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Post by deembastille on Apr 10, 2018 21:52:52 GMT
whether it is noises you no longer hear due to changing technology or noises from an area where you no longer visit... what noises from your past do you miss?
i miss that little 'DOyING' noise an old tubular tv used to make when you turned it on. you know the sound.
i also miss the sound of a loon. and the sound of frogs singing in twilight.
never heard it for real... but wolves and coyotes howling. scary when you are out in the wilderness and unprotected but awesome when you are safe from possible harm.
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Post by theauxphou on Apr 10, 2018 22:11:08 GMT
That ICQ sound: "uh-OH!" That was exciting -- it meant someone replied to me.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Apr 11, 2018 0:37:47 GMT
When I was in Navy boot camp in San Diego, Lindbergh Field (now known as San Diego International Airport) was not far off, and you'd hear the sound of commercial jets taking off in the distance at just about all hours. I somehow found that a welcome - and even inspiring - noise as I plodded through that long ordeal of basic training.
Where I live now, I'm nowhere near an airport, so I don't really hear that kind of jet noise anymore, but when I think back on it, I do miss hearing it.
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Post by deembastille on Apr 11, 2018 0:43:03 GMT
i miss the quiet booms from Disney world every night when visiting my parents.
EDIT... the booms were the fireworks going off. they live about an hour away from Disney and they can still hear them.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Apr 11, 2018 0:45:36 GMT
After living in Manhattan, first in the ghetto, then in East Midtown (gtound floor, front), I miss none of the sounds except my cats meowing amd purring.
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Post by rateater on Apr 11, 2018 2:32:31 GMT
the return of the jedi atari game
the sound made when pacman dies
turning on a speak n spell
sounds of a boardwalk arcade
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Post by deembastille on Apr 11, 2018 3:06:17 GMT
that dudududut sound when Mario and/or Luigi die.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2018 3:46:07 GMT
The soothing sounds of Star Trek the original series coming on at night after I was in bed, everyone was in bed except my dad in the family room watching Star Trek. So comforting, to this day, to hear that intro and the episodes.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 11, 2018 15:21:06 GMT
...the eerie music from the TV series "One Step Beyond"
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Apr 11, 2018 19:24:38 GMT
I miss that slight hissing/popping sound you'd hear when you first put an LP on the record player, when the needle first lands on the vinyl...
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Apr 12, 2018 0:58:37 GMT
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Apr 12, 2018 3:08:44 GMT
I miss the sound of my old Maytag top-loader washing machine in my previous house. It made some interesting and recognizable noises as it went through the wash cycle: various hisses, clanks, thunks, spinning, vibration, rumbling even... and it was a fantastic machine, too. I never had any problem with it, never needed a service call. Clothes always clean as a whistle. Yes, I miss that machine indeed.
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Post by theshape25 on Apr 12, 2018 8:05:00 GMT
That ICQ sound: "uh-OH!" That was exciting -- it meant someone replied to me. I miss that too. I also miss the modem noise when connecting to dial up internet. |
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Post by theauxphou on Apr 12, 2018 10:23:57 GMT
I miss that too. I also miss the modem noise when connecting to dial up internet. That's one sound I don't miss!  |
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Post by theshape25 on Apr 12, 2018 14:27:12 GMT
I miss that too. I also miss the modem noise when connecting to dial up internet. That's one sound I don't miss! Lol, I don't miss the slow speeds dial up gave us, but for nostalgia's sake I do miss that noise. When I first started getting on the net back in the late 90s it was an exciting time having all that information at our fingertips. That's something that we all take for granted now. |
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Post by rateater on Apr 12, 2018 14:54:11 GMT
people saying hi-ya when they perform karate moves
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Post by theauxphou on Apr 12, 2018 15:06:14 GMT
That's one sound I don't miss! Lol, I don't miss the slow speeds dial up gave us, but for nostalgia's sake I do miss that noise. When I first started getting on the net back in the late 90s it was an exciting time having all that information at our fingertips. That's something that we all take for granted now. I remember I had a uni account that allowed maybe 15 hours’ internet access per week from any modem, as long as you logged in via Unix or whatever it was. The dial-up sessions would only allow no longer than four hours, and then it’d kick you out after that. I had the passwords to two other former classmates whom I knew would never use their allotted dial-up quota, so I logically worked out their usernames and passwords, so I had 3 accounts (triple the hours of access). I doubt they ever knew I was using it. I had to memorise whose access I’d used up so I could juggle the accounts around, which gave me many hours of free net access a week. |
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Post by marianne48 on Apr 12, 2018 23:17:49 GMT
Frogs at night. There used to be so many more of them around.
The purring of a rotary phone dial when making a call. And if you were calling Information, you got to hear the inimitable voice of James Earl Jones proclaiming, "Welcome to Bell Atlantic!"
The loud honking of the 5 o'clock horn that went off in a nearby factory town (when there was still a factory there instead of a strip mall).
Those little beeps on school filmstrips that signaled when to turn the knob to the next image on the screen (yes, kiddies, sometimes we didn't get to watch a movie in class, but just a series of still images! And you think school is dullsville now?) Similarly, those little beeps at the very beginning of a film, when the film leader was rolling through the projector and the screen showed a countdown of numbers, which the class usually counted down in unison (sometimes ending in "blastoff!"--it was the space age, after all).
The neighbor guy's very loud, piercing two-fingers-in-his-mouth whistle to call his kids home for dinner. They, and most of the other kids, got to play outside all day unsupervised until evening. Now kids aren't even allowed to go outside unaccompanied.
The relatively melodious two-tone signal used by the Emergency Warning System years ago. A little nerve-wracking, but nowhere near as jarring as the screeching signal used today.
If you fell asleep in front of the TV at night, you'd have that soft, fuzzy white noise of the static that replaced the station when it went off the air in the middle of the night, which was a soothing presence as you slept. Now you're more likely to wake up to an annoying infomercial, a scary public service announcement, or a rerun of a particularly crappy sitcom.
Local AM radio DJs playing songs with that echo effect, advertising local businesses, and making some silly comments about the music being played. Now it's just programmed stations playing a very short playlist over and over.
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 12, 2018 23:32:56 GMT
The modem handshake sound was the first to come to mind, but I don't miss it.
Foghorns along the Chicago lakefront.
Trucks driving through neighborhood selling produce: "Straaaawberries . . . bluuuuueberries....." This was in 1960s suburbia, not the Lower East Side in the 1920s.
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Post by deembastille on Apr 12, 2018 23:37:02 GMT
the eerie train whistle sound [not a train whistle but the fire alarm sound] in my neighboring town Katonah.
it sounds like a train in the distance but it is really the fire alarm.
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