Windows Startup Noisesįor me, it's all about the Windows 3.1 trumpet fanfare and the harp-like Windows 95 sound, but the others are pretty memorable, too. Nowadays, most of us (or at least, most adults) probably wish we got less email back then, though, a little thrill always ran through us whenever we heard those three words. “You've Got Mail”Īmerica Online's sound cues are perhaps the most iconic part of the '90s computer and Internet landscape - and the cheerful indication that you had a message in your inbox when you logged on is arguably the most iconic of the iconic. I'm not kidding - that thing shook the very foundations of our house. The startup noise, for example? It was so loud that I always had to make sure I'd turned the volume on our family PC's speakers aaaaaaaaall the way down before I booted it up. I'd totally forgotten about most of messaging program ICQ's noises until last week - but once I opened the floodgates, so to speak, it all came rushing back to me. Remember these iconic computer sounds from the '90s? 1. It was an exciting time to be alive, with new advancements happening seemingly every day - and sometimes, I still kind of wish that's the landscape we currently occupied. For those of us who grew up as home computing became the norm, these sounds were commonly encoutered on our family computers, in the computer lab at school, or in the local library. The fact that it performs this dual purpose, therefore, means that smelling a certain scent might call up a memory of a place you used to encounter it seeing a certain object might make you think of a time that object played an important role in your life and hearing a specific sound might trigger a memory associated with that sound.Īnd there's no denying that the sounds of the early digital landscape were unique. A study published in 2010 found that the part of our brain in charge of processing our senses also deals - at least in part - with the storing of emotional memories. There's a scientific reason our senses have the ability to bring back memories we'd otherwise all but forgotten, by the way. Take, for example, these '90s computer sounds: Hearing them immediately transports me to the room in which my family's PC sat, plunking me down in front of the keyboard and making me feel like I'm a kid again. It's well-acknowledged that your sense of smell can call up memories like nobody's business - but for me, particular sounds can also serve as a big reminder of times gone by.
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