Internet Explorer Starter Kit (1996) - Time Travel
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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Today we travel back to 1996 and take a look at the Internet Explorer Starter Kit! This kit was bundled with certain copies of Windows 95. It included not only a copy of Internet Explorer, but additional tools that came in handy when browsing the web. Let's take a look at it!
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I still remember when "Flash Player" was called 'Shockwave Flash"
R.I.P Adobe Flash.
I remember when Adobe Animate/Flash was called FutureSplash Animator
@@CoolmineGaming especially when you go to those browser game websites.
SHOCKWAVE AND FLASH USED TO BE 2 SEPERATE ENTITIES
@@metallicarabbit Shockwave was the first product, then came shockwave flash. They continued as separate lines until eventually they just started calling the second one flash.
_"Internet Explorer, a state-of-the-art Web browser"_ ....... sure
Well compared to Netscape it was considered "state-of-the-art", well until firefox came into the picture, it was pretty much over for I.E at that point.
@@mackjeez chrome gang for life
IE3 was pretty good from memory
@@gtbsligo *future intensifies, everything is now chrome*
Internet explorer was always ass... it was just hard to tell because dialup was so limited. You were happy just to get there.
Fun fact: Microsoft Comic Chat is an IRC client that started as a research project. It encodes the character pose before every message sent so it can be annoying for people using normal IRC clients.
Yep and it had an activex control you could embed in vb apps or sites - it didnt support many irc standards but was kinda neat
yep, that Port number kinda gave it away: 6667.
Thought the same thing just seeing the port number... so you could actually use it! Exciting possibilities.
Not so fun fact: The third version of this included the Windows XP OOBE music before Windows XP started development.
This is why it would've been interesting if the PC had a sound card, just to check if this version had it.
It's on X:\Win95\eng\demobin\sounds\title.wav.
ooooooOoooooo
@@mvShooting Really? Windows XP came out in 2001 and released 6 years after Windows 95.
@@aldwinpanny10 Yes but the music wasn’t created with XP in mind - it dates all the way back to the IE 1.0 and Windows 95 era.
I'd love to see a followup on this, especially the hell game and browsing more of those cached sites! This really is a fascinating time capsule, I'll have to see if there's an archived iso out there. Thanks for making this video, and on an unrelated note, for your video on installing Windows 98 from USB! It came in handy a few days ago while I was restoring a ThinkPad X31! :)
Wow this brings back some memories. I remember when my dad bought me the Starter Pack at Walmart so I could learn HTML programming on my Windows 3.1 computer. I had to get them on 3.5 diskettes, and I believe I still have the box somewhere at their house.
I really like seeing content like yours; you have a way with words, editing, etc., that's just really good. Keep it up!
Thank you so much! I appreciate it
@@MichaelMJD You're welcome!
Agreed, I really like the way Mike describes things, makes the videos relaxing, interesting, and fun.
The author of the infamous title.wma windows xp oobe soundtrack said that it was originally composed in the 90s and meant to be included in something like this ie starter kit. I wonder if this was the actual piece of software it was originally meant to be included with, and if there is actually some sort of soundtrack along the wizard.
The legend himself, Internet explorer
The god of the internet.
I think your comment glitched UA-cam on my end... it says read more and nothing happens when I click it... :p
@@NotHereBoi :P
Oops, my comment glitched. What a disaster.
At least i got 6 likes, that's good.
The god that failed
@@jesumistro4771 haha
The best part of that CD is the background music.
Awesome content as usual.
Potential suggestion: a video on the history of the Microsoft Speech API, and all the SAPI voices would be greatly appreciated. I haven't seen this covered anywhere, and as a screen reader user who got his start on XP with Natural Microsoft Sam, it would be very interesting to here of their origins and development.
Thank you for making these videos! The way you explain and present things makes them really enjoyable. I really appreciate the products and time periods you cover. I was born in the early 2000s, and I'm currently studying to be a software designer. This kind of history is extremely interesting for me to watch, and important for my future career. You cover the stuff my expensive college tuition should be covering 😎 and for free! Thank you!
By the way MS (Comic) Chat is STILL possible to use today since it's essentially an IRC client. I tried connecting to an IRC server and it works quite well today, even on Windows 10.
I love windows 95, me and my friend tried to make a replica of it but didn’t get very far lol
lol
Care to elaborate on that? You tried to make an OS from scratch?
@@saintmerakbeta Must be very good at x86 assembly to even try. The hard part would be making it as bad as a real Microsoft product.
@@saintmerakbeta Maybe they did like Microsoft, use MS-DOS as a bootloader for Windows 95? To then jump in protected mode and initialize drivers....
Lots of memories in Comic Chat (later Microsoft Chat)- role-playing as the cat, alien, or the guy with the bag on his head, the over-zealous bots that would boot you out if there were even hints of dirty language, and the addition of sound effects and a character designer in later versions. And yes, it was perfectly acceptable to use Comic Sans at the time.
IE 3 was probably the first version of IE that really started to take on Netscape (being able to view animated GIFs and marquees as well as use frames and MIDI background music was so exciting at the time). IE 4 was when it started to integrate into the operating system and Internet Mail and News were replaced with Outlook Express - I have a couple of beta versions on CD from that time.
The new channel logo looks nice!
Never knew this existed!
Nice new channel pic too!
I'd love to see a follow up video on ActiveX, it's was really great technology in those times. Keep up the good work!
19:30 Oh, well the ActiveX Control Pad definitely makes me curious, so a video on that would be neat. It may have become known as a dangerous thing in more recent years, but an ActiveX editor program? Sounds old and interesting!
I'm surprised how in-depth Microsoft went into explaining internet concepts like certificate authorities, DNS, cryptography, etc. I was just expecting stuff like "click links to go to different pages". Really interesting video as always 👍
To be fair this was the 90s when this stuff still wasn’t known by many people and the internet was still new
I remember seeing AOL trial disks near the entrance to Target, and possibly Walmart. Any chance of a video on that?
Macromedia Shockwave.... Damn I feel old!!!!!
Nothing like installing that before going on Newgrounds or the early days of cartoon network!
The real question is...
Does it work on Windows 10?
Yes
Maybe you can try IE11. Comes bundled with Windows 10.
@@shriramthirumavalavan6115 Lmao
It's funny how a lot of words from that glossary are actually still relevant today.
I wonder if Michael would be able to make a video about the PC-9800.
EDIT: The X68000 would be cool to make a video on too.
omg i love MJD 3 likes :) (this guy needs more attention is smart)
¿Eres de españa?
yes. i remember when installing the ie for the first time. From that day on strange virus visited me quite often
Hey, can you save a PDF of that Internet Explorer book? I think it’ll help my grandmother, LOL! Anyway, still, that would be a good idea!
Microsoft seemed really aggressive about all those proprietary active X plugins right from the start.
WOah haloween profile picture! Looks nice :D
27:45 If you had an internet connection, and could find an IRC server that doesn't mind an ancient client like Comic Chat, you could use that to chat to real humans in 2020.
(Also, running the kit with sound might be interesting, as other commenters say…)
Comic Chat still works with most irc servers.
Yeah it would be interesting to see him connect to IRC on it today!
IRC doesn't really care, the protocol hasn't exactly changed since and any new capabilities IRCv3 has are designed to only be activated when requested from the client. Plus most big networks still accept unencrypted connections, so this would probably work just fine... not gonna lie I'm tempted to find a copy now
you hurt me when you took off the wraping
i made me my own Windows xp/whistler Version. i Just used the Windows XP DVD and whistler DVD
I'd also love to see a video about ActiveX, or as I like to call it, the Extend version of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Oh, and as with most things from the early web, something that became a huge security risk.
Still better than what's Google, Facebook, and even today's Microsoft is doing nowadays. I miss the days when the only thing I had to worry about is Microsoft dominating the Internet...
I had that silver IE disc. Blast from the past :-)
I am curious about the active X
Wow I like the new holiday special channel icon, Michael Mjd Horror Edition!
About to go to bed after working hard all day and doing the same thing all week then i saw this video and i watched it. Thanks addiction to videos on old tech
I remember trying to use Microsoft Chat offline as a kid, believing it was a comic strip designer software, lol.
One of the biggest reasons why I stayed on Windows 95 (and NT) for a while after its discontinuation was because I *didn’t* have to install Internet Explorer 4 or higher. Anyway, the versions up through 3.03 never bothered me as much since it didn’t update the shell.
"A state of the art web browser... Sure." Hahahahah!!!!
Now I know where those characters from the comic command in Septapus Discord bot came from
Hello fellow cyber-citizens!
I sorta miss the era when browsers came on discs
Ah good ole Internet Exploder...
Thank you for your service internet explorer.i remember all the moment when I used you to download chrome.
I can already hear the installation music in my head
11:02 Looks similar to the Windows XP setup thing.
Yes, I heard that it's title.wma, which is a Windows XP setup song.
$6 for a SSL certificate 😂
If only that were still true, I vaguely recall verisign charging exorbitant prices for them these days... Good thing we have letsencrypt.
yeah, letsencrypt is actually even better as it's free
Awesome video, Michael!
I love your content!
I use IE 5.00 on my windows 98 VM all the time and it’s great it does what I want as I have the protoweb server setup in IE
I love internet explore
I would love a retrospective on ActiveX controls!!!
Man, this is so cool!!! You are not going believe this, but I really liked the internet, computers, and the technology back then more than I like it today. It was so interesting and fun!!! Today's internet, computers, and technology is just boring!!! On yeah, do you ever watch the retro computer show called, "THE COMPUTER CHRONICLES" it's on the internet, and I watch it all the time, and I just love watching it. Sometimes I just let the reruns go all night. I go to bed watching it and wake up watching it. :-) Anyways, I really enjoyed going down computer memory lane watching this video!! :-) Have a great evening dude!!!! :-) -Saturday, January 16, 2021 - 9:58 AM Mountain Time
The booklet is for those who own computers with internet explorer, but no cd drive
Congratulations 🎉 of mjd 100k subscriber
love the Windows 95 videos!
Happy Halloween!
missed opportunity at 10:52 (XP's Setup Wizard Music goes here)
I challenge you to make a Halloween theme for Windows 8.1! Also nice Halloween pfp!
Some of the silly explanations and terminology like Cybercitizen really make Hypnospace Outlaw seem so much less over the top.
Wow, the bass needs to be lowered. His deep voice started shaking my floor.
one of the first 1000 people to watch this video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You should do a dedicated video on ActiveX Control Pad.
This is a great video! I imagine this works with my great, great, great, great, great grandson, Windows 10. Only because it is mostly just HTML files.
And ActiveMovie...my owner couldnt play _Andretti Racing_ due to it nagging at me and him for having a higher version of ActiveMovie.
Fun fact: Minecraft Java Edition still supports Windows XP to this day, even on the latest versions! This is because Minecraft Java still uses Java 8, and Java 8 is the last supported Java on Windows XP.
Windows 95 OSR 2 was the first version of Windows that included Internet Explorer (3.0) pre-installed. Windows 98 was indeed the first "retail" version that bundled IE.
And IE back then was a pretty capable browser. I tried using Netscape and didn't like the UI and neither how weird some websites looked in it (kinda how they look on Linux nowadays), I just couldn't get used to it until the last versions of Netscape Communicator which looked more like the first versions of Firefox did.
Smashing halloween edition logo! I'm digging it :)
The year I got on the Internet
Terminal Velocity, Fury3, and Hellbender!
Does anyone remember these little programs that were kind of like games but weren't and you would click on them and they would play little short programs. We called them .EXE and they were executable short flash player programs back in the late 90's. I haven't seen them but would love to find them again.
Internet Explorer: I used to rule the world!
Time travel did you make a previous episode I can watch Michael
Edit
Don’t worry I found the playlist
I actually didn't know the disc contained snapshots of various websites! Oh my. That feels to me like something that wouldn't be possible today in the same way due to heavy use of JavaScript.
That's exactly what wayback machine is for.
"Some enhancements for the operating system" *shows the vortex screensaver*
Keep up the great videos!
Thank you so much!
@@MichaelMJD you're welcome
Ohhh good a old days that i can't remember because i wasn't even born
I have always known that Internet Explorer software was included with some Windows 95 releases. I miss the Internet Explorer days.
My first modem was 28.8k. I was so excited when my new compy=uter came with a 56k mode. I bought that computer from Tiger Direct. It was a Pentium. lol 799$ That seems so cheap now. The company let you finance stuff directly from them too.
1:20 is that the iPad Pro on the windows 95 box?
How do I use the MJD protocol?
27:56 if you want you can put your own server in there from any irc server and use it's port just find an irc server and get it's information
Man this feels like the modern/Metro IE in Windows 8/8.1, where it's all full screen, with a status bar on the bottom.
Nice halloween channel icon.
Back in the days when Adobe Flash/Shockwave was Macromedia Flash/Shockwave. Good times. RIP Adobe Flash :/
I always liked the idea of comic chat but I never knew anyone that used it.
Cool !!!!
The port 6667 for the Comic Chat looks like that it's an IRC Client. Perhaps you can connect that to an unencrypted IRC Network.
Internet Explorer (1995-2015)
ActiveX... dam i'm old. Do a video on it ! PLZ
I want to see ActiveX
Omfg I remember Comic Chat! It was amazing! They need to bring that back.
but does it work on windows 10?
Software in the '90s came with a manual in the box
A retrospective to Microsoft Comic Chat for Windows 95?
I'd love to know why the world "chatting" is in quotes as if it is some novel technical slang the average person didn't know. Now to be fair I was not alive in 1996, but still....
i understand this is old video...but...when you needed to try to get to the desktop what you could try is...pull up the Tasks dialog select File-->New Task and enter explorer.exe (which is the desktop)
0:44 looks like windows 95 on a iPad Pro
Microsoft Comic chat looked like a primitive idea of Memoji, which its rival did more than a a decades later.
Back then when web had real information and not ad junk like nowadays where you can’t read anything without an ad getting in your way.
I miss the days of installing software from CD’s. I know you probably think I’m crazy. Also miss the days before social media. Again you probably think I’m nuts.