Save the sounds

[didymus]

from the Washington Post:**
**Museum of Endangered Sounds enshrines audio from bygone era

Here’s the site for the museum: savethesounds.info/

So, if you’re longing to hear the noise of a 56k modem, a dot-matrix printer, the ring of the original Nkoia cellphone, enjoy!

 

[maltmom]

wawka wawka wawka

 

[Daizies]

So awesome!!

 

[MarkThompson]

How funny; I was just whistling the Tetris theme (which Wikipedia tells me is a Russian folk song called Korobeiniki) today.

 

[Byrnwiga]

This is really neat. I only heard some of those sounds when I was younger . Thanks for posting it.

-Byrnwiga

 

[the_phoenix]

Like, totally awesome, fer shurr, dude!

 

[didymus]

Got thinking of other long-gone sounds, the the cracking of ice in an old-fashioned ice-cube tray:
http://blog1.ebates.com/ebates/ice cube trays.jpg

Or the sound (and sometimes cursing) before the modern age when mowers didn’t start electronically:

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Soon to be extinct: the sound of flipping thru the pages of a book.