Your own preferences and computing ideology aside, Windows 95 is an undeniable icon. For hundreds of millions of people, Windows 95 was personal computing, spanning the inscrutable crudeness of the Windows 3.1 era and the soothing balm of Windows 98. It was inescapable. It was, possibly, the first operating system you used at home.
Hmmm, not really...

I know my household was unusual in that we already owned more than one computer per capita in the mid-90s, but still, my little mind boggles.
Hmmm, not really...

I know my household was unusual in that we already owned more than one computer per capita in the mid-90s, but still, my little mind boggles.