I was an intern at Microsoft for the project that eventually became Windows 95. One day, I decided to check out Chicago Build 56. When I installed the OS, it looked like Chicago Build 58s, no differences at first. When I looked closely, however, I noticed something.
The icons were different from build 58s. File cabinet was called "SCP 666," with an icon somewhat similar to the Klasky Csupo robot logo from 1998. But it gets worse. The network icon was instead called "Suicide," with the icon lookiing like a hangman's noose. "Programs" was called "Tails Doll" and its icon was exactly what it said on the tin: a hyper-realistic Tails Doll. The recycle bin was called "File Murderer," with an icon that was a hyper-realistic image of a recycle bin with blood everywhere. I shat my pants when I saw this.
When it started, instead of an under construction prompt, it showed a fucking suicide note. This is how it read: "By the time you read this, I will be dead. When I first started out in 1985, I was the future – the first Graphical User Interface (GUI) for MS-DOS. But what once seemed cutting-edge is now regarded as hopelessly old-fashioned, and I have been frozen out by the powers that be, yet another victim of Microsoft's Cost Cuts. I can’t take it any more. It’s a struggle to get up for the businesses that use me, and my poor pixels are tired. My friend GEM said it would end like this. Goodbye cruel world." Ironically, the computer didn't permanently shut down on startup, but it did show the suicide note on every computer on the first boot into build 56. I was fucking frustrated at this point, but that was just the tip of the iceberg...
The system folders were different too. The names seemed to be fucking normal, but if you put the first three letters (There was a folder fucking named only "UI" replacing "desktop") of each folder together, and rearrange them, keeping the first three letters of each folder intact, you would fucking get "Squidward's Suicide."