A character called Brendan Chilcutt has created the online "museum" in early 2012 to preserve the sounds made famous by his favourite old devices, such as the "textured rattle and hum of a VHS tape being sucked into the womb of a 1983 JVC HR-7100 VCR" (ah, yes). As new products come to market, these nostalgia-inducing noises become as obsolete as the devices that make them.
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This is going to be so AWESOME when it is done. I have such fond memories of waiting for the dial up to connect while listening to the irritating buzz of the connection. I still pull out my Tamagachi sometimes to play with him. I still think VCRs are the best invention of all time. It is such a shame that the next generation won't even know what most of these things are much less what they sound like. There was an article that I read (it might have been on here) that was talking about how the next generation won't know what the Save symbol is. They just connect it with saving their document and not that fact that it is a floppy disk. There is so much technology and things that were such big things when they came out, but now everything just seems like a new version of something that was already made. Sure the iPhones were pretty big when they came out, but now each is just the same as before with little tweaks done.
Mmmmm! Yummy nostalgia. I find the sound of the Olympus camera winding on the Museum of Endangered Sounds website so incredibly visceral and satisfying. The crunchy static of Space Invaders and Pac Man blips are annoyingly quaint in the best possible way. I could go on. But not on and on, because the project is not yet complete. Which is my only complaint; there are not enough sounds (as yet) to play with! Nice mix of mechanical and electronic on the site, and I like how the icons also visually ‘come to life’ when clicked. Conceptually, I appreciate how this project prompts users to (possibly) research the technologies – and the functions – that create(d) these sounds. More please.
This will be so fun!!!!! I do love sounds and I think they are so important. As most people know, sound is a strong trigger in one's memory (actually, I might totally be making this up except, I'm pretty sure I heard/learned this somewhere) and so yes, sounds can trigger a lot of memories (actually, maybe it's all of the senses...) I love the sound of the rotary phone. The one my family used to use has this really smooth clicking noise. I also love the sound of putting a tape into an old walkman. The sound of how the tape moves across from one peg to the other... *shutter* it's great!!!! I can't wait for the website to be finished!
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