Nice. Hearing the dialup sound got me nostalgic and I found this site, which was intensely satisfying: http://goughlui.com/legacy/soundofmodems/index.htm
Oh man, thanks for that. The v.22bis (2400bps) one made me flashback hard.
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#12The tetris song has been permently engraved in my mind since childhood. The only one out of place is the Nokia phone sounds, we all know they will still exist long after humanity's demise.
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#13I recognise most of those, but what the heck is a Eurosignal?
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#14Try simultaneously playing "Typewriter", "Vinyl Turntable", "VCR Rewinding", "Windows95 Startup", "Pac-Man", and "Dot Matrix Printer".
It's beautiful. Reminds me of some of my favorite futurebeat music.
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#15That was fun, although several were not quite like the ones in my memory. One of the sounds that I'd like to hear again is that little triple "dit" you would hear on a radio when a cell phone was nearby. I never knew exactly how it was made -- undoubtedly the network saying hello to the phone -- or what that sound was called.
This answers why - http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/32830/why-doe...
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#16That was fun, although several were not quite like the ones in my memory. One of the sounds that I'd like to hear again is that little triple "dit" you would hear on a radio when a cell phone was nearby. I never knew exactly how it was made -- undoubtedly the network saying hello to the phone -- or what that sound was called.
It's partly because of that sound that musicians have to actually turn their phones off during recording. If you're too close to the board that clicking gets picked up.
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#17I recognise most of those, but what the heck is a Eurosignal?
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#18I wish I could add the 'Samsung Whistle' to this list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5h411OcttA
Every time I hear it on public transport (never anywhere else) it gives me terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I wish this sound to be extinct.
There is also some incoming mail sound on Mapple computers that I am spared at the moment - probably because all the Mapple products near me have upgraded to Zirconium Mountain Frog (or whatever it is) - but that sound seemed against what you would really need for concentration and productivity.
Some of the legacy sounds in this gallery were rather good - the Nokia sound wasn't thrown together, neither was the Windows 95 startup sound.
There are reasons for this, for instance, with Windows 95 'multi-media' was A Big Thing. Before then a sound card wasn't what you would have on a machine used for business porpoises, plus, before plug'n'play, you would have to spend at least a day installing it in such a way you still had some of your 640K free. With Windows 95 and the Altec Lansing speakers that came bundled with your PC It Just Worked.
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Me too. I wonder whether it got censored. Copywright stuff maybe?