me_irl

pop... pop pop da pop. BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Phone starts ringing

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.

Freestyler - Bomfunk MC's

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).

Mambo Number 5

Incoming phone call, somebodies phone is about to ring.

🎵 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

dit ditditdit ditditdit ditditdit

Linkin Park - Numb.mp3.exe

CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES

THIS IS MY LAST RESORT

Darude - Sandstorm.mp3

phone call incoming

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

crackle crackle bvvvvvvvvvvvt

Touching and fiddling with the jack

win-amp win-aaaaamp llama noises

-"Crrrcttrack-trrr !"

Ah I'm about to get a phone call!

GSM inbound call.

Windows XP startup/login

Bp-bpadp-bpadp-brrrrrr

Phone rings

Linkin park, Evanescence, Green Day, Gorillaz

The Age of Empires 2 Soundtrack.

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

XP noises with a touch of grassy hills and blue sky

CANYON.MID

Virus.exe.mp3

Passport.mid

Facing Worlds

Sim City 2000

salty_chocolate_balls.rm

Kryptonite - three doors down

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

.WMA file? Shudders I forgot those even existed.

Darude sandstorm or dragonforce

Rom Di Prisco - Need For Speed II Main Menu