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Sounds You'll Soon Never Hear Again – #14

Matt Hendricks — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:31:59 +0000

Today's printers might actually work -- well, most of the time but boy don't we miss bone-crunching sound of the dot matrix is one of the most immediately recognizable noises in yesterday's technology. What other sound, after all, so deafeningly conveys the message: "Hey, buddy: Get ready to fix a paper jam"? I wonder whatever happened to all of these things? I bet in Africa somewhere they are still hearing this sound!

Sounds You Soon Won't Hear Again – #15

Matt Hendricks — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:31:03 +0000

Between call-waiting and speech-based signals (“The number you are trying to reach is busy…”), the soothing sound of a busy phone is something you rarely hear these days. How many teenagers have heard this tone? Hard to believe, but think about it – when is the last time you heard this tone when you made [...]

Sounds You'll Soon Never Hear Again – #16

Matt Hendricks — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:12:57 +0000

It was the ringtone before there were ringtones — the predecessor to an infinite array of annoying pocket-based serenades – but hey, at least we weren’t toting around “Bag Phones” anymore! Now look at the ringtones everyone has. Nothing more annoying than “Baby got Back” blasting when someone’s wife calls. And yes, I had a [...]

Sounds You'll Never Hear Again – #17 [VIDEO]

Matt Hendricks — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:54:26 +0000

The cry of the AOL mail man was damn near ubiquitous in the 90s. For future generations, it'll be about as familiar as those blasted "50 free hours" disks we used to get sent every seven days. I still think I have a whole pile of them sitting somewhere - Or there is a landfill - or several for that matter full of those things

Sound You'll Never Hear Again – #18 [VIDEO]

Matt Hendricks — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:24:20 +0000

I bring you #18 on the list of the 20 sounds you'll soon hear disappear in the next 10 years or so.

Love it or hate it, there's a good chance that fanfare-like sound signaling the start of Windows 3.1 is forever etched in your brain. Or how about that airy little ditty that greeted you upon bootup of Windows 95?

Sounds You'll Never Hear Again – #19 [VIDEO]

Matt Hendricks — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:28:36 +0000

I bring you #19 on the list of the 20 sounds you'll soon hear disappear in the next 10 years or so...

The brief tone. The dialing of those magical numbers. And that screech -- by God, that screech. It's musical, really, starting with a single beep and expanding into cascading harmonies of mechanical song. Then comes the satisfying bursts of static, with their climactic rush that screams out: Yes- We're connected at 9600BPS!

Sounds You'll Soon Never Hear Again – #20 [VIDEO]

Matt Hendricks — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:15:56 +0000

Okay, we all like retro music, so over the next 20 days I’ll give you the “retro” top 20 sounds you’ll likely to see disapear soon, if they aren’t already gone. So Today I give you the first of 20. Who could fail to remember that comforting cluckety-cluck of a 5.25-inch floppy chugging along in [...]