Cool article. I do take issue with one thing though. The author thinking that it was common to use Windows 95 in 640x480 16-colour VGA. I don't think I've ever seen anybody do that except just after installation whilst they were scrambling to install proper SVGA drivers. Even Windows 3.1 I used in 800x600 16-bit (64K colours), well before Windows 95 came out. But I'm pretty sure that at least 256 colour mode was available to virtually anybody whose hardware was capable of running Windows 95.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_4.0_(multitasking)