Microsoft released Windows 95 in August 1995, and its startup sound was composed by musician Brian Eno, who was asked to create a short welcoming piece for the new operating system. The result became one of the most recognisable sounds in computing history, heard by millions of people as home computers spread through the 1990s. Today it survives mainly through nostalgia and internet humour, where short clips are reused to evoke the era, parody outdated technology and signal a throwback to early personal computing.
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The Windows 95 startup sound, a short rising chime from Microsoft's 1995 operating system. It is used for retro tech videos and nostalgia edits.
This is the familiar chime that greeted Windows 95 users as their computer finished loading, a brief, smooth sequence of synthesized notes that rises gently before settling into a warm, reassuring finish. It is instantly recognisable even to people who never used the system, because its calm, polished tone feels like the sound of technology becoming friendly and personal for the first time. In videos it creates an immediate wave of nostalgia, signalling a simpler era of bulky monitors, dial-up connections and waiting patiently for a desktop to appear, and it often makes viewers smile before anything else happens on screen.
