Microsoft is turning 50, and nothing has defined the tech giant more than Windows. Like you, we've loved some versions of the ...

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 ...

as you'll see in the pictorial history below. It also spelled the end of an era for DOS, which until then had been a separately available operating system. Windows 95 appeared on the cover of PC ...

Windows 95 startup sound added to National Recording Registry Library of Congress recognizes cultural, historical significance of iconic sound Microsoft's Minecraft music also included in NRR's ...

From a list of 2,600 nominations submitted by the public, the Library of Congress has selected 25 songs, albums and sounds ...

New entrants are added “based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage” ...

The 6-second start-up anthem joins “My Heart Will Go On” and the ‘Hamilton’ soundtrack as “one of the defining sounds of history.” ...

It's the Windows 95 start-up sound, and it's recently been ... months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 years ...

It’s official — the sound that computers made when rebooting on Microsoft Windows 95 is now a historical ... sounds of America — our wide-ranging history and culture. The National Recording ...

History tells us that Windows 2.0 took Windows ... 3.1. It’s not fair to call Windows 98 a service pack for Windows 95, but this 1998 consumer operating system was very influenced by Windows ...