Museum of Endangered Sounds

http://savethesounds.info/

by slaundy • 14 years ago

80 25 14 years ago

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Wonderfully nostalgic. I had that Nokia phone until about 2009, and taught myself to read on the Speak'n'Spell.

lancefisher• 14 years ago

The Game Boy was the best Tetris experience! I always missed that music on other implementations.

lotharbot4• 14 years ago

seems a bit unnecessary to make the TV image NSFW.

enko2• 14 years ago

You have got to be kidding me. Who could possibly consider that "NSFW"? I have literally seen more skin being flashed by clothes people are wearing at work.

I get the necessity for NSFW warnings where appropriate, but anyone who has a problem with that tiny, flickering, black and white half-body shot of a woman in lingerie, clearly within the context of a larger collection, has got something wrong with them.

lotharbot4• 14 years ago

How does the page suffer if instead there's a flickering Howdy Doody, Walter Cronkite, or Emergency Broadcast System screen? How does the page benefit from the inclusion of an image that, while not particularly erotic, is definitely suggestive? (An image can be suggestive even if it shows little or no skin.) Hence my point that it is unnecessary.

Every so often an HN discussion about "brogrammers" and latent sexism comes up. This is a great example. That particular image serves to communicate to the women in the audience "you are objects" (yes, really!) The inclusion of that particular image does make some people uncomfortable and could certainly qualify as NSFW in some work settings (I was an educator, working with mostly 9-10 year olds. "EWWW! Teacher had a dirty picture on his computer!") The only reason to choose such an image is to signal to other bros "hey, I'm cool too", which unfortunately signals to all the rest of us (whether intentionally or not) "I don't respect women".

freshnote• 14 years ago

I agree the TV image is a bit NSFW. It disqualifies the site from me ever showing my daughters.

I'm not sure why (as I'm a heterosexual guy) but these kind of photos seem to dumb the content down and I feel like I should have a Coors Light in my hand.

retrogradeorbit2• 14 years ago

nice low quality, noisy, sometimes clipping recordings. Just what a museum needs! I mean there's even someone talking in the background of the rotary telephone sound clip.

retrogradeorbit2• 14 years ago

Down voted for speaking factually. If, for instance, I were to start a museum of sounds with a rotary telephone sound in there, I'd source an old rotary telephone and do some nice, clear and most importantly dry recordings of it. But what would I know?

keithpeter• 14 years ago

Looks OK but I prefer

http://www.freesound.org/

where the licensing is clear and samples of all kinds of quality (glitch to high end) available.

xyzzyb• 14 years ago

A tag was created specifically to respond to Sound Museum and is already a great collection: http://www.freesound.org/browse/tags/sound-museum/

joshuahhh• 14 years ago

Not gonna lie; the MindMaze theme brought me back in a powerful way.

mkilling• 14 years ago

Would look better without the dynamic shadow casting

evride• 14 years ago

Yes, it's unnecessary and distracting.

cowpewter• 14 years ago

The sound of a modem connecting will forever bring back memories of my time in a mediumished-sized dialup ISP's tech support call center.

ars• 14 years ago

Now I want to play number munchers. I got so good at that game.

PC's should really go back to having the arrow keys all in a line (instead of an upside down T), so you can press any of them without moving your fingers - it's so much faster.

duncan2• 14 years ago

Where is the dialup sound?

deno• 14 years ago

The one with AOL logo. 1st row, 3rd column.

duncan2• 14 years ago

weird it doesn't play for me. hmm.

tallanvor• 14 years ago

I don't understand why you'd get nostalgic about the sounds of a rotary phone, a cassette tape, or a modem connecting, let alone most of those other sounds. The concepts of those technologies still exist, they've just been replaced by superior versions.

I can understand the nostalgia around the game sounds, of course, because they more strongly evoke the memories of actually playing the game.

pessimizer• 14 years ago

The concept of the game still exists now - why would you be nostalgic about the sounds of the old inferior ones?

twiceaday• 14 years ago

This is a great premise for a Monty Python sketch.

hartror• 14 years ago

Don't click the game boy, it is a trap. Not going to get that song out of my head for a week now.

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