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The Museum of Endangered Sounds
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#12Some of these are making a comeback, like vinyl and Nintendo cartridges.
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#13Where are the Commodore 64 SID chip tunes? Never Ending Story, Rambo, Green Beret, Attack of the Mutant Camels. Of course none of those sounds are 'endangered', just nostalgia.
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#14Voltaire said that in the future the most valuable thing will be silence.
That was my first thought when reading this headline: do they preserve silence? But he's absolutely right. After light pollution, noise pollution is probably the second most ignored type of pollution, and quite important imo.
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#15Anyone else miss the sound from old stepper motor hard drives? Like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy3uWRuQXl0#t=4m30s
I've been tempted to write something the monitors kernel io stats and softly beeps at me, but maybe those days should just stay behind us...
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#16How about the sound of children playing outside? The sound of a baseball popping into a well-worn leather mitt still exists, but is becoming awfully rare. It ain't tech, but it's a byproduct of tech.
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#18Insert a dubstep track around any of these and you have a fair shot at making it in today's music scene.
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#19How about the sound of children playing outside? The sound of a baseball popping into a well-worn leather mitt still exists, but is becoming awfully rare. It ain't tech, but it's a byproduct of tech.
It's at least as much a byproduct of bad city planning and car-centric design, I'd say.
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#20If you turn all the sounds on, the madness-inducing animation makes more sense.