In the software world, there’s Bob. If you don’t remember him, Bob was Microsoft’s 1995 answer ... you’ll need to boot Windows 3.1 — this is 1995, remember. To log in you had to knock ...

An alternate interface for Windows from Microsoft that was designed for people afraid of computers. Introduced in 1995 and discontinued the following year, Bob came with a word processor ...

Windows was still pretty darn unfamiliar to people back then, so in 1995, Microsoft came up with a more user-friendly interface called Microsoft Bob (codename Utopia). Bob was a complete ...