of CDs and the first DVD's…

Just by starting the video we already have a flash in our heads when we see how it starts with the pressing of the switch on an old towerThen comes the classic beep that computers used to start checking the read of the floppy drive (yes, we had that too) and of course, the unforgettable Windows 95 welcome sound.

It's just the beginning of a video in which other now-forgotten sounds also appear From the clicking noise that was produced in the floppy drive when inserting the diskette and reading it, going through the sound of the mechanical keyboards or those beeps that the 56 Kbps modem made and that cut off when someone called the home landline, that is if you had internet at that time.The video ends as expected, with the Windows 95 farewell sound and the warning that we can now turn off the computer... with the button, because at that moment the computer had to be turned off by hand.