Each dog had a specific personality, so generally you’d pick the one that was suited to your own. I guess it was the novelty of it all.Īnyway! Dogz! So the idea here is that you would adopt one of five highly animated dogs and then raise and train them. Today it seems like the opposite - we’re all about streamlining and simplifying our workspace. We were kind of nuts for overloading our computers with all sorts of gimmicky programs that would slow everything down to a crawl. It belonged to the virtual pet craze of the 1990s, but also to the “things doing unproductive stuff on your desktop” craze that was infecting a lot of Windows machines. So when I went to work in the computer center help room on our college campus, I found out that everyone had been bowled over by this program called Dogz for Windows 95.ĭogz wasn’t a game, not really. One of the effects of the internet invasion was that software was easier than ever to share and download, especially with all of the different trial programs out there. We endured all kinds of long website loading times on very slow modems to see the glory of the world wide web, and it was both strange and glorious. Back in the mid-1990s, the internet was only really starting to take hold in homes, and on our college campus, it had finally arrived in the fall of 1995.
