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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The sounds your computer would make if it was connecting to dialup Internet, or the sound you would hear if someone was using said dialup and you picked up the phone.

PC speakers and how they differed from regular speakers, or the fact that you needed a sound card if you wanted sound that wasn't just beeps.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Or just the sounds your computer would make. Loud spinning hard disks and dot matrix printers was the office orchestra.