Ta-da! Hear the fascinating history of the Microsoft Windows start-up sounds

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Those sound[s] gives me the shivers, reboot after reboot at my desk in the 80’s & 90’s. F’ing Bill Gates…

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I was feeling nostalgic the other day for the particularly grand chime of certain old Powermacs.

My new computer doesn’t even beep on startup anymore. I guess I could configure the Windows startup sound manually, but it’s just not the same.

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Around that same time, I grabbed a sound-bite from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” which played with each incoming email. “I fart in your general direction.” Cracked me up every time. Thankfully I was not inundated with email as some of my coworkers were.

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