Update* for those asking where can you download/buy this season of nostalgic soundscapes, it WILL be released once episode 10 airs, so in the meantime feel free to check out my other music, who knows maybe you'll like it! retrovex.bandcamp.com I composed an ambient track using nostalgic elements reminiscent of a certain iconic operating system, maybe some of you might like it, old-school vibes guaranteed! You can support me on: ko-fi.com/retrovex

@abloogywoogywoo

4 ай бұрын

10/10

@w1ck3dz0d1ac

4 ай бұрын

When you try setting your PC to sleep mode but it ends up in 'meditate'...

@BrettMaynard-sj5ix

3 ай бұрын

this is awesome, I haven't ran into a anyone who has managed to make a legit ambient track with nostalgia elements from our real world like this.. superb!

@FuzzyDunlop-pt5pe

3 ай бұрын

good stuff

@user-xx6wh5nm4s

3 ай бұрын

Im listening in Yamaha HS8 in a studio I can hear u did an awesome work with sub and low bass fq Amaising!

After private computers were invented, but before social media, there was a golden age. All computing was associated with visual images of green meadows and rolling hills, occasionally with rustic structures such as Greek ruins or Maine county estates. We were not being monitored nor spied on, and we were free to look at whatever website we wished and find our own niches. We unfortunately do not realise true value, until we cant get it anymore.

@charliebigbear1630

4 ай бұрын

I'm crying now that I remember those days

@Cha-Cha_7

4 ай бұрын

I remember so much those Friday nights spent on ICQ and on newgrounds…

@FakefulandDisgracedSlaveClass

4 ай бұрын

Late 90s, spent many nights trouble shooting my broken down PC lol.

@clinicalpsychologist

4 ай бұрын

The man who needs to pay with his own life about it is Mark Zuckerberg

@alahatim

4 ай бұрын

Yeah man, very well explained. This was OUR wild west!

I used to be jealous of younger people and children being born. They had their whole life ahead of them and so much time to live and experience everything. But then I thought a lot and reached the conclusion: Growing up before smartphones and social media was incredible. Humans will never have that again, there will always be ubiquitous technology now. Things were slower, things were calmer, things were better in many ways. This post is dedicated to all the 80's and 90's kids out there. Godspeed.

@cristobalroig

3 ай бұрын

Great thoughts

@john91051

2 ай бұрын

Let's not forget that those were the years right after the cold war. The past is always better, especially if you had your teen years there, until you realise it's just another bias.

@JesseLeeHumphry

2 ай бұрын

@@john91051 exactly. Nostalgia is a powerful, addictive drug. It takes effort to realize that it's a feeling, not a fact.

@n8pls543

2 ай бұрын

I used to be jealous of younger people and children being born. They had their whole life ahead of them and so much time to live and experience everything. But then I thought a lot and reached the conclusion: Growing up before steam engines and electric lighting was incredible. Humans will never have that again, there will always be ubiquitous technology now. Things were slower, things were calmer, things were better in many ways. This post is dedicated to all the 1780's and 1790's kids out there. Godspeed.

@Quball87

2 ай бұрын

@@n8pls543 my post laments the takeover of the mind and emotions by modern technology and the corporatization of the internet....comparing my thoughts to a steam engine, horse and buggy, etc. while amusing, misses the point.

When us 90's kids pass away, this is what we'll hear as we go to the Great Beyond.

@pdnb4458

4 ай бұрын

We will go to the Sacramento valley in the sky

@stevejordan7275

4 ай бұрын

No! Do not go gently into that "good" night. Rage. *RAGE!* against the dying of the light. We've lost enough!

@Leprechaunproduction

4 ай бұрын

@@stevejordan7275 I don't know; I like the idea of peacefully fading away listening to this.

@fxsurgeon1

3 ай бұрын

@@stevejordan7275 true. I want my retaliation against time :P

@Spyro-

3 ай бұрын

I highly doubt that 90's kids used Windows 95.

I keep coming back here. It’s not that I miss the past, it’s that I miss the future that we never got. Something hasn’t felt right since the early 2000’s. I can’t be the only 80’s/90’s kid that feels this way.

@dalar2

2 ай бұрын

it all leads back to 9/11, 2007 GFC, and the indoctrination of our youth in our schools to hate each other left or right, breaking the social fabric that once united a nation - think of the madness the gender topic is causing. In addition the complete dissolution of the middle class; now its just rich and poor - the rich have choices and can buy their politicians, the poor will vote for the party that gives them handouts - the middle class a.k.a "independent thinkers" have been wiped out - as planned. There is no future vision for the current and next generation.

@20david06

2 ай бұрын

Those in power can't have us peasants enjoying ourselves or becoming self aware too much.

@robdelacruz6330

2 ай бұрын

You got that right. So many theories as to why. I wonder often if there's a way to reverse the negative trend.

@Navis56

2 ай бұрын

Everything is corporate now, souless.

@bigl4201

2 ай бұрын

everything went wrong on and after 9/11.

This gets me pretty emotional. The internet had a lot more soul back then. Reminds me of spending countless hours finding fan sites and other hidden gems.

@TimLewallen

4 ай бұрын

Exactly. Much more of a pirate radio vibe with no one to tell us we were doing it wrong. It was glorious.

@BobbyMasteria

3 ай бұрын

a fan site ? what's that...

@NinjaAttorneyAtLaw

3 ай бұрын

@@BobbyMasteria people would make websites dedicated to an interest. Pokemon was a big one I remember.

@synthesis117

3 ай бұрын

same........yes.....a moment in time were the future looked so bright and beautiful. Lucky we were able to experience that feeling.

@a1pha_star

3 ай бұрын

@@TimLewallen It was the wild west. 🤠

It's funny how everyone that grew up in the 80's and 90's seems to agree that computers, the internet and life in general was much more fun back in the day, especially before social media came around. Although we now have technology we could only dream of back then, there was much more serenity and peace when surfing the internet or playing a game. I'm 40 now, so it may also be related to the fact I was still in my teens when the internet became a thing, but this ambient mix really seems to reflect the feeling I sometimes had when playing Sim City 2000, Transport Tycoon or Quake, sometimes for hours on end and just forgot about the time and other things in life.

@MarcV_IndieGameDev

3 ай бұрын

I played all them games and they were all awesome! I'm 38, still having fun! All 3D game development related, but the joy digital art brings is next level. I would say fun is far better now, we have access to what we had before and even more now. It's really about can you be bothered committing to a hobby or not feeling bad playing a video game 2-3hrs. Keep cool and enjoy the vibe!

@Arcgateway

3 ай бұрын

and then you realise that it was like this with every topic offline, even cars had colors. And now it just gets worse year to year. More gray, more bland, more work for same living standard.

@JohnVance

3 ай бұрын

I'm 40 and I remember. It's the weirdest feeling, at the time I always thought the "Frutiger Aero" aesthetic was kinda loud and gauche, but now I'd just about die to visit an old '90s mall or see something not just getting more and more grimdark for once.

@user-ke9sd9ej6h

3 ай бұрын

we still have that its called elden ring

@MarcV_IndieGameDev

3 ай бұрын

@@Arcgateway All about the perspective lens, you want to see black and grey, you'll see it! You want to see colour, you'll see it. Things are only bleak when you want them to be!

in 1995 Brian Eno planted a sonic seed... then after 29 years, people hear it bloom into infinity. This is the essence of humanity.

@RetrovexAmbient

3 ай бұрын

Exactly, I couldn't have said it better my self 💜 next up, Ken Kato 😁

"No Midjourney or any other AI’s has been used to make this video happen" - Thank you!

@eyeseeyou9411

2 ай бұрын

AI is good, embrace it. It's here to stay Humans are obsolete..

@MiguelPerez-vc7it

Ай бұрын

that phrase is kindda sad ngl

@mythbustersfan3456

19 күн бұрын

This is why I miss people actually putting countless of hours into their dedicated work, now it’s just BS AI doing it all for them which feels very corporate and more synthetic. Born in the 90s grew up in the 2000s I’m glad I grew up being taught the proper old school way and still today and actually prefer it because it works really well. If only this golden age was the future, that and a mix of the window 7 days of frutiger aero.

So Microsoft paid Brian Eno $35,000 for the opening soundbite of Windows 95!! Brian Eno is considered by many to be the father of ambient music.

@minuetteultraviolet

3 ай бұрын

Exactly 😊. Idk, but I think he would be proud of your work 😊❤️

@emanuildimitroff

3 ай бұрын

Wondered why I like Windows 95's opening sound bite the most...

@abbyr654

3 ай бұрын

Brian Eno is the absolute GOAT of ambient music

@karraguer

3 ай бұрын

The fun fact is he created such a tune in an Apple computer 😅

@rickysimmons4220

3 ай бұрын

also his name is an anagram for Brain One

all I can say is thank God I was alive to witness the 90s... peak of the human experience

Windows '95 is strongly connected to my childhood. I can't explain it to you, but you if know, you know.

@reevesc1986

3 ай бұрын

I know ♥️🙏🏻

@nicholassgourakis6020

3 ай бұрын

I know exactly how you feel and I'm so happy to see that I am not the only one who feels this way about Windows 95.

@stoomdoom6148

3 ай бұрын

I know too 🙏

@lennonblack

3 ай бұрын

The start up sound rocks me to my core. So many memories flood back just hearing that sound.

@Aurora-qn2dx

3 ай бұрын

I know..

Beautiful and haunting. The soundtrack of a lost futuristic hope and optimism of the 90's.

@JohKnoxx

3 ай бұрын

I couldn't conceive better expression for that.

@robbratcher4675

3 ай бұрын

I was so optimistic about the future as a kid in the 90's. How could it have ended so horribly? 9/11 was the crossing of the rubicon. The 2000's were a mix of old and new. Early 2000's felt like a 90's hangover, late 2000's you started seeing a lot of signs of bad things to come... early 2010's felt like the entrance to the new reality... and then we dropped completely off a cliff into this hellscape in 2015. Beginning to wonder if my derealization is really just a mental health issue or if we really are lost in an alt dimension. (but I have faith in Christ so I don't really believe that)

@emanuildimitroff

3 ай бұрын

Exactly!

@emanuildimitroff

3 ай бұрын

I felt it absolutely the same way...@@robbratcher4675

@MrCleates

3 ай бұрын

@@robbratcher4675 It's demoralisation. Look up Yuri Bezmenov's lectures, you'll be able to start making sense of it from there. Humanity's in a war, you're just unaware of it.

the reason why this nostalgic feels good is bc its from a time when the internet was peaceful and good. It was wonderful to explore all the hidden nooks and crannies. Compared to now when everyone has emotional and mental sickness bc of what todays internet has done, designed to get people enraged to promote engagement.

@JohnVance

3 ай бұрын

"Y'know, it wasn't always like this..."

@nerychristian

2 ай бұрын

This brings back memories. Being at college, inside a computer lab, browing websites designed by ordinary people. Chatting with people on Yahoo. Working on documents and saving them on Zip drives.

@10010x0x0x01101XX0X1

2 ай бұрын

@@nerychristian yea. back then you felt good wherever you were, because the internet wasn't designed to make you feel FOMO. so sitting in a lab by yourself felt peaceful. but now, 90 percent of the internet is social network crap designed to hijack your attention and make you feel bad to be in the present moment

@mithcee

2 ай бұрын

Can you imagine? Strangers used to gather in chat rooms because it made them happy to talk to others, to share their interests, to roleplay fantasy, to build friendships and create bonds. Chat rooms and forums used to have rules against "flaming" and "flame wars" because arguing and being insulting were the exception not the rule. How sad it is that online discourse is now driven primarily by rage and disagreement. And worse, that people at large just accept this.

@10010x0x0x01101XX0X1

2 ай бұрын

@@mithcee i miss it so much

My mind just went straight back to my parent's office in the late 90's, as a pre-teen, sitting at that old PC. That memory feels more real, more substantial, and more precious to me than the current moment & place I am in now as I type this in 2024. I feel frozen, with a bittersweet emotion; realizing how incredibly precious that time in my life, and that era, was. I want to just step out of this mental tesseract that I find myself in, standing beside the childhood version of me, unbeknownst to him, and for just one tear-filled moment, just hug my young, former self. I want to tell him how beautiful this moment is, that every doubt he ever had about himself at that tender age is totally ok (don't be so hard on yourself), and just go tell your family, your pets, your friends...just how much you love them. Some of them won't be here much longer... Then step outside, look into the sky of the world that will sadly never be again, and take a breath so big, that your future self will feel it all those years later. I imagine all of us, another quarter century from now, will wish we could do the same for the 2024 versions of ourselves we experience now. This life is just one giant, gentle, beautiful & bittersweet mirage... Incredible the power this music has on the mind, and what that humble little windows environment in the innocent infancy of computing has on all of us: a power so great that it would both build an entire new world, and innocuously, but eventually, eradicate an old one. Thank you for your creation, Retrovex. This helped me get in touch with a part of me I haven't felt in a long, long time...

@RetrovexAmbient

2 ай бұрын

Thank YOU for such in depth and personal speech about how this made you feel, I'm honestly honoured that it means so much to you and I hope you're doing ok, life can be tough but it always bounces back for the better, stay relaxed and thank you so much for the donation, wish you a wonderful year!

@SproutyPottedPlant

2 ай бұрын

How the heck were you able to output that with the correct words?

@maxivy

Ай бұрын

Amazing comment dude. Wow. This is why I read the comments.

@keyser021

Ай бұрын

@@SproutyPottedPlant If you find articulate prose painting poetic scenery of magical insights and experience to enshrine which inspires emotive response impressive then look to the head of the fount and find the one who has inspired all who follow in his wake with their mere mumblings: Lord Dunsany - In the Land of Time: And Other Fantasy Tales

@ianperesmusic

Ай бұрын

90's kid here. Thanks, I'm crying now.

Reminds me of being home in the 1990s- when everything was normal. Future generations will never know how good things used to be instead of how advanced they are now.

We were lucky. I never get sad with these things because I always think "Don't be sad that it's gone, be happy that you got to experience it"

Yes it was the golden age - things felt quieter and that world was your niche.

Amazing, truly the Golden Age of personal computing. Who remembers those awesome discs that you got with PC magazines, packed with cool stuff like music software, or demos for up and coming video games? What a fantastic time it was indeed!

@ck_baker

3 ай бұрын

1000% agree, I think about those magazines at least once a month.

@minuetteultraviolet

3 ай бұрын

Yeah! I loved that magazine. I remember I discovered Twinsen (Little big adventure) there ❤

@ThoughTMusic

3 ай бұрын

"They Hunger" - A Half-Life zombie horror mod that had 3 chapters stretched out over 3 discs (1 chapter per month). It was the pinicle gaming magazines and computing!

@challengecoins4u

3 ай бұрын

omg yes! and sometimes in cereal boxes too, like the kids version of the game Doom that you found in the Chex cereal box!

@Jisoe22

3 ай бұрын

@@ThoughTMusicit was called They Hunger ;) great times indeed

A nostalgic past representing the future that never was. How melancholic.

@smon4164

2 ай бұрын

That's a great way to put it. That computer floating out at sea, it's like a castaway, lost.

@michaels.3709

Ай бұрын

What ever happened to that techno-optimistic future we were all promised? Was it all just marketing to convince us to sell our future to the tech giants so they could profit off our wonder and excitement? Did it have to turn out this way? Was building tools to tie our brains to screens for ad revenue really necessary?

I should not have listened to this at work. The wave of nostalgia overcoming me is almost making me tear up.

@RetrovexAmbient

3 ай бұрын

It's ok to cry 💜it just means it was a good memory/time

@ivanbraidi

3 ай бұрын

I feel you, bro.

@DJeimaXe

3 ай бұрын

It is soooo gawddd@mn trruuuuuuuuueeeee

@smon4164

2 ай бұрын

I'm past that. I'm typing this with tears running down my face.

Having been born in 1987, this track brings back so many memories of when I was young, when we bought our first computer, the first time i heard the carrier chirp to log on to the internet...so much has changed since then. My kids will never know a world where you couldn't access the internet anywhere and everywhere you go. My generation was truly the last generation to grow up without tech being a necessary object for daily life.

@bmbmkv8342

3 ай бұрын

я родился в 1985 году в СССР, первый компьютер у меня появился только в 2002 году на 98 винде. Да, у каждой нации свои ассоциации с компьютерами и детством

@bmbmkv8342

3 ай бұрын

первой была была китайская пиратская копия NES, которую в Росии/Украине называли Dendy, это был 1995 год, потом появилась Sega 16 бит, это был уже 1998-1999 , компьютеры были только у детей богатых родителей.

@Miikhiel

3 ай бұрын

Also an 87 baby. Also remember the times as halcyon days. AoL was part of that journey for me too. It was definitely different times. I don’t long to relive my childhood but I do miss how simpler things were back then.

@wiewiorpl

3 ай бұрын

My exact thoughts

@meanwhileinjapan2265

2 ай бұрын

Nope some of us born after you grew up without computers and internet usage and just enjoyed a normal childhood running around outside and having fun.

Back when to go on Internet, I needed to take the bus 1h to the big city, and pay access in a cybercafe. I would insert a floppy disc, look for useful pieces of codes, tutorials, download them and copy them to study them at home. Internet was much more about personal webpages than corporate web applications, a worldwide village. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain...

The invention of computers and the WWW gave many people literally a second chance. Disabled people and introverted people have a new opportunity to explore this world. I hope that after I die, in paradise, I will also have a personal computer. He literally saved me from loneliness.

The ability to take sounds from a Windows 95 system and to turn into art such as this... Within the first thirty seconds somehow I was hit with a wave of nostalgia and felt tears come to my eyes. Thank you for sharing your talents!

@RetrovexAmbient

4 ай бұрын

That's really nice of you to say , thank you so much! 💜I hope to bring many soundscapes for everyone to listen :)

Gen-Z will never know what they missed. Thank God I had my childhood in the optimistic, colorful, ethereal, mystical 90s.

@shadow7988

2 ай бұрын

Same, I couldn't even begin to imagine what it's like growing up in an age where everyone has a camera ready to put you on blast to the entire world in seconds sitting in their pocket. All the crazy and dumb stuff I did as a kid that was fun would never fly now. How do they not feel like prisoners constantly being watched?

@stormcutter59

2 ай бұрын

@@shadow7988 They do. That's partly why they are so miserable. The government and corporate megalomaniacs want to sow the seeds of resentment by pitting groups against others. Laying the blame on people that never did anyone any harm. "White people are the problem. Men and boys are products of toxic masculinity" Blah blah blah. Its the mark of a miserable and lying society and it needs to stop. Only we can control how we react to it and fortunately more and more young kids are getting tired of living that way. Hopefully enough people will force a change in the future and we can get back to being free citizens again

@GoldenRing2023

2 ай бұрын

@@shadow7988 I was born in 2005, Almost every day I have nostalgia for the 90s and the early 2000s, I didn't live in the 90s but I wish I did. Almost everyone believes Gen Z has an addiction to smartphones when people born in the 2000s, 2001-2004 for example were before the iPhone or even Android phones came out

@goose300183

2 ай бұрын

​@@GoldenRing2023 The only thing I really believe about gen Z is that most of them don't know a time without phones and the internet, or time truly away from parents/guardians. That's really it. I was born two decades before you in 85. The 90s were my childhood, and I vaguely remember the tail end of the 80s. When I was a kid, the 'phone' was something physical in my house and I rarely used it. It was a thing my mum used mostly. The "internet" wasn't as it is today, and none of my friend group's parents had it. I spent a lot of my childhood outside disconnected from my parents for most of the day. There was no expectation to text them telling them where I was, or saying I was safe, as I had no tech to do so! I just had to be in by dinner time, and that was the only condition. Sometimes if we were building a den somewhere into the night, or if we were going to camp out (I lived in a remote, rural area as a kid), a messenger would be sent to inform whichever set of parents was closest to our location that we would all be out later. Usually the fittest kid who could run the longest! It was as if we as kids had our own little civilisation and society away from the adults. We built our own places to play around and congregate at. If one of us got slightly injured, or tore up our clothes out on adventures, a discussion was had about how to hide it from the parents so that they wouldn't try to curtail our freedom. The World was wide and full of wonder! We knew which adults to stay away from. We knew which activities were dangerous. We took care of each other. That's what is different now I feel, as parents seem to keep MUCH closer tabs on their kids now. Kids don't have the freedom that I had. Being older, I see what the internet and smartphones have done to my life, and those of my age group. It's not all positive, that's for sure. People are much more paranoid these days when it comes to what their children are doing and where they are. That's good in some ways, but bad in many others. The kids don't really get to live their own separate life. Our parents didn't know what we were doing, or where we were, and they were fine with that. It was a more innocent time. That's what is different in my mind. Those times ended sometime in the 00s when most people my age (and older, and younger) got consumed by connectivity, and starting getting phones, and phones for their kids.

@RewtB33R

2 ай бұрын

As an '05 Gen-Z that practically surrounded myself with the early themes and had a huge attachment for the computer technology and software of the 90's and early 00's. I know exactly what my generation missed. Listening to things like this, pulling my old 95 and 98 machines out of the closet for some old games every now and then, and even building the machines based on hardware I find at the dump. I get ripely emotional any time I stop to think about what we're missing nowadays. It feels like everything quickly evaporated and became soulless. And in my situation, I have almost nobody of similar age that understands or feels the same as I do. It's almost painful rather than nostalgic. Just as easily as I can seemingly put the lost future back together from what I find at the dump, I can toss it back and let it get buried to return to the Earth.

The internet was trully ours, we grew up with it in its infancy. We got to experience the best of it, no generation after us will ever know the joy of a pre 9/11 world.

@nerychristian

2 ай бұрын

Remember when Yahoo had chat lobbies? And you could join a lobby and start chatting with people from all over the world? Man! I miss MySpace.

@SirRorschachJack

2 ай бұрын

@@nerychristian ya the elite got rid of that because they DO NOT want communication. They want control. Multiple websites had live chat. Myspace, yahoo, myyearbook.

@jakthebomb

Ай бұрын

I grew up just across the Hudson and got to experience the observation deck of the south tower, yeah... 9/11 changed so much. I remember what it was like waving goodbye to a family member at the Gate of the Newark Airport, back then you didn't need a ticket, and there wasn't a TSA making you take off your shoes.

It's like waking up from a 29-year-long nightmare!

@wutta-do5zy

28 күн бұрын

You ain't kiddin

@BerlingotdeLait678

26 күн бұрын

True.

I was born in December of 1979. I was an 80s kid and I was a 90s teenager. If I could choose to do it all over again, I would in a heartbeat. Thank the LORD, I was lucky to have lived in that era. I wouldn't change it for ANYTHING...

@farwestern99

19 күн бұрын

"Cool kids never have the time..."

@HeizelGonzalez

16 күн бұрын

yeah, me too, we lived on a time when things were simpler.

@dougieboy28

Күн бұрын

In the time of the chimpanzees, I was a monkey....

I remember the late 90's as being a special and formative time. So many great movies and video games in that era. But you still watched and played them with your friends right next to you.

We are in the future now. The new millennia promised us wonder. Opression of digital handcuffs. Humans without humanity. The chords reverberate in my nevous system. I feel at peace now. Thank you this work really means alot to me.

The 90's. The last decent decade.

@RG2k07

Ай бұрын

No social media. Just me and Sonic and Knuckles...

Stunning serenity, a whisper from the past...

@RetrovexAmbient

4 ай бұрын

with plenty more to come 💜

I am actually quite emotional about this. Makes me feel old hearing the old sounds of my childhood playing games and working on my homework.

@JohnVance

3 ай бұрын

Yeah this is almost like caretaker but for millennials

@marcins6071

3 ай бұрын

are you old now ?

I listened to the whole hour and reflected on the 90's. It didn't take long to break down and realize: to remember the 90's is to remember our humanity.

Glad to see others who understand what this means in the comments..was really the golden age...this era now is a shadow age..of teachnology ruling us..our lives in its cage. - child of the 90s..forever nostalgic and grateful.

This music really hits hard, after just a few seconds I knew that I had found a true gem.

@RetrovexAmbient

3 ай бұрын

dziekuje serdecznie! pozdrawiam 💜

@mateuszmalanowski3819

2 ай бұрын

@@RetrovexAmbient 💪

The opening sound reminds me of when I'd go over to my friend's house to play Sim City 2000 and the original Need for Speed. Ah man life was as blissful as this video.

The water, sun and sky....I could float away here forever.

Remember that first time you met the internet? I was lucky enough to be a teen when the golden age of internet and computers was taking place. Everything was so new and exciting. Now even tho it has so much more options and possibilities, I feel like its soul as it was is long gone. Everything is monitored and spied on. You never feel like you got your own world anymore. It was the closest we got to some kind of anarchy in terms of freedom of speech and free to roam wherever we'd like. It wasn't so measured. I will never forget those good old days discovering this fantastic world.

@jonchellis2978

3 ай бұрын

And the only measurement/tracking there really was, was the visitor counter at the bottom of the webpages you visited.

"Nothing works right since Windows 95" - Duckman

@user-nu5du2ux3z

3 ай бұрын

Win95 win98 Windows XP are the peak of golden era. Since Windows vista it's where hell started.

@leonelvolpatti4696

3 ай бұрын

@@user-nu5du2ux3z we never would've expected Windows XP was going to be the last glimpse of hope there'd be.

@energeticyellow1637

3 ай бұрын

windows 7 was good

@tldw8354

3 ай бұрын

@@energeticyellow1637 jepp. i still use it almost every day besides 10 and 11. it is good for some specific purposes

**sobbing uncontrollably while clinging to my palm tree raft in the ocean** "WINDOWS!!!!!! WIIIIIIIINDOWS, I"M SORRY WINDOWS!!!!!"

@RetrovexAmbient

3 ай бұрын

LMAO 😂

@jonathanshepherd4439

Ай бұрын

iI understood that reference!

@knowledgedumpingservice2435

11 күн бұрын

DOGZ, I'M SORRY, CATZ, ODDBALLZ-----MICROSOFT WORD------WHERE IN TIME IS CARMEN SANDIEGO? ZZT----MEGAZEUX, JEREMY LAMAR GAMES-------------------------------------------------PLAYSTATION ONE!

Say a prayer for the early 80s babies. Our teenage years were incredible. 😓

Was born at the very END of 1999 but at least I was able to still experience these last pieces of it. Parents gave me their old computer for me to play jump-start learning games and such, ran on Windows 95.

@Scynime

4 ай бұрын

I also remember back in 2007 my school gave away their old computers, I was one of the lucky kids to get one from them. Those ran on Windows Professional which I never knew was a thing.

@Chico9569

3 ай бұрын

Damn I was born in 95 and I don't even remember that. I grew up with windows millenium/2000 2007 you were 7/8 years old, computers are a pretty advanced concept for a kid that age I didn't even know how to work a smartphone till I was 20

@tldw8354

3 ай бұрын

@@Chico9569windows Milllenium was probably the worst windows ever! oh my ..

@shadow7988

2 ай бұрын

@@Chico9569 Kids are wicked good learners if you allow them to be. I was not only using computers, but even assembling them, when I was like 8 because we had them in the home way earlier than most for work reasons. It's harder for people to learn now because everything is so easy and convenient, no one is pushed to think anymore.

@OMA2k

2 ай бұрын

​@@Scynime I think you mean Windows 2000 Professional (Win 95 and 98 didn't have Pro versions).

This is how you transcend content to become art

@acetaminophetus

3 ай бұрын

Please give us PS1/PS2 ambience, the people crave.

Brings me back to 1995/96. I was 10 years ago. My uncle had just bought a Pentium 66mhz PC with a 3D acceleratior card. He let me play Tomb Raider for the very first time, showed me this new thing called the Internet... Kids today with their iPads will never experience nostalgia like us 90s kids! Long live the future!!!😢

@SproutyPottedPlant

28 күн бұрын

Hey don’t diss the iPad 😅 it has apps that lets you make music like this ❤

This is ambient perfection for me! This may sound a bit weird to some but I always found the aesthetics of Windows 95 & 98 to be peaceful, nostalgic, soul healing, meditating, and aesthetically pleasing from their startup sounds, sound effects, colorful wallpapers, themes, the small but colorful games, and even the sampler discs that had alot of personality put into em seeing as the internet wasn't so obtainable at the time. Sometimes I am here mentally.

Two hundred THOUSAND views... Thats absolutely astronomical, im flabbergasted

@scsi_joe

2 ай бұрын

Just goes to show, the demand is huge

@mack7170

2 ай бұрын

I've listened to this at least once every day while at work. That opening sound never gets old. Please make more!

@smon4164

2 ай бұрын

Well deserved, you've captured the spirit of an entire generation with this I think.

@dalar2

2 ай бұрын

you deserve it man, this is wayy better than I was expecting

@RetrovexAmbient

2 ай бұрын

welp, you'll guys have a new episode to listen to next week 💜 and then after that we got an april fools episode :P

It's seems you entered in some kind of portal and traveled to the past, but everything there disappeared, its only you and this computer in a totally empty dimension.

Instantly I am reminded by those Windows 95 "with Plus!" themes. I remember the "Inside Your Computer" theme, with the glass bauble screensaver slowly moving around. And the 256 colour "Nature" theme with the cougar.

@RetrovexAmbient

3 ай бұрын

you just gave me a great idea for an episode 😳

3rd night in a row now that I have returned here. This has soothed my soul, not only is it an ambient mix of relaxation but pulls out the comforting notes of windows 95, the days gone by and an era close to my heart, 1995 and the startup sound which, in my mind, came to symbolise the wonderful decade of the 1990s ♥️

@ImperfectCitizen

3 ай бұрын

Welcome back fellow 86'r. Much love on your journey!

@RetrovexAmbient

3 ай бұрын

This really means a lot to me, I've never experienced this much feedback regarding my works and honestly I can't wait to show you more of what i have in store for the future💜

@reevesc1986

3 ай бұрын

@@ImperfectCitizen and to you too, fellow 86’r!

@reevesc1986

3 ай бұрын

@@RetrovexAmbientwe can’t wait to hear and see more of you wonderful work ♥️

Fantastic video! Please consider doing similar videos on these retro sounds: 1. Windows 98 2. Playstation 1 or 2

@RetrovexAmbient

4 ай бұрын

Always happy to take recommendations! And im definitely doing more windows stuff , cant wait to show you all what i got cooking up 💜

@doomrevolver8387

4 ай бұрын

yaaas PS2 intro sound plz@@RetrovexAmbient

@SproutyPottedPlant

3 ай бұрын

Dreamcast?

@crystaledwards8854

2 ай бұрын

Yes, PS1 startup music, and Spyro games music 💜 That would be wonderful.

I didnt get the chance to experience the times of win98, win95, winXP. But from what I can tell from these comments, it truly was the golden age of computing. God bless those are experienced it. I only wish I can experience something similar.

I've had this on loop for hours. Perfect soundscape for reading scifi and making levels in Doom Builder.

@RetrovexAmbient

4 ай бұрын

Im super glad to hear that! Brings me joy that you like it so much thank you💜

@doomrevolver8387

4 ай бұрын

absolutely, this brings back childhood memories of my first PC with Windows 98, playing games like minesweeper while listening to hours of music @@RetrovexAmbient

@ivanrolim

3 ай бұрын

Doom Builder and.....Edmap, why not?

When i hear this sound, i imagine myself on a white sandy beach. On a sunny day with dark blue skies. The sun almost appearing fully white. With the sounds of calm ocean waves hitting the shore. I feel at calm of the tranquility of this scene. As i stand in the ocean, i look back to the shore and seeing my family smiling back at me. Appearing proud of my accomplishments. I realize, with this song playing, this is the definition of heaven. ❤️

We are longing for those golden times but today might be the same golden period, another one, before something else comes as social media and other things did. You might imagine that you have come back from the future and this very moment is the "past" and you are living in your memories one more time. Complicated but interesting :)

@winlover37

3 ай бұрын

Ah the human condition. Honestly if there were a matrix I could jump into and just live in the 90s and 2000s for eternity, I would.

I don't think it's enough to say that this vid merely conveys nostalgia of a time long gone. It also conveys the notion of a future whose promise was unfulfilled. Not simply because of what world events have transpired since 2000, but how technology has changed our world for better and worse. I supposed it was naïve to believe that technology would only positively benefit humanity, not highlight and augment the best and worst of humanity. Well done!

Its like someone rolled back time, and kept me in a happy nostalgia for 1 hour.

I run Linux and the win95 sound is my startup sound. It's one of the best ones ever.

I find it strange young people are so nostalgic for this era of computing. I was in my teens when 95 launched and it made using a computer feel less lonely. Now there was something to look at and listen to, instead of that black void with a prompt. However it didn't change the fact that it was still a lonely experience. There were no MP3's, no USB drives and internet was too expensive. If you wanted to share something you would have to call a friend and meetup. Basically the computer was left alone for most of the day and the interaction you had was exploring the software or games you owned.

@geologick

3 ай бұрын

That's precisely why they're nostalgic. It was a form of entertainment and discovery, without any attempt at taking over every aspect of life. It was a source of curiosity and creativity, largely untouched by corporate greed or algorithms. People could log on for 20 minutes a day and be satisfied, didn't feel tied to it or drawn in to the point of addiction. They were able to enjoy life outside the computer with their friends, who were doing the same, untethered. They didn't have to wait for a friend to look up from a screen to gain their attention; they were already present in the moment with them. The computer was a fun and exciting device during that time, not the exhausting source of negativity and obsession it is today.

My first immersion into tech was win95 now after the better part of a career in tech this is like seeing the porch light in the distance

I'm going to school for cybersecurity and I was born in 1986. Oh how I yearn for a simpler time.. Computers are getting so high-tech and fancy that it hurts my brain sometimes trying to learn and understand these concepts. I miss my Windows 95 and my Duke Nukem 3D. Back when we ran ipv4 and one firewall and nobody was concerned about hackers. Now we run IPv6 and 25 firewalls in every freaking location, server, client, host device, IoTs, cloud, etc. If it has access to the internet we're slapping a firewall on it because redundancy and hackers!! 😂 I never thought I would miss the days when I would play Starcraft over dial-up internet and hope nobody tried to call the house for 5 hours. 😅

The way this transports me back to my childhood. Wish I could have those days forever

What I wouldn't give to go back to that sacred era. Sadly time marches relentlessy on and you never know a good thing until its gone. I just feel grateful to have been around back then.

Even now, when I turn on one of those old machines it brings me back a sense of wonder and happiness, almost like something magic is about to happen. A new world in front of me and endless new things to discover.

1982 checking in! The sounds of my youth...

Please make an 8-10 hour version of this. I’m begging you. This would be one of the best sleep tracks I’ve ever heard.

It's late and I found this video to calm down. ❤ It's truly emotionally in the comments. 😢🙏 It's good to see that I'm not alone with the feeling that the internet has a lot more soul back in the 90s. I was born in 1989 and windows 95 was my start into the future. ❤ I miss the old internet, it was more comfortable and.. Well, smaller actually. I love to see the world connected, but in some way it went wrong. Our generation should be thankful and aware of what we had, what for a privilege to had a childhood without smartphones, just computers ❤ thank you

No complaining at all about how relaxing this is, like existing in a chamber of voxels. Beautiful work.

The feelings this brings up in me are incomprehensibly strong. Got tears in my eyes.

Wow, this creates a temptation to reinstall Windows 95. 🪟I always loved these sounds from the golden age of computers. Thank you for creating this. 🙏

Hearing that familiar boot up sound gave me chills and took me back to when I played 3D Dinosaur Adventure on Windows 95 at 8 years old. Thank you for making this. Gonna meditate to it and imagine myself back in better times.

This music distinctly remind me of how as a 90s girl, loading up my Windows 95 setup and seeing a graphic bootup visual of Poseidon's Odyssey play before my eyes and how that made me cry because I thought it was the most magical thing on earth....back when the internet was truly a magical place for discovery, and not the dumpster heap it is today.

This track takes you back to the golden days of the '90s, when hope and dreams filled the air. Every beat, every melody evokes a time when the world seemed full of possibilities and people believed in a brighter future. It's a musical echo of the carefree optimism that defined that era. It feels like reliving the endless summer nights of youth, with music as a faithful companion and hearts brimming with longing and joy. Thank you for uploading this true masterpiece - it gave me an hour of memories from the past, most of which I had forgotten in the hectic days of 2024. I miss those old days and the people who are no longer here with me.

The good thing: No one can take away your memory, you once made, by experiancing this yourself😊 Listening to this, i feel this is calming down way more than any other audio stuff. And the fact that you instantly feel relaxed just by hearing these sounds kind of proves how relaxed the time was back then.

@RuSosan

2 ай бұрын

Time takes it all away eventually. First (and surprisingly fast) through preferential distortion via the Mandela effect, then by age and fading mental faculties.

This is amazing and takes me back to a time when I was still young.

@RetrovexAmbient

4 ай бұрын

I'm so glad it does! 💜

@marcins6071

3 ай бұрын

are you very old now ?

@darthhatchet

3 ай бұрын

@marcins6071 yes I'm in my 40s

@marcins6071

3 ай бұрын

@@darthhatchet me too

What's wild is that I still vividly remember a time before KZread... people often mention social media sites like Facebook, but KZread has had an even bigger impact on everything imo.

man this is some of the most beautiful soundscapes i've listened to in all my life, magnificent work mate

This reminds me of friends and close family members whom have become distant memories. Great times were had where exploration and curiosity with a sense for outdoor adventure was a driving force. This is truly an amazing and original piece. Well done.

Gonna age myself by saying this; but I remember the first time I used Win 95 when it was a current OS. The difference from Windows 3.11 was mind blowing. Great piece of work to get a really good ambient track while making so many sounds and tones recognisable.

@RetrovexAmbient

4 ай бұрын

Ill age myself too haha, I grew up with Windows XP and moving to windows 7 was definitely something my young mind was still comprehending, but never had a chance to use 95, i tried to stay true to its original sound, its a really soothing startup.💜

@FakefulandDisgracedSlaveClass

4 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, the leap from 3.1 to win95 was insane. It felt like the future and guess what? It was, because windows today still has that same fundamental feel that was introduced in 95.

@richardd9634

4 ай бұрын

I remember having to upgrade from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95 because I wanted to play Discworld and it needed Win 95. My dad brought home an installation CD from his office and we did the upgrade - it was so exciting! Our computer at the time only just met the minimum specs for installation. I was blown away at how clean and modern it looked, plus that startup sound was like a warm "welcome to the future of technology" every time. I don't think I've ever felt the same way about installing a new OS since then. Wonderfully precious memories that I will cherish forever.

@theophilegaudin2329

4 ай бұрын

@@FakefulandDisgracedSlaveClass Yes. In retrospect, Windows 95 made history. We were living in the actual future the first time we started our computers with that OS.

It's pretty good. I can easily imagine playing "Master of Orion II" with this track in background and it would not feel out of place... well except in battle, but I mean for the managing part of the game. It hits all the good vibes. Good work, Retrovex.

So new yet nostalgic, so haunting yet familiar, so mysterious and yet home. Brilliant work! An introvert story of new age music from last 30 years.

We will never get a future like this ever again. The internet changed everything....forever.

@jameswilkes451

3 ай бұрын

Just wait till VR and quantum computing comes out. Might be many similar "golden ages" yet to come.

@GoreTorn16

3 ай бұрын

You may be right my friend.@@jameswilkes451

The Win95 startup will always hit me HARD with nostalgia. What an iconic sound. No wonder, as it was composed as a 5 second song by nobody else than Brian Eno himself. This is a fantastic version. Love everything about this!

So good! You found just the right mix of sounds being recognizable but still sounds like an awesome ambient piece :)

This is amazing. Deserves to be pressed onto vinyl, honestly.

Listening to this and reminiscing about the 90s makes me feel like that decade was probably the apex of the human race

Вот я и нашёл, музыку своего детства.. Спасибо тебе уважаемый, в современном мире безумной скачки, необходим тихий угол гармонии и спокойствия!

As soon as I saw the title of the video, I was like, 'Oh yes, I'm gonna love this,' but this was perhaps even better than expected; really nicely and seamlessly put together. Also, there's just something about classic Windows sounds and ambience that's on another level of both bliss and nostalgia.

I've been going through a lot recently and this took me back to a simpler time in life. Remembering things I have forgotten. It's been 10 minutes and I'm sitting here with my headphones on staring off into the distance. I feel like these are spiritual sounds of emotion, we've always resonated with them, humans have just perfected their presence... From ancient tribes, to biblical stories, we're captivated by harmonious frequencies. I'm 38 minutes in. Thank you. Some people don't always need Church, or a trip, they just need peace. I've made it guys

When Windows 95 was released, I didn't have a PC because it was way beyond my means. And I didn't use it either. I got to know and use a PC about 12 years ago, and I started with w7. I can't put into words what I feel when I hear and listen to this masterpiece, I just get emotional and feel good and wonderful sensations and feelings.

So calming, definitely puts you back in that time, another amazing soundscape Retrovex!

@RetrovexAmbient

4 ай бұрын

💜🙏 thank you sincerely!!

We all miss it, the past...I miss being a kid. I was in 2-4th grade when Windows 95 was out, it was like this forbidden technology...so strange, so interesting you know.

Wow, I'm blown away by this! I thought somebody is just paying around with some old computer beeping sounds, but boy! What a a magnificent track that is, so majestic, deep and profound! This is one of my all time favourite ambient music soundscape, a masterpiece.

@RetrovexAmbient

Ай бұрын

Hahah thats actually episode 1, beeping and boops inspired by tron. And thank you! 💙

First computer I used was a Tandy 1000 in the mid 80’s. I was 21 in 1995. The 90’s were a great decade…not as good as my 80’s, but right there. You 90’s kids were the last generation to not be completely consumed by electronics and the internet…you still went outside to play.

One of the best ambient soundtracks I have heard in some time, subbed! I love you didn't lean too far into the nostalgia. The tone is there, but not tacky or annoying in the least.

At first I resisted... now I listen every time I wake up

I'm a child who is not a child anymore, born in 1999 I never had a pot-bellied computer, I didn’t have Windows 95. My journey began using an old laptop from 2005 and Windows Vista on board. but I understand all the people here who grew up in the 80s and 90s, because I feel exactly the same feelings of loss of something bright, rainbow, cool and free, I feel the loss of a bright future that has not come. I'm with you guys ♥

@GLXY23

7 күн бұрын

Same here, born in 99 and i had windows xp before Vista. Even then this does feel nostalgic.

@kuremusakura4471

5 күн бұрын

1999 here too (however Vista came out in 2007). Our first family computer was a XP one in 2004... and well yeah, I'm like the rest of gen Z feeling like we're entering some sort of ultimate dark age in everything

@user-ho9mt5yr6n

5 күн бұрын

@@kuremusakura4471 Unfortunately, it's true. art is a reflection of humanity the worse the arts get, the dumber and more unaware the population becomes. what happens to art in 2024? Dune 2 is still the highest grossing movie that came out in 2024... for a second, it came out 6 months ago..... it's just an endless disappointment to the movie industry...

@kuremusakura4471

4 күн бұрын

@user-ho9mt5yr6n Didn't see it but I don't see what's the link. It's true that we have a serious problem in applied arts (design, architecture, etc) ; however there's still plenty of good films being released

I love being a 90s kid. It's awesome.

I looked for this kind of ambient for many years, I even tried to make some but without any result. But now I finally found it. Thank you for making it! :)