me_irl

pop... pop pop da pop. BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Phone starts ringing

almost 20 years ago I downloaded off limewire a cover of Toxicity by System of a Down, purely instrumental and listened to it through highschool

the artist listed in the file's metadata was Trans Siberian Orchestra. back around 2005 finding out that they never covered Toxicity was somewhere between challenging and impossible so I accepted it and forgot about it

recently I wanted to re-find that song, maybe on Spotify or YouTube or wherever. only this year did I realize that that artist was never correct, and googling held nothing for me

in one of the vanishingly rare successful uses of a large language model I got ChatGPT to suggest artists from that time that might have covered that song and after a few tries dismissing the most popular artists it spat out Vitamin String Quartet and I get to listen to a higher quality version of the song I first heard around 2005

i somehow ended up with a band's demo casette. i never knew what band, a friend saw them in a nearby town. listened to it for 20 years before i tried shazam and then found their website. they're still touring!
Smart way to slice the problem

GSM inbound call.

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- https://youtu.be/gpQS41WQSPY

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It's funny, set my phone to only recieve 2g calls while in the same room as the speakers a few days ago. Instant blast to the past when i could predict phonecalls. Still fun doing it today!
So; Barcode Brothers - SMS

Linkin park, Evanescence, Green Day, Gorillaz

Incoming phone call, somebodies phone is about to ring.

Linkin Park - Numb.mp3.exe

This is also how you got a lot of the best browser toolbars and other software suites.
Came here looking for this comment, was not disappointed

Darude - Sandstorm.mp3

there it is

Kryptonite - three doors down

Bp-bpadp-bpadp-brrrrrr

Phone rings

Dammit! It was at 80%!! And of course I can't resume it. I'll stay up late and just restart at 12am.

crackle crackle bvvvvvvvvvvvt

Touching and fiddling with the jack

CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES

THIS IS MY LAST RESORT

Virus.exe.mp3

Shouldn't that be virus.mp3.exe?

I don't think I had those exact speakers, but it makes me think of the Windows 98 startup sound and the times it was so loud that I had to scramble to turn the volume knob down.

WARCRAFT 2 THEME INTENSIFIES

Freestyler - Bomfunk MC's

On Winamp, while playing a html web game on dail-up internet.

phone call incoming

Although, technically, there's a song I remember the "Winamp...it really whips the llama's ass!" (For the younger crowd https://youtu.be/HaF-nRS_CWM) Echoing... That and the ICQ's "Uh Oh!" (For the younger crowd https://youtu.be/RhGHerssyk4).

Rom Di Prisco - Need For Speed II Main Menu

...it really whips the llama's ass!

Random crackling noises and a weird high pitched tone, until you find the perfect potentiometer position for it to work, but then it's either way too loud or way too quiet

Windows XP startup/login

🎵 The menfolk found their women scary

'Cause they were so big and hairy 🎵

Smash Mouth - All Star

Tim Carleton's "Opus No. 1" Cisco hold music hit. Shit is still a banger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4&t=16

Given that I have some speakers from the same era hooked up to monitor three, currently it's (Neko)nomicon by Obkatiekat. Also monitor 3 is a HP Pavilion, I want to play Arcanum in roughly correct resolution.

salty_chocolate_balls.rm

-"Crrrcttrack-trrr !"

Ah I'm about to get a phone call!

Mambo Number 5

win-amp win-aaaaamp llama noises

Facing Worlds

Oh boy oh yeah

Orbital - Halcyon + On and On

A man of culture. Hackers (1995) ?
- Goddamn right

The Age of Empires 2 Soundtrack.

Wololoooo

Sim City 2000

Sim City 3000 unlimited.

Passport.mid

XP noises with a touch of grassy hills and blue sky

CANYON.MID

I work in a university, I can think of 3 offices in my building that still have them.

Darude sandstorm or dragonforce

The HIV Song by Ween

.WMA file? Shudders I forgot those even existed.

Windows Media Audio — it's like MP3, but with DRM, yay!

009 dreamscape

For some reason it's also the only song I own on itunes, idk who tho

AFFIRMATIVE

Anything that I could get from Napster.

Open Your Eyes and Lords Of The Boards

Hit me baby one more time...

roller coaster tycoon

That and the original Sims game were pumping through mine.

the All Your Base Are Belong to Us song

I can no longer remember how it goes, yet I was there when they meme'd it.

Delerium - Resurrection (Semantic Spaces)

https://youtu.be/2WPCLda_erI

The correct answer

Every WAV file on the Encarta 96 CD.

Nice. I spent the most time with Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia on the Sega CD. So good. I knew every (multimedia) entry. Can still quote the portion of MLK's "I have a dream speech" that was on there. Developed a crush or two on a few entries. Desperate times.

Some shit from OCRemix, of course

that one track that came as a sample with my first Windows 7... Calimba I think

the yahoo yodel

bodyshitthe_floor_teenage_wasteland_420.mp3

canyon.mid

Elwynn forest music from wow

Four Dead Cheerleaders by Dropkick not Dropkick Murphy's like every file sharing app said.

Onestop.mid

Like Humans Do

Finally ! The only right answer : Like Humans Do ~ David Byrne
- Precisely. That song is windows xp to me

Pocket tanks OST

That Brian Eno classic…

Standing on the rooftops, everybody scream your HEART OUT!!!

That song from Dumb and Dumber about the vegetarian girl that loves septuagenarians or something.

axel_f.mod

I remember the Crazy Frog sounds first from a site called the "insanity test". It was just all those race car noises with a picture of a race car and it said something like "if you cannot look at this for 30 seconds without laughing you are insane."
- Oh, Axel the crazy frog? No, my post was about Harold Faltermayer's Axel Foley Theme recreated in ModTracker.

Incubus - A Certain Shade of Green

Some bullshit Disney song

Pennywise - surfing USA