Microsoft Windows 95 Reboot Chime and Minecraft Soundtrack Inducted Into National Recording Registry (betanews.com) 31
BrianFagioli writes: In a move that is sure to make longtime PC users do a double take, the Library of Congress has added two very unexpected sounds to its National Recording Registry. No, it's not another classic rock album or jazz staple. Believe it or not, it's actually the "Reboot Chime" from Windows 95 (that played when the operating system started) and the soundtrack from Minecraft!
Reboot Chime played when the OS started (Score:2)
I think most people here would know that.
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Because the system can't play a chime during an ABEND
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Re: Reboot Chime played when the OS started (Score:2)
You kids with non-microkernels go play with your toy OSes.
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That would have been a better comment if AmigaOS wasn't microkernel-based.
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Reboot chime (Score:5, Funny)
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Mostly all I hear could best be represented by the characters of the shifted numeric key row.
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You heard this a lot with Windows 95.
(GenZ) ”Oh c’mon, it couldn’t have been that bad. I mean how often could it have possibl..”
(GenX) ”Let me just stop you right there and give you an idea. How often do you swipe left.”
Sega (Score:1)
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Nintendo [wikipedia.org] won the video game music race
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56k [cracked.com] out of the game's ~500k.
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The SNK Neo Geo jingle and the Capcom CPS2 QSound jingle were iconic sounds of gaming.
Re: World Series (Score:2)
Because it a National recording registry. National being the United States of America. Run by the library of congress
Still use this music today (Score:5, Funny)
I still set my modern computers to play this sound on login. It just feels right.
It also stopped a room once when I rebooted my laptop during a meeting. The pause and disbelief, followed by, " . . . really?"
Were "You've got mail!" and the AIM chimes added? (Score:3)
Yawn (Score:2)
double take? Why? (Score:5, Insightful)
I have never understood why people think that everyday art isn't worth recording like this
It's like it's not... idk... high art? wealthy enough?
Come on people. This is your lives and your actual history. These are legitimately the sounds of your era.
Re:double take? Why? (Score:5, Informative)
If I'm not mistaken, the sound was created by Brian Eno, who essentially invented ambient music and whose work is regarded as something like "high art".
The way you describe the sound - everyday, sounds of your life, etc - fit in exactly with what Eno was trying to do with his work, which he has called "furniture music" among other things.
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Absolutely... But that just ads to the provenance.
It would be worth archiving as one of the most commonly heard sounds of the era, even without that insightful motivation on Eno's part.
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Totally. '95 was awful, but its startup sound, composed by Brian Eno is a nice sound. Definitely a work of art.
Re: double take? Why? (Score:2)
When played through the speaker it was truly a masterpiece
Billboards Top 100 Reboots. (Score:2)
Come on people. This is your lives and your actual history. These are legitimately the sounds of your era.
Sounds of our era? You act as if Win95 startup sounds are blaring from 90s fans car speakers as they reminisce. It’s about as culturally popular as a seasoned SysAdmin hanging BSODs on walls as art.
Sure, I’m GenX. I guess it’s good to know we’ve preserved it in a catalog no one actively listens to, and few know exist? *shrugs*
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You don't just preserve good things when you archive. That's not the point of archiving things.
Please add... (Score:2)