If you ever wrestled with getting online in the mid-to-late ‘90s, you probably remember the Windows 95 Internet Connection Wizard. Dropped in August ‘95 with the OS launch, it was Microsoft’s attempt to make getting on the internet less painful—and let’s be real, it was still a mess by today’s standards. You’d fire it up, punch in your dial-up info (yes, actual phone numbers), pick an ISP or manually enter settings, and pray to the modem gods. Updates through OSR2 in ‘96 and ‘97 made it a bit smoother, adding better TCP/IP support and basic modem diagnostics. It wasn’t fancy, but it got the job done for millions of first-time internet users—right before they heard that classic dial-up screech.