Microsoft Windows 95 video Guide with Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry

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A 1995 Microsoft promotional video guide to Windows 95, hosted by Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry. It walks through the new desktop, Start menu and features, with a skit about ordering Chinese food by fax.

HN sees it as a time capsule of 90s commercial computer demos, showing how a new operating system was sold to ordinary people.

“Here's Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry ordering Chinese via fax with the new Windows 95 in 1995”

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@niklasbuschmann2025 · in “Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide with Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry [video]”
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Aside from work—commerce, entertainment, and social communication are pretty much the only things most normies will ever use a computer for. Maybe light accounting and scheduling as well. This has been true since the 90s when the normie market for computers opened way up due to the internet becoming widely available, and companies have been demoing commercial applications for their equipment and software since then if not even before. Ordering food for delivery was the big one back then. Here's Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry ordering Chinese via fax with the new Windows 95 in 1995: ▶ this video I'm sure Don Hopkins can tell you a long annotated tale about the NeWS pizza ordering app that displayed a real-time dynamically-updated rotating pie on the screen as you filled out your order.
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