You probably already know this by now, but sound is one of the most nostalgia-provoking things on Earth. Sometimes, all you need is the sound of something to transport you to a different place or take you back to a memory.
We have all heard countless of sounds in our lifetime and, naturally, we end up forgetting about many of them, especially those we do not hear often. We also end up forgetting those we have not heard in a very long time. Well, let us tell you about a website that preserves sounds that we have long forgotten, but we will undoubtedly remember the moment we hear them.
Museum of Endangered Sounds
The website is known as the Museum of Endangered Sounds. The website was launched in January 2012 by Brendan Chilcutt.
"I launched the site in January of 2012 as a way to preserve the sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment," Chilcutt says on the website.
"My ten-year plan is to complete the data collection phase by the year 2015, and spend the next seven years developing the proper markup language to reinterpret the sounds as a binary composition," he adds.
All you have to do to hear a sound is to click its photo. You have to click it once more so that it stops playing. If you do not click the photo to stop the sound and you end up clicking another photo, both sounds will play at the same time.
You can check out the Museum of Endangered Sounds by clicking here.
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Sounds Preserved on the Museum of Endangered Sounds
If you want to have an idea of what forgotten sounds are preserved thanks to the Museum of Endangered Sounds before you visit the site, we listed some of them below:
Dial-Up Internet
Before wifi came to be, what people used to connect to the internet was the dial-up connection. As Techopedia explains, you need both a phone line and an analog modem in order to connect to the internet. And when it does try to make that connection, the dial-up has a very memorable sound that people once hated hearing for too long
Why? Because it meant they were not connecting to the internet.
Technopedia also notes that while it may be the cheapest way to connect to the internet, it also provides the slowest connection.
Nokia Ringtone
These days, it might be hard to imagine life without a smartphone. However, back in the 2000s and even the years before that, there were no smartphones. Instead, people had a Nokia phone.
It might be years or decades even since you probably owned or even held a Nokia phone. But if you visit the Museum of Endangered Sounds and click the photo of that Nokia, the sound of its signature ringtone will bring back memories.
Windows 95 Startup
The Windows 95 is the first operating system under the Windows 9x family. As its name suggests, it was released to consumers in 1995. This classic operating system combined both MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.
If you once used a desktop that had the Windows 95, then you probably might recall that it has a startup sound that you hear when you boot up the computer. It is one of the sounds that has been preserved in the Museum of Endangered Sounds.
