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Two decades is a long time. 1995 was a completely different world: the DVD had just become a thing, the internet had gone private and Star Trek was still a TV franchise, not a film series. It was also the year two beloved American pop cultural products came together in the most awkward of couplings.

This nearly hour-long "cyber sitcom" feature Friends stars Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston teaching the world how to use Microsoft's hot new product, Windows 95, which turns 20 today. (In case you're not old enough: Windows 95 was a graphic-based operating system that first introduced the start button and the task bar and achieved a standard of success that hasn't been achieved by Microsoft since, never mind Windows 10. And in case you're that young, Friends was a funnier version of How I Met Your Mother without an annoying voice-over).

Windows 95 truly was a revelation, taking huge strides forward from Windows 3.1 at a time when the internet was just becoming available to the world. And Friends had just burst on the scene the year before, on its way to becoming the rerun-supported sitcom behemoth that it remains today.

So then who better to tell you how to use Windows 95 than Rachel and Chandler in this cringeworthy hour-long ad?