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There was an easter egg in Windows 95 for clouds.mid.[1] You had to create a folder and rename it a few times, and then it would play the song[2]. Even hearing it now takes me back to a simpler time... [1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69883/musical-easter-egg... [2] https://soundcloud.com/brianorr/clouds
It just didn't get more Windows than Canyon.mid. 90s corporate Memphis in musical form, the kind of thing you'd hear over a 3D computer animation -- or opening a corporate training video. Its full title was "A Trip Through the Grand Canyon" or similar; no surprise, that was also the subject of many a 3D computer animation back in the day.
In the 90s, the relevant user-facing OSes for computers were MacOS and Windows. In the 2020s, the relevant user-facing OSes for computers are MacOS and Windows. (However, to be fair, all the rage is now in phones, where Windows is surprisingly non-existent. Apple's OS is still the other one, though.)
Its all because RMS decided to eat that thing from his foot that one time. The world just couldn't stomach GNU/Linux after that. :P
It has Linux kernel, but I am not sure about the GNU.
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I miss those good times when developers were given freedom to do things like these.
Except that it increases software complexity, possibly bugs as well as security vulnerabilities. I definitely don’t won’t this kind of “features” in software I use.
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> Midi is an instrumental only declarative format. There's nothing stopping you from using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/Ab4zUFKxVpk?t=87
Here's a much weirder example of using midi data to generate singing: https://youtu.be/ZY6h3pKqYI0
Interesting to think that playing MIDI without any additional software is no longer a feature you can get out of the box these days (at least on macOS, YMMV).
Today it's easier to do it in software.