WINDOWS 98 (SE) STARTUP SOUND Sound courtesy of. You'd hear this 'Uh-oh!' For new messages. ICQ was a chat application that I used a lot in college in the late 90s. It's surprising how different the startup sounds were, especially the AV model Macs (which had special audio/video hardware, hence the fancy sound): 7. MAC STARTUP/CRASH SOUNDS If you had a Mac in the '90s, you'd hear a startup chime, and hopefully you didn't hear the crash sound too often (we used to call it 'MacDeath' at my high school). Cha Ching Sound Wav Downloadīecause back in my day, we couldn't afford the disk space for fancier sounds. WINDOWS 3.1 STARTUP SOUND Sound courtesy of. It was, recorded on a cassette deck in his living room. Aside from being a romantic comedy (), the 'You've got mail' sound was familiar to all AOL users. 'YOU'VE GOT MAIL' (AOL) Sound courtesy of. 3.5' FLOPPY DRIVE SOUND If you ever installed software or copied a lot of files, you heard this. So here's a 56k modem dialing and connecting (illustrated with a little guy acting as the modem): 2. My friend's mom called this sound 'wirescream,' which sounds accurate to me. You will have to overwrite your existing ICQ sound files. To use these sounds, download the zipped pack and extract them into the ICQ sound subdirectory. Tags of sounds inside the pack: game video glitch 16bit bleep bloop pop tech gun gunshot military minimal one shot air bass helicopter sound space wobble.
But today, the 56k modem (the pinnacle of modem technology in the '90s) is the best-remembered 'modem screech.' 56K MODEM CONNECTING Modem connection sounds varied based on speed, modem brand, the quality of the connection, and so on. Let's go back to some computer sounds you probably haven't heard in decades. There were distinct sounds associated with computers of that time that we don't think about today, but they're lodged deep in our memories. Those of us who were really hip in the '90s got online, usually via a dialup modem (or your college's awesome network.if you could afford a network card).
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