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Lauren Hockenson
ReporterLauren is a reporter for The Next Web, based in San Francisco. She covers the key players that make the tech ecosystem what it is right now. Lauren is a reporter for The Next Web, based in San Francisco. She covers the key players that make the tech ecosystem what it is right now. She also has a folder full of dog GIFs and uses them liberally on Twitter at @lhockenson.
If you needed another way to feel like a barely relevant, crusty old, here it is. The Fine Brothers bring their wildly popular and fairly controversial ‘React’ series to Windows 95, an operating system that most of the teens recruited to navigate were not even born to witness.
Yep, do the math: Kids old enough to vote in America don’t even know about Windows 95.
The results are, predictably, cringe-inducingly funny: one girl is outright shocked to learn the computer doesn’t have WiFi capabilities, some are slack-jawed at installation speeds, and they all marvel at the ‘ancient’ look of it all.
Now if you don’t mind me, I’ll be in the corner with some scotch.
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