Article 2GJAJ Windows 95 startup sound slowed 4000%

Windows 95 startup sound slowed 4000%

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Rob Beschizza
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Something about the soundtrack to Hi Stranger tickled neurons untickled for many years. It turned out to be the Windows 95 startup sound slowed 4000%.

Here's the original, for reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miZHa7ZC6Z0

The Windows XP startup sound 800% slower (below) is what you will hear when the singularity tricks you into thinking you are being uploaded to the immortal metamedium, but are really just being eaten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gV8jzGpOLM

And here's Windows 2000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-JSvzZdYI

I'm about certain that the governing principle of Windows startup sounds is "Brian Eno sped up a thousand percent")

Here's the Windows startup sound slowed to cover 24 hours; if ever I produce a movie or game set in space, this will be the ambient bridge audio. My favorite part begins about nine hours in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL7I9BWFqdk

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