Were you?
lol that wasn't scary.. when i was very little, i was scared from 56k modems dialing sound lol.
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ahah thats actually used in some horror movies and games nowadays isnt it?
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That also didn't scare, just worried that after 1 minute trying to connect, it could fail. So patiently and worried listening the tones to see if they end with the good end "melody" or with the wrong end. So not scaring, but painful!!! We can call it a not hurting torture.
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What? That sound is glorious! :D
It's like receiving a message through the cosmos from some ancient aliens. ;)
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+1. THAT was the scary shit. The shutting down sound was more iconic than it could ever be scary. Only time it ever scared me was when my volume was a liiittlee too high.
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Thing is once you've heard it loud you never really forget it.
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i sure didnt enjoy dial up lol this is only one of the reasons
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Thank you for reminding me of how old I am to remember that.
All you young whippaschnappas have it too good.
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+1
The amount of times I've jumped when someone else started up the modem.
What was even worse is when the sound came from me I wasn't even meant to be on the internet half the time and this thing broadcast my actions through the entire house.
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Exactly! The advent of ISDN was such a blessing. No more piling clothes on the modem to muffle the sound.
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The only reason that was scary is thinking how much I paid for a US Robotics that couldn't handshake any decent connection speed. They sent me an EPROM to swap in, no deal. Support was useless and a dick. Then I got a no name chinese V90 modem for much less and it worked just fine.
US Robotics = shite.
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I wouldn't say scare, but hearing that noise randomly does tend to make my heart skip a beat. Makes me think my computer is about to crash. As a matter of fact, I actually disabled the "shut down" noise from my current computer (win7) just so I never have to hear it... It's weird
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Yep, that sound still has that effect to this day... The pain of working on something for hours, then suddenly, shut down sound...
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i was scared of mbr boot errors...
really, i had one or two every week and had to fix them with the winxp cd. -_-
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When I was a child with Atari, I was scared by magnets getting near my floppy discs case.
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Nope... (perhaps because i was more than 20 years old when Xp was released...) ;-)
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+1 !!!! You are not old, neither am I. They are all lying, don't worry. Those who were children while using XP aren't yet allowed to use the web without parental supervision, right? xD
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Surprisingly enough, you're not alone. I was scared of the shutting down sound to the point where it appeared in my nightmares.
Children are weird.
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same, and I only got scared when I lost a game in heroes 3 and was about to get decapitated xD
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I thought you meant the file. Because well...autosave. But then realised the real meaning, still was a draw and autosave.
It also surprised me the first time I lost in HOMM1
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My 486 didn't wring win 3.1 by default, we installed it later...
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Win XP? A child? No one could possibly be that young and know how to use the web now, right? xD
I am young I tell you! I am young! xD
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LOL, my mind jumped to same conclusion... "XP? Child? Wtf?" :P
If XP shutting down sound scared him, i guess the loading sound of a ZX Spectrum would have given him chronic nigtmares had he owned one. :P
P.S.: Win 95 did scare me shutting down, not because of its sound, but because i feared for my hard drive's integrity, everytime... :/
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Hahahaaha, yeah I remember the 95 scare xD
Do you remember your floppy collection and the cases we had to keep them in, and when a terabyte drive was something you couldn't even imagine?
How times have changed..
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I've gone to lenghts explaining the dreads of floppy disks on a recen thread, actually. :)
Like copying a game from one of my high-school's PCs to 20 of them, only to get a CRC error on the 19th when trying to copying it from the floppies to my PC. Please don't remind me. :P
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Wow, floppy discs in high school? You might be old after all xD
I got my first computer at the age of approx 9, can't really remember exactly but my first OS was Win 95.
I saved up for it all by myself (never spent a cent from what I got form family on birthdays, for visits and so on) and I was sooo proud <3
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I go back all the way to the 2.86 and the ZX Spectrum... from there to an Amiga and finally to the PC master race again . :)
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I was never scared of the various sounds and noises computers make. I was, however, scared of some graphical errors. You know, the ones where the screen goes mostly black with only distorted shapes of the textures and the likes. That's fucking scary.
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When I was a child , I was more terrified about the sound of exploding capacitors in my old DOS-machine....good old times, you could "solder" the problem yourself
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only thing that scared when I was a child in windows is the yeti game rofl.
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I was scared when my Amstrad didn't turn on the screen. Never used XP, i was Win 95, 98, 2000, Vista, 7 and 8.
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It is hard to tell... By the time Windows XP was released I was not exactly a child.
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No but kaspersky detection sound used to scare me when i was a child.Actually,It still freaks me out up till now and that's one of the reasons why i switched to Avast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Si4EUipj0
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No, I don't see why it would scare me. And I only switched to Windows 7 in the recent years.
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I actually like that sound. That and the starting up sound.
But what scared me like hell were the blue screens. Dude, I HAD NIGHTMARES OF THAT MONSTER! It still haunts me till this day.
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That sound used to scare the ** out of my *****
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2jGy76v0Y
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