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As the little girl says in the movie Poltergeist, "They're baaack!" Only this time, we're not talking about nebulous pictures in the clouds of your Windows 95 startup screen; we're finding hidden pictures in those holograms on the boxes!
Holy Holography!
There are at least three different Windows 95 holograms. You'll find one on the retail Upgrade pack,
another on the "full version" OEM bundle, and the third on a special limited edition package, of which
only 3,000 were reportedly made, and given away to attendees at the August 24th product launch in
Redmond.
Because I have so far been unable to take a decent "2-D" photo of a hologram, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to locate the hologram images on the Windows 95 packages.
Once you do, here's what you'll see in the Upgrade Package: What's that in there? Yes, it's a baby! (By the looks of things, a Mulatto -- how politically correct.) And look! As you turn the box under a bright light, the baby raises his or her arm, smiles, touches the screen, and the Windows 95 logo disappears in a spiral. But wait! Turn the picture to an extreme angle and a new image shows up where the baby's head was. First, you'll see the baby's hair turn into one of those triangle-shaped hats, and then an object that looks like a large smoking pipe appears in the foreground (and, believe it or not, that's not because *I've* been smoking anything!). Turn the image a little farther and, by golly, a Rembrandt-like figure with light brown hair, a beard, brown clothes and round glasses (John Lennon?) appears. (My associate claims it looks more like Robin Hood.) And if that's not the face of an 800-pound gorilla in the background, then you tell me.
95: the new number of the Beast?
On to image #2: the OEM pack. Like the first image, this one contains the usual anti-piracy symbols
(if you have very sharp eyes, notice the letters MICROSOFT repeating along a diagonal angle on on
each line and the larger number 95 visible at the bottom of the hologram. But the interesting part is the
photo in the hologram. Sure, it's another baby, putting his or her hand up to a very large monitor
displaying the ever-popular Flying Windows screensaver. But what's up when we turn the image to an
extreme angle. It's an adult person facing the other way, apparently using a Microsoft mouse (at the
extreme left of the image, if you're following along) while wearing a snorkle and diving mask. A
rubber-suit fetish in the graphics department in Redmond?
Ahem. Image #3, the Limited Edition, I'm still looking at. When I find something, I'll let you know. I hear that bright sunlight is the best way to view a hologram. This could take a while....
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