Museum of Endangered Sounds
savethesounds.info
savethesounds.info
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.
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.
Other fun sounds are hearing your computer change the background hum/buzz of imperfectly grounded speakers. There was a very clear difference in the quality of the speaker's silence depending on if a GIF was animating, a web page loading, or some other computationally distinct event.
The great thing about mic cables picking it up is that it's usually easy to narrow down who the offender was. :-)
He goes to remote natural areas and records what they sound like. It's relaxing and can be fun atmospheric sound to listen to.
67 points on HN can kill a typical wordpress blog.
I'm making a list of things that I did in my childhood tha the future people (mostly my child at the moment) will think are odd or bizarre.
The best one so far is the lack of mobile phones for each person; we just had a landline per house. And even then that was a party line shared between different homes so you couldn't always make or recieve a call.
I have a similar idea jotted down on my things-to-make list :) My idea is to create a library of sounds that are part of our daily life today, not necessarily things that have disappeared or are rapidly disappearing. Like a shutterstock of sounds :)
My one gripe is that it uses the crummy Atari 2600 version of the Space Invaders sound effects, when the analog-synthesized arcade soundtrack is the one that everyone remembers.
It's beautiful. Reminds me of some of my favorite futurebeat music.
On another note though, I was thinking that this could easily translate (no pun intended) to endangered languages