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Rob at BoingBoing<\/a> said, “I’m calling it already: Windows 95 Tips is Blog of the Year,” and I sort of have to agree.<\/p>\n The site<\/a> is nothing but tips, alert boxes, and screenshots, presented entirely without comment. They present a view of an operating system that is somewhat more…sinister…than I remember Windows 95 being.*<\/p>\n The site is only a month old and thus still pretty sparse, but every entry is a gem that chronicles a slow descent into madness. I’m definitely looking forward to future updates.<\/p>\n (Incidentally, it’s not noted anywhere on the site–which I sort of like, as it adds to the general sense of dislocation–but the creator is Neil Cicierega<\/a>, who is also responsible for the Potter Puppet Pals<\/a>.) \n Rob at BoingBoing said, “I’m calling it already: Windows 95 Tips is Blog of the Year,” and I sort of have to agree. The site is nothing but tips, alert boxes, and screenshots, presented entirely without comment. They present a view of an operating system that is somewhat more…sinister…than I remember Windows 95 being.* The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16746"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16776,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16746\/revisions\/16776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n*Don’t get me wrong; Windows 95 was sinister, but it was more of a “incompetence mixed with utter disdain for the end user” vibe rather than something Lovecraftian. Either way, your soul got eaten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"