Do you remember Windows 95? Cast your mind back, waaay back in time... ah yes, I sure remember; in fact I was running pre-release builds of "Chicago" for nearly two years before it was finally released. One of the key cool new things in this groundbreaking OS was support for multimedia. What a concept! Previous to Win95 there was Video for Windows, an add-on to Windows 3.1, but with Win95 for the first time the OS itself had support for audio and video and graphics and so on... big stuff. And to demonstrate these new capabilities, Microsoft bundled a video with the OS, and it just happened to be Edie Brickell singing Good Times. I remember that so well, double-clicking that movie, and watching it play. I liked the song and the video (and the artist!) but I loved the way it just worked, kind of like a peek into the future.
Just the other day I came across this very video on YouTube, and it took me back with incredible nostalia:
