Kind of insane to think about how in the span of 30 years we went from Win95 / DOOM-style games to UE5 and effective (to some degree) large language models. In a year-over-year view not much changes, but decade-over-decade is quite a different story.
When 95 released, smartphones weren't a thing, internet wasn't common for households, and downloading an album would take you a day if you were one of the lucky ones with an internet connection lol.
I don't think MP3s were a widespread thing in August 1995.
That makes me wonder what the first pirated song was that was ripped to MP3 and provided for download over the Internet...
Original Win95 did not even install a TCP/IP stack by default. It was an optional extra on the CD-ROM.
This changed with OSR2 I believe, when they started bundling IE4.