95-tan
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| Also Known As: | Win95, Chicago |
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| Original Creator: | Unknown |
| First appearance: | Unknown |
| OS Personified: | Windows 95 versions 4.00.950-4.03.1212 |
| OS Developer: | Microsoft |
| First Released: | 24 August 1995 |
| Latest Stable Release: | v. OEM Service Release 2.1 1996 |
One of the more popular OS-tans, 95-tan is depicted as a traditional lady from the early modern era of Japan. This is much due to her status as an older version of modern Windows. She is a gentle-looking brown haired woman in a kimono, with a hair ribbon showing the four Windows colors. The pattern of her kimono is based on the file hana256.bmp, which was used as a desktop wallpaper pattern in the Japanese version of Windows. Her costume is a traditional kimono and a hakama of Japan, and she wears thick sandals, geta on her feet. These are women's college student's typical clothes as seen in the earliest period during the course of the modernization in Japan (from the Meiji period to the Taisho period), and the cultural background for the comparison of the modernization of Windows to modernization of Japan is seen there.
95-tan has one of the more complicated personalities of the OS-tans. Her most common activities are drinking tea, serving meals or doing other housework. One recurring theme is her unfamiliarity with newer, post Win-95 technologies, such as USB devices and broadband internet connections. While appearing to be one of the more stable OS-tans, she is also often depicted wielding a katana in an aggressive manner, especially toward the Mac-tans. This symbolizes the fact that it was her generation of operating systems that Microsoft finally achieved full dominance of the personal computer market. One comic strip shows her talking to other OS-tans about beating up MacOS; and 95 is commonly portrayed with an overwhelming hatred of the Macintosh OS-Tans, particularly her bitter rival MacOS-tan. Due the popular belief that Mozilla Firefox is incompatible with Windows 95, several OS-tan four-panel comics have been made portraying other OS-tans encouraging 95-tan to think in Russian! and 95-tan's inability to internalize the Russian language enough to accomplish this.
As with most of the original OS-tans, 95-tan has often had her share of ecchi and hentai-related media. One of the rare straight OS-tans, 95-tan often plays the role of dominatrix over males, particularly Toshiaki. Despite being depicted with a bull whip in a few hentai images, she is not included in as many images as 2k-tan or XP-tan. However, she is often seen as a mother figure over other figures, disciplining troublemakers such as 95-kun.
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