The Museum of Endangered Sounds

I appreciate the effort, but there's no way stuff like "Space Invaders" and "Pac Man" sound effects are endangered. It'll be around forever via emulation and IP-value extraction (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Bandai-Namco-Flashback-Blast-Console-...), at least until "retro" stops being cool.

Now, the cacophony of a popular video game arcade...

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Post by jimmaswell » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 1:47 PM UTC

The sounds of the analog telephone system: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f63uCpov5Lc

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Post by tomc1985 » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 1:55 PM UTC

tablespoon wrote: post #4

I appreciate the effort, but there's no way stuff like "Space Invaders" and "Pac Man" sound effects are endangered. It'll be around forever via emulation and IP-value extraction (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Bandai-Namco-Flashback-Blast-Console-... ), at least until "retro" stops being cool. Now, the cacophony of a popular video game arcade...

Yeah, I have multiple sets of some of these sounds in WAV format, as do many others. Hard to believe anything about them is "endangered"

In fact, why isn't this site providing a downloadable link to these files? If he is really interested in preservation, they should provide a download link instead of paragraphs of fluff.

Because the really endangered concept here is the notion of "files", which anyone publishing anything on the cloud seems to want to do away with.

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Post by mojuba » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 1:56 PM UTC

DoingIsLearning wrote: post #3

My personal favourite on obscure electronics sounds: http://www.w2sjw.com/radio_sounds.html

Now that's a museum, thank you!

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Post by mparramon » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 2:17 PM UTC

tmikaeld wrote: post #2

Where's that 56k modem? :-( Thought it looked familiar, 9th time this is posted on HN.

It's there, 5th row from the bottom, 3rd column :-)

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Post by dvh » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 2:20 PM UTC

Voltaire said that in the future the most valuable thing will be silence.

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Post by tablespoon » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 2:38 PM UTC

tomc1985 wrote: post #6

tablespoon wrote: post #4

I appreciate the effort, but there's no way stuff like "Space Invaders" and "Pac Man" sound effects are endangered. It'll be around forever via emulation and IP-value extraction (e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Bandai-Namco-Flashback-Blast-Console-... ), at least until "retro" stops being cool. Now, the cacophony of a popular video game arcade...

Yeah, I have multiple sets of some of these sounds in WAV format, as do many others. Hard to believe anything about them is "endangered" In fact, why isn't this site providing a downloadable link to these files? If he is really interested in preservation, they should provide a download link instead of paragraphs of fluff. Because the really endangered concept here is the notion of "files", which anyone publishing any…

> Yeah, I have multiple sets of some of these sounds in WAV format, as do many others. Hard to believe anything about them is "endangered"

I would say sounds that exist mainly as WAVs on someone's computer are properly endangered.

The point I was making is that some of these sounds are from things (mainly video games) that will be endlessly (and easily) recycled forever, so they aren't actually endangered. Others, from formerly ubiquitous but now utterly obsolete hardware and software, are truly engendered.