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Obsolete Sounds
- wan9yu 6mo ago[flagged]
- aledevv 6mo agoAhh... what memories... the legendary Pac-Man of the 80s (video games category). I was a kid, but I remember it like it was yesterday.
- binaryturtle 6mo agoNeeds a recording of an Amiga reading in a floppy disk... and the floppy drive just waiting to be feed. Those were the sounds! :) (The interface on the website is a bit confusing to use, IMHO)
- chriswarbo 6mo agoI love that Amiga emulators (FS/E/Win)UAE have an option to emulate the floppy drive sound. Very nostalgic, but also useful as an indication that something's happening!
- bee_rider 6mo agoIt is weird to think, computers are almost completely devoid of whirring nowadays. Other than the fan, and fans have gotten quite quiet. Floppies, CDs, hard drives. Tapes even (although I’m not that old). It’s just kind of funny, I guess, the upcoming generation will never have the surprising “wow, my computer is silent” moment. I guess that was a one-time thing.
- Loughla 6mo agoI tried to describe to my kid the sound of a 5.25" floppy disc the other day. MMWA MWA mmmmmm MWAMWA mmmmmmm. He has seen 3.5" discs, but never the large floppies. His mind almost exploded when I talked about games needing 7 or 8 discs and hitting certain points where the game would pause while you put a new disc in.
- PlunderBunny 6mo agoI remember when the hard drive on my PowerMac 7200/90 started to fail (I was told that some of the ball bearings the platter rotated on were broken [0]). When the drive detected a 'wobble' on the platter, the entire computer would just power down with no warning at all - it was like the sound of a vacuum cleaner powering off. Silence and a blank screen that looked like a power cut, followed by that "oh sh!t" moment. 0. Note sure how true this was!
- antalis 6mo agoYes, there are two players, and often the bottom one plays and it's a different song than the one we selected, which is loaded in the top one.
- shit_game 6mo agoI love seeing art like this. Using things that are forgotten, obscure, unused, insignificant, or otherwise inconsequential is an ethos unto its own. Obsolete technologies are becoming exponentially rare; I unfortunately passed up an auction for an Osbourne 1 just this week and I'm regretting it more every second since. I desperatey search thrift stores for anything I can find that isn't the generic consumer garbage that plagues the US; smart tvs, ISP-issued modem/routers, terrible dvd players, "media centers", other smart garbage. Really, any kind of digital circuit that isnt a dumb interface to media is sacrilige in my search. This has become all but a moot point because things like CRTs and other obscure electronics are all picked off at the donation point and then sold online because they've been indentified as valuable or "retro", or outright thrown away because theyre considered too old for anyone to ever give a shit about. There is a disturbing situation regarding old technology right now where only a very, very specific subset of technologies are considered valuable to a very small, specific subset of consumers; this means that things like CRTs are shipped off to warehouses to be catalogued and sold on online auctions, and their accompanying hardware is being thrown into dumpsters because theres no immediately correlated market for this hardware. For the first time in about 10 years I saw two VCRs at a thrift store (a Quasar VHQ-40M and some lesser generic garbage). This was the first time I had seen a VCR for sale IRL since going to a pawn shop that has since been demolished; the man running the store said I could keep it for free because the person who pawned it was a crackhead and he didn't even know if it worked, but if it did, he wanted me to come back and pay him $10 for it. Lo and behold it worked perfectly, so I went back and did. I've noticed just this week that both of the thrift store companies I frequent have stopped stocking VHS tapes; I don't know if this is because they have decided they're to be thrown out, sold online, or refused as donations. The last VHS tapes I've bought were Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and Austin Powers in Goldmember.
- bombcar 6mo agoIt's almost certainly that they refuse the donations or throw them out when they find them. Some of the more rural thrift stores still have VHS, one still has cassettes, and I know of a place where there's a stash of 8-track. Thrift stores are businesses; they stock what sells - but they also have the reality of often having to pay to dispose of electronic waste that was donated - they're not allowed to just dumpster it as in days of yore. Of course the national thrift store chain machines (Goodwill) have policies for all this stuff - you gotta hit up and get to know the smaller independent stores if you want them to hold stuff for you - which they'll often do. A VCR and some tapes are great for the kid's playroom - teach them rewind patience on equipment you won't cry much if they destroy.
- Hnrobert42 6mo agoI wonder if it should include the sound of insects. Sigh.
- nhecker 6mo agoOr songbirds.
- stavros 6mo agoThis is great, but why is there an echo? It's prominent and it didn't let me enjoy the nostalgia as much as hearing the actual sound would have.
- rbanffy 6mo agoI was looking for typewriter sounds and several of them are "artistic renderings" that are completely useless as a form of documentation.
- tgv 6mo agoThere's e.g. this one: http://www.mrgory.info/sm/ http://www.mrgory.info/sm/ (path may look odd, but it probably means sound machine/museum/memory or something).
- elaus 6mo agoQuite a lot of sample sound strange. Some even have echo or other weird artifacts. I hope it's not AI generated.
- NoSalt 6mo agoAaaahhh ... the IBM Selectric. Fond memories.
- kleiba 6mo ago"Each sound in the project is recomposed and reimagined by artists" Completely agree! I would have much preferred original sounds, or - if anything - sounds taken from original recordings but restored to compensate for the bad recording equipment at the time of recording.
- steinwinde 6mo agoYou can listen to each of the original recordings. Just make sure you click on the first play button after you've chosen the sound, not the second (which often seems to be the default).
- klik99 6mo agoYes, I came to say the same thing, not just typewriter - it's a great idea but I wish they had the original recordings by themselves and not overlayed with ambient music.
- ljlolel 6mo agoI just made a new audio format that makes sharing sounds easier on mobile https://hxtube.com https://hxtube.com
- Cockbrand 6mo agoI can't believe nobody had nitpicked the obvious mistake yet: there never was an iBook Duo. The 68k Apple notebooks and the early PPC ones were called PowerBooks, so the correct naming is "PowerBook Duo 230".
- Cockbrand 6mo agoEach time I get super anal about a piece nerd knowledge, I make some mistake myself - all the Apple PPC laptops were in fact called PowerBook. The MacBook name started with the Intel based devices.
- Pxtl 6mo agoMy personal "obsolete sound": The sound of an old C64 floppy drive failing a read. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JroA0Ap7zGU https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JroA0Ap7zGU
- naikrovek 6mo ago> a brand new form of listening bro go away from me with that crap. nothing has been invented, here.
- aaron695 6mo ago[dead]
- adolph 6mo agoI'd like to track down this sound for my sisters and me: Old Library Card Punch Machine. Finding the old library smell too would be a plus. https://www.reddit.com/r/Library/comments/unek0c/old_library_card_punch_machine/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Library/comments/unek0c/old_library...
- jonplackett 6mo agoThe Philips Coffee grinder is quite intense with Airpods on. Feels like my head is the grinder.
- wolandomny 6mo agoThe sounds sort of lack, but the idea is beautiful
- burnt-resistor 6mo agoI was hoping for fax machine, 56K modem, 300 baud modem, US public pay phone ringing and coin deposit, princess phone ring and dial, rotary phone dialing, 9-pin printer, and 24-pin color printer.
- buildsjets 6mo agoWhen I was a kid, I could hear the sound the of the flyback transformer on the CRT TV from anywhere in the house. None of the adults could. 15.7 kHz. Now obsolete both due to the lack of CRTs, and degradation of my hearing from heavy metal concerts and jet engine exposure.
- brycewray 6mo agoSame here about the TV's flyback transformer. My parents always wondered how I could hear from down the hall (out of sight from the TV) when the horizontal hold or vertical hold went awry. :-)
- BugsJustFindMe 6mo agoToilet flush as obsolete sound is an interesting future.
- lemoncucumber 6mo agoI thought this was going to be about phonemes that used to be part of English but aren't anymore (e.g. all of the vestigal "gh"es in our spellings that used to represent the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_velar_fricative but are now either silent or pronounced as another phoneme).
- nilslindemann 6mo agoIt took me a few clicks to figure out what played those sounds. The background images of the play buttons aren't helpful in visually clarifying their function. Otherwise: Good idea, keep it up!
- ragall 6mo agoThe Zenit-E film wind and shutter click gave me the chills.
- aa-jv 6mo ago10 PING:ZAP:SHOOT:EXPLODE 20 GOTO 10
- roryirvine 6mo agoAh, the Oric-1! (And maybe the Atmos, too?)
- aa-jv 6mo agoNo maybe, definitely! :)