Consider a time when one could never again hear the melodic sounds of an original Tetris-playing GameBoy or the magical sound of a Speak and Spell.

These are the questions which led US-based Brendan Chilcutt into curating the Museum of Endangered Sounds.

Chilcutt’s online archive features sounds from old technologies, such as the ringing of old Nokia mobile phone, loading of VCRs, connecting 56K modems and gameplay from Number Munchers!

According to Chilcutt:

“It’s a way to preserve the sounds made famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment.”

He plans to collect more data by the year 2015, and spend the next seven years developing proper markup language to reinterpret the sounds as binary compositions—to preserve them for future generations.

Thank you Brendan Chilcutt. Thank you.

[Museum of Endangered Sounds]

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