Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

I found some old Windows 95 CDs in the attic, so I created a virtual machine to remind myself how far we’ve come. I was very amused to see this in the setup:

“Quick View - Enables you to preview a document without opening it.”

Those of us who use Leopard recognize something similar.

“Using Quick Look in Leopard, you can view the contents of a file without even opening it.”

I don’t remember using Quick View in Windows 95, but I do find Quick Look in Leopard to be very useful. What’s most interesting to me is that, even with all of the advancements over the past dozen years or so, many of the core ideas behind computing are the same.