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Windows Startup Sounds - 1.0 to Vista
- daniel-cussen 19y agoIt just gets slower and noisier as time goes on.
- henning 19y agoah, fond memories of programs crashing, and then eventually being thankful they were only crashing if i used bad device drivers (but if you did, the entire OS would go down), and then rarely crashing at all.
- ctkrohn 19y agoThe Windows 95 sound (which I rather like) was done by Brian Eno, a noted ambient composer. From an interview Eno gave (found on his Wikipedia page): "The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem X solve it." The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional," this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3 3/4 seconds long." I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel. In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time."