It's funny, set my phone to only recieve 2g calls while in the same room as the speakers a few days ago. Instant blast to the past when i could predict phonecalls. Still fun doing it today!
almost 20 years ago I downloaded off limewire a cover of Toxicity by System of a Down, purely instrumental and listened to it through highschool
the artist listed in the file's metadata was Trans Siberian Orchestra. back around 2005 finding out that they never covered Toxicity was somewhere between challenging and impossible so I accepted it and forgot about it
recently I wanted to re-find that song, maybe on Spotify or YouTube or wherever. only this year did I realize that that artist was never correct, and googling held nothing for me
in one of the vanishingly rare successful uses of a large language model I got ChatGPT to suggest artists from that time that might have covered that song and after a few tries dismissing the most popular artists it spat out Vitamin String Quartet and I get to listen to a higher quality version of the song I first heard around 2005
i somehow ended up with a band's demo casette. i never knew what band, a friend saw them in a nearby town. listened to it for 20 years before i tried shazam and then found their website. they're still touring!
Random crackling noises and a weird high pitched tone, until you find the perfect potentiometer position for it to work, but then it's either way too loud or way too quiet
Given that I have some speakers from the same era hooked up to monitor three, currently it's (Neko)nomicon by Obkatiekat. Also monitor 3 is a HP Pavilion, I want to play Arcanum in roughly correct resolution.
Nice. I spent the most time with Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia on the Sega CD. So good. I knew every (multimedia) entry. Can still quote the portion of MLK's "I have a dream speech" that was on there. Developed a crush or two on a few entries. Desperate times.
I don't think I had those exact speakers, but it makes me think of the Windows 98 startup sound and the times it was so loud that I had to scramble to turn the volume knob down.
Although, technically, there's a song I remember the "Winamp...it really whips the llama's ass!"
(For the younger crowd https://youtu.be/HaF-nRS_CWM) Echoing...
That and the ICQ's "Uh Oh!"
(For the younger crowd https://youtu.be/RhGHerssyk4).
I remember the Crazy Frog sounds first from a site called the "insanity test". It was just all those race car noises with a picture of a race car and it said something like "if you cannot look at this for 30 seconds without laughing you are insane."
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So; Barcode Brothers - SMS
It's funny, set my phone to only recieve 2g calls while in the same room as the speakers a few days ago. Instant blast to the past when i could predict phonecalls. Still fun doing it today!
Linkin Park - Numb.mp3.exe
This is also how you got a lot of the best browser toolbars and other software suites.
Came here looking for this comment, was not disappointed
CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
THIS IS MY LAST RESORT
Darude - Sandstorm.mp3
there it is
almost 20 years ago I downloaded off limewire a cover of Toxicity by System of a Down, purely instrumental and listened to it through highschool
the artist listed in the file's metadata was Trans Siberian Orchestra. back around 2005 finding out that they never covered Toxicity was somewhere between challenging and impossible so I accepted it and forgot about it
recently I wanted to re-find that song, maybe on Spotify or YouTube or wherever. only this year did I realize that that artist was never correct, and googling held nothing for me
in one of the vanishingly rare successful uses of a large language model I got ChatGPT to suggest artists from that time that might have covered that song and after a few tries dismissing the most popular artists it spat out Vitamin String Quartet and I get to listen to a higher quality version of the song I first heard around 2005
i somehow ended up with a band's demo casette. i never knew what band, a friend saw them in a nearby town. listened to it for 20 years before i tried shazam and then found their website. they're still touring!
Smart way to slice the problem
phone call incoming
crackle crackle bvvvvvvvvvvvt
Touching and fiddling with the jack
-"Crrrcttrack-trrr !"
Ah I'm about to get a phone call!
win-amp win-aaaaamp llama noises
Winamp, it really whips the llama’s ass!
and MilkDrop Visualizer
Bp-bpadp-bpadp-brrrrrr
Phone rings
Dammit! It was at 80%!! And of course I can't resume it. I'll stay up late and just restart at 12am.
Windows XP startup/login
GSM inbound call.
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https://youtu.be/gpQS41WQSPY
Linkin park, Evanescence, Green Day, Gorillaz
The Age of Empires 2 Soundtrack.
Wololoooo
...it really whips the llama's ass!
XP noises with a touch of grassy hills and blue sky
CANYON.MID
Facing Worlds
Oh boy oh yeah
Virus.exe.mp3
Shouldn't that be virus.mp3.exe?
Passport.mid
pop... pop pop da pop. BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Phone starts ringing
salty_chocolate_balls.rm
Sim City 2000
Sim City 3000 unlimited.
Kryptonite - three doors down
I work in a university, I can think of 3 offices in my building that still have them.
.WMA file? Shudders I forgot those even existed.
Windows Media Audio — it's like MP3, but with DRM, yay!
Darude sandstorm or dragonforce
Rom Di Prisco - Need For Speed II Main Menu
Orbital - Halcyon + On and On
A man of culture. Hackers (1995) ?
Goddamn right
AFFIRMATIVE
The HIV Song by Ween
the All Your Base Are Belong to Us song
I can no longer remember how it goes, yet I was there when they meme'd it.
roller coaster tycoon
That and the original Sims game were pumping through mine.
WARCRAFT 2 THEME INTENSIFIES
Random crackling noises and a weird high pitched tone, until you find the perfect potentiometer position for it to work, but then it's either way too loud or way too quiet
Open Your Eyes and Lords Of The Boards
Anything that I could get from Napster.
Given that I have some speakers from the same era hooked up to monitor three, currently it's (Neko)nomicon by Obkatiekat. Also monitor 3 is a HP Pavilion, I want to play Arcanum in roughly correct resolution.
https://youtu.be/2WPCLda_erI
The correct answer
bodyshitthe_floor_teenage_wasteland_420.mp3
Every WAV file on the Encarta 96 CD.
Nice. I spent the most time with Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia on the Sega CD. So good. I knew every (multimedia) entry. Can still quote the portion of MLK's "I have a dream speech" that was on there. Developed a crush or two on a few entries. Desperate times.
Hit me baby one more time...
that one track that came as a sample with my first Windows 7... Calimba I think
the yahoo yodel
I don't think I had those exact speakers, but it makes me think of the Windows 98 startup sound and the times it was so loud that I had to scramble to turn the volume knob down.
Mambo Number 5
canyon.mid
Elwynn forest music from wow
Although, technically, there's a song I remember the "Winamp...it really whips the llama's ass!" (For the younger crowd https://youtu.be/HaF-nRS_CWM) Echoing... That and the ICQ's "Uh Oh!" (For the younger crowd https://youtu.be/RhGHerssyk4).
Some shit from OCRemix, of course
009 dreamscape
For some reason it's also the only song I own on itunes, idk who tho
Like Humans Do
Finally ! The only right answer : Like Humans Do ~ David Byrne
Precisely. That song is windows xp to me
Freestyler - Bomfunk MC's
On Winamp, while playing a html web game on dail-up internet.
That Brian Eno classic…
Pocket tanks OST
Some bullshit Disney song
Incubus - A Certain Shade of Green
Pennywise - surfing USA
That song from Dumb and Dumber about the vegetarian girl that loves septuagenarians or something.
The Halo theme song for me.
axel_f.mod
I remember the Crazy Frog sounds first from a site called the "insanity test". It was just all those race car noises with a picture of a race car and it said something like "if you cannot look at this for 30 seconds without laughing you are insane."
Oh, Axel the crazy frog? No, my post was about Harold Faltermayer's Axel Foley Theme recreated in ModTracker.
Standing on the rooftops, everybody scream your HEART OUT!!!
Incoming phone call, somebodies phone is about to ring.
Onestop.mid
Four Dead Cheerleaders by Dropkick not Dropkick Murphy's like every file sharing app said.
Delerium - Resurrection (Semantic Spaces)
Bob Marley - red red wine.wma
Tim Carleton's "Opus No. 1" Cisco hold music hit. Shit is still a banger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4&t=16
Smash Mouth - All Star
🎵 The menfolk found their women scary
'Cause they were so big and hairy 🎵