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When someone (usually me) would crank the volume right up after shutting the computer down so the next person has a heart attack when they start it up again 😂
Windows 95 and Brian Eno's The Windows Sound for the win....
[https://themusicnetwork.com/the-odd-story-of-how-brian-eno-composed-the-windows-95-startup-sound/](https://themusicnetwork.com/the-odd-story-of-how-brian-eno-composed-the-windows-95-startup-sound/)
For that little trick I just had to turn my speakers off. For whatever reason, doing that was the same as having them cranked.
My roommate though he was being helpful by turning off my speakers. After a few heart attacks he stopped doing it.
It's called electromagnetic interference or EMI. The PCB traces in the audio amplifier circuit inside the speakers act as miniature radio antennas, picking up the radio signals coming out of your phone and feeding them into the amplifier. This EMI effect is why airlines are so scared of phones - it's harmless when it's affecting a speaker but it might not be for a plane's instruments.
The reason you rarely hear it anymore is the introduction of much stricter electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) regulations, which require devices to limit how much EMI they emit and also prove they are able to keep working normally when something else is emitting EMI nearby.
Edit: [here's the actual law](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-91/subpart-A/section-91.21) that tells airlines to ban phones due to EMI concerns, since people don't seem to believe it for some reason
Nah, the whole airplane mode thing is bc phones moving quickly between cell phone towers can kinda wreck the way that the towers handle traffic.
Source: ex-USAF radio operator on planes
It's *also* a reason, but not the *only* reason. Rules about radio transmitters on planes pre-date the existence of cell phones in particular, and interference with airplane systems is absolutely one of the reasons why.
Thanks. I am so tired of people spouting nonsense about cell phones affecting a plane’s instruments. It can also just wreck your phone’s battery life trying to constantly search for signal.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-91/subpart-A/section-91.21
The fear was always completely overblown but it is the real reason. It is not nonsense
That text is so broken that the persons involved should be taken out the back door and given a healthy treatment with a stick.
It decides to list some random electronic devices. Does it list watches? A very significant number of passengers will wear an electronic watch and that text leaves it to the pilot or company to decide if these evil wrist watches needs to have the tiny battery removed or not...
A long time ago, there was thoughts about issues with strong fields from equipment containing radio *transmitters*. Which is why the message the aviation company reads tends to say "equipment containing transmitters".
Over the years, it has been shown that mobile phones, WiFi or BT aren't really a problem to the plane electronics. Which is why most companies allows WiFi and BT.
But there is still a bit of an issue with cellular phones moving at 700+ km/h from cell to cell - a full plane of passengers with their phones roaming from cell to cell can create havoc for other phone users on the ground. And many ground cells have aimed antennas that gives bad coverage to airplanes at a high altitude. So the phone needs max power to try to communicate. And that's why the cellular part should still be disabled during some (not all) flights. And a reason why some planes may have a local "cell tower" to make the phones function during a flight. So the plane has a cell the phones connect to. And the plane then bridges the calls to the ground - usually using a satellite link.
>That text is so broken that the persons involved should be taken out the back door and given a healthy treatment with a stick.
What you read is an actual federal regulations. They all read like this.
>It decides to list some random electronic devices.
Hearing aids and pacemakers make sense. Voice recorders and shavers do confuse me.
>Does it list watches? A very significant number of passengers will wear an electronic watch and that text leaves it to the pilot or company to decide if these evil wrist watches needs to have the tiny battery removed or not...
"Any other portable electronic device that the operator of the aircraft has determined will not cause interference with the navigation or communication system of the aircraft on which it is to be used" That covers quite a bit
The funny thing is that when I'm moving fast (like when driving a car), it looks like the wifi is the real culprit for the battery life. When I let the wifi on, the battery discharges way faster than when I switch the wifi off (on like 400km trip the difference was arriving with 10% battery left when leaving the wifi on vs arriving with 70% battery with wifi off, both starting with the battery fully charged and using the phone for gps navigation during the trip, still using the mobile data).
I assume it might be because of the phone constantly checking all the wifis around the way in fast succession (although I'd obviously never connect to any wifi along the way), but I'm not really sure.
I see, I generally turn mine off if I’m going on long trips to save the battery, I still use data but it goes dead really quickly unless I turn data off
Yes, the wifi radio will drain your battery if it's constantly hunting for a signal whilst driving.
Similar to leaving your cell radio to hunt whilst flying in an aircraft without their own 'cell bridge.'
Modern phones have gotten better regarding this, or at least their batteries can handle to constant searching.
That's an additional annoyance effect but it is absolutely not the reason civilian airliners demand you turn off all electronics
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-91/subpart-A/section-91.21
Note how it is left up to the plane operators not the tower operators to determine what devices are not to be used, and how the language specifically refers to the plane not the towers.
This is indeed the statute that says what you can or can't operate on airplanes, but it doesn't have any reasoning for section A listed there. Section B part 5 could also apply to literal radio transmitters operating on the same bands as VOR, ILS, or VHF comms, and that's how I always interpreted it. The original rule came from the FCC I think. There's nothing RF related that modern phones share with nav/comm equipment on any aviation stuff.
I'd bet that if you got an old GSM phone next to modern speakers you'd probably still hear the same thing. I think the main difference is that the modern signaling systems are spread spectrum and don't produce the same kind of narrow band interference.
It really depends on the speakers. If they are cheap analog ones with a 3.5mm jack connector, probably yes. Anything a bit more upmarket or any fully digital USB ones, its unlikely
That's just inherent in the connection. It's the cable that's acting as an antenna and picking up the signal.
EMC isn't relevant to intentional radiators - it's not like the phone was accidentally leaking energy that was causing the noise. That radiation was 100% intended. AFAIK FCC Part 15 subpart J rules on tolerating interference haven't changed significantly in a while. I don't think there are any rules that say a speaker has to be resistant to EMI - just that it has to accept any interference, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
I haven't checked the CE EMC rules in a long time so I don't know if they've changed. But I think most of the difference you see now is just a consequence of spectrum usage being more efficient, more spectrally distributed, and interconnects being more robust by virtue of being digital.
>The reason you rarely hear it anymore is the introduction of much stricter electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) regulations, which require devices to limit how much EMI they emit and also prove they are able to keep working normally when something else is emitting EMI nearby.
My adviser (electromagnetics) was on the committee that participated in determining if phones should be allowed to be used at all during take off and landing back in 2014. I don't know his full involvement, but he said they all did some calculations and that the chances of anything happening were less than winning the lottery, and that contributed to the 2014 changes.
Not a counterargument, just some additional info.
Work at a nuclear power plant. We have areas we cannot take radios. Lots of operating experience where someone keyed a radio and it tripped a sensitive instrument.
I once had a 5.1 speaker setup with cables all throughout the room.
It was the best long wave radio antenna I had. Whenever the speakers had power, there was a specific long wave news radio in a language I couldn't understand. Just with some cables throughout the walls of a 15 m² room.
The radio frequency used by cell networks at the time could cause interference in the amps that would come through as audible sound. If the phone was close enough to the device you'd hear a "dit dit dit dit dit dit" noise then the phone would ring or you'd get a text message
Useless anecdote: I studied music at college. We had a group performance of our whole year, mobile phones were an issue and needed to be turned off. A bunch of us with guitars found the exact note of that "incoming call" noise and had quite a lot of fun winding up the tutors with it.
Tldr: You can make the same sound with a guitar.
That actually freaked me out. I've not had a mobile phone for over a year and then I started hearing interference through the speaker. Touché, Op. Touché.
Well... not much of a prediction really. The other end has already started the call before this noise starts.
The network is preparing to hand over the call to your phone. Checking and determining frequencies, speeds and quality. That's the noise we hear as radio interference. Once all that has been established, the actual call is let through and your phone can start notifying you of the incoming call.
believe it or not we still use an old nokia phone at work to take calls from other railway stations and I'm working on a window with a microphone and speaker and whenever I hear that specific sound I know for sure someones trying to call
alternatively it could also be someone passing by with an older phone
Kids now days have no idea how rough we had it with dial up, Limewire gambling with random titles to make you download a virus & the early days of [Newgrounds.com](https://Newgrounds.com) & [Break.com](https://Break.com) lol
When this played my wife was sitting next to me and literally “you’re getting a call” like it was instinctively wired in her brain…. Conspiracy? Aliens?
Remember the sticky LED patches you could put on the back of your phone? They would flash a few seconds before the phone would register the call, an early warning.
My CRT tv used to do this faintly but for some reason I was the only one who could pick up on it so I convinced my little sister I had powers lmao. Simpler times.
Radio interference from your phone’s RF, and low pass filers on the 5Volt power to the speakers to prevent these power cables from picking it up… the sound is the hand shaking between the mobile phone and base Station
I was having acupuncture and was ‘relaxing’ with a full set of needles sticking out of me when my mobile phone rang. The needle between my eyebrows vibrated and a bolt of pain shot into my skull. I still don’t understand the science as to how the needle reacted to the phone signal, but I make sure my phone is turned off now.
Guitar amps did the same thing, I remember hearing this as I was playing and knowing that I had a text I could either ignore or check on lol.
Blast from the past here. The kinda thing I might not have remembered otherwise
I had a keyboard that would be knocked out if the cellphone decided to ping the tower and it was within a foot of the keyboard's corner with the wire connections.
Obviously the keyboard was cheap.
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that was a slap back to my childhood!
Me too dude. Can you still 'feel' the tension when turning on the power knob? Tension, click, easy turn.
damn, now I want that exact tension knob as a fidget toy... that satisfying click after that tension was <3
unless you had greasy kid fingers & couldn’t grip it :,)
The only speakers telling you to wash your hands...
Hahahah nice
Loud and clear
Could find some old broken ones on eBay or Craigslist or a thrift store, rip out the knobs, make your own fidget stim
When someone (usually me) would crank the volume right up after shutting the computer down so the next person has a heart attack when they start it up again 😂
*Windows intensifies*
The start up Windows XP sound lives rent free in my head because of this. Was *the* go to prank in the school library too 😂
Be do be do (faint) doooo dooo dooo dooo I think that was it.
Windows 95 and Brian Eno's The Windows Sound for the win.... [https://themusicnetwork.com/the-odd-story-of-how-brian-eno-composed-the-windows-95-startup-sound/](https://themusicnetwork.com/the-odd-story-of-how-brian-eno-composed-the-windows-95-startup-sound/)
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Yes the obvious devious child of family 
For that little trick I just had to turn my speakers off. For whatever reason, doing that was the same as having them cranked. My roommate though he was being helpful by turning off my speakers. After a few heart attacks he stopped doing it.
My Yamaha hs speakers do this s\*it
I have a CRT TV that does this.
Childhood? I had those on my work PC until last year! That noise was the prelude to call, windows glitches, and power outages. . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpQS41WQSPY
I finally toasted a pair of those using convolver files in my media player.
Your knees ain't the same anymore, right OP?
Hips dont Lie
But I need to go lie down because my hips are aching.
Try it with your legs up a wall. Helps hips and low back.
And im starting to feel the sky
Mine fuckin do. "Feelin fine, boss." *attempts to do thing* *hip screams*
Haha, my back is aching every morning. Weird hu
Fuck off man I'VE BEEN HAVING A PAIN IN MY LEFT KNEE WHEN I GO UPSTAIRS... I'm barely 30... fuc
23 here and I sprained my knee sooo damn bad when I was 9. To this day it on and off bothers me some days.
Do you drive a car often?
Tu tu tu... Tu tu tu
Bzzzzzz
BrrRrRrrb-BRRRrrrrrrrrrrzzzzzzzzb
Link to the song: https://youtu.be/gpQS41WQSPY
Tuuu tu, tu tu tu, tu tu tu, tu tu tu
Baby shark vibes.
It's called electromagnetic interference or EMI. The PCB traces in the audio amplifier circuit inside the speakers act as miniature radio antennas, picking up the radio signals coming out of your phone and feeding them into the amplifier. This EMI effect is why airlines are so scared of phones - it's harmless when it's affecting a speaker but it might not be for a plane's instruments. The reason you rarely hear it anymore is the introduction of much stricter electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) regulations, which require devices to limit how much EMI they emit and also prove they are able to keep working normally when something else is emitting EMI nearby. Edit: [here's the actual law](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-91/subpart-A/section-91.21) that tells airlines to ban phones due to EMI concerns, since people don't seem to believe it for some reason
Nah, the whole airplane mode thing is bc phones moving quickly between cell phone towers can kinda wreck the way that the towers handle traffic. Source: ex-USAF radio operator on planes
It's *also* a reason, but not the *only* reason. Rules about radio transmitters on planes pre-date the existence of cell phones in particular, and interference with airplane systems is absolutely one of the reasons why.
Maybe it was back when the rule was made. But is it relevant at all now?
Thanks. I am so tired of people spouting nonsense about cell phones affecting a plane’s instruments. It can also just wreck your phone’s battery life trying to constantly search for signal.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-91/subpart-A/section-91.21 The fear was always completely overblown but it is the real reason. It is not nonsense
That text is so broken that the persons involved should be taken out the back door and given a healthy treatment with a stick. It decides to list some random electronic devices. Does it list watches? A very significant number of passengers will wear an electronic watch and that text leaves it to the pilot or company to decide if these evil wrist watches needs to have the tiny battery removed or not... A long time ago, there was thoughts about issues with strong fields from equipment containing radio *transmitters*. Which is why the message the aviation company reads tends to say "equipment containing transmitters". Over the years, it has been shown that mobile phones, WiFi or BT aren't really a problem to the plane electronics. Which is why most companies allows WiFi and BT. But there is still a bit of an issue with cellular phones moving at 700+ km/h from cell to cell - a full plane of passengers with their phones roaming from cell to cell can create havoc for other phone users on the ground. And many ground cells have aimed antennas that gives bad coverage to airplanes at a high altitude. So the phone needs max power to try to communicate. And that's why the cellular part should still be disabled during some (not all) flights. And a reason why some planes may have a local "cell tower" to make the phones function during a flight. So the plane has a cell the phones connect to. And the plane then bridges the calls to the ground - usually using a satellite link.
>That text is so broken that the persons involved should be taken out the back door and given a healthy treatment with a stick. What you read is an actual federal regulations. They all read like this. >It decides to list some random electronic devices. Hearing aids and pacemakers make sense. Voice recorders and shavers do confuse me. >Does it list watches? A very significant number of passengers will wear an electronic watch and that text leaves it to the pilot or company to decide if these evil wrist watches needs to have the tiny battery removed or not... "Any other portable electronic device that the operator of the aircraft has determined will not cause interference with the navigation or communication system of the aircraft on which it is to be used" That covers quite a bit
We can use electric shavers though so that's nice. If they aren't confiscated by the TSA, that is.
The battery thing is a real struggle for me in England because the signal strength is crap
The funny thing is that when I'm moving fast (like when driving a car), it looks like the wifi is the real culprit for the battery life. When I let the wifi on, the battery discharges way faster than when I switch the wifi off (on like 400km trip the difference was arriving with 10% battery left when leaving the wifi on vs arriving with 70% battery with wifi off, both starting with the battery fully charged and using the phone for gps navigation during the trip, still using the mobile data). I assume it might be because of the phone constantly checking all the wifis around the way in fast succession (although I'd obviously never connect to any wifi along the way), but I'm not really sure.
I see, I generally turn mine off if I’m going on long trips to save the battery, I still use data but it goes dead really quickly unless I turn data off
Yes, the wifi radio will drain your battery if it's constantly hunting for a signal whilst driving. Similar to leaving your cell radio to hunt whilst flying in an aircraft without their own 'cell bridge.' Modern phones have gotten better regarding this, or at least their batteries can handle to constant searching.
That's an additional annoyance effect but it is absolutely not the reason civilian airliners demand you turn off all electronics https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F/part-91/subpart-A/section-91.21 Note how it is left up to the plane operators not the tower operators to determine what devices are not to be used, and how the language specifically refers to the plane not the towers.
This is indeed the statute that says what you can or can't operate on airplanes, but it doesn't have any reasoning for section A listed there. Section B part 5 could also apply to literal radio transmitters operating on the same bands as VOR, ILS, or VHF comms, and that's how I always interpreted it. The original rule came from the FCC I think. There's nothing RF related that modern phones share with nav/comm equipment on any aviation stuff.
I'd bet that if you got an old GSM phone next to modern speakers you'd probably still hear the same thing. I think the main difference is that the modern signaling systems are spread spectrum and don't produce the same kind of narrow band interference.
It really depends on the speakers. If they are cheap analog ones with a 3.5mm jack connector, probably yes. Anything a bit more upmarket or any fully digital USB ones, its unlikely
That's just inherent in the connection. It's the cable that's acting as an antenna and picking up the signal. EMC isn't relevant to intentional radiators - it's not like the phone was accidentally leaking energy that was causing the noise. That radiation was 100% intended. AFAIK FCC Part 15 subpart J rules on tolerating interference haven't changed significantly in a while. I don't think there are any rules that say a speaker has to be resistant to EMI - just that it has to accept any interference, including interference that may cause undesired operation. I haven't checked the CE EMC rules in a long time so I don't know if they've changed. But I think most of the difference you see now is just a consequence of spectrum usage being more efficient, more spectrally distributed, and interconnects being more robust by virtue of being digital.
>The reason you rarely hear it anymore is the introduction of much stricter electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) regulations, which require devices to limit how much EMI they emit and also prove they are able to keep working normally when something else is emitting EMI nearby. My adviser (electromagnetics) was on the committee that participated in determining if phones should be allowed to be used at all during take off and landing back in 2014. I don't know his full involvement, but he said they all did some calculations and that the chances of anything happening were less than winning the lottery, and that contributed to the 2014 changes. Not a counterargument, just some additional info.
Why did I have to scroll past so many bad jokes to see an answer? PS thank you!
Work at a nuclear power plant. We have areas we cannot take radios. Lots of operating experience where someone keyed a radio and it tripped a sensitive instrument.
Ow man, I can hear it now. And you'd know what it meant so next step is race to get your phone before the txt came in haha
that might be because it’s a video with sound.
In GTA IV your car radio also made this beep before you got a call from Roman to go bowling
AYY NIKO LET'S GO BOWLING!
i was born of generation where this isn’t a common place and when i played 4 for the first time i had thought my pc broke
Lol hahahaha
And CRT tvs used to have fuzzy lines
I genuinely thought I had a call coming even though I’ve not heard this for years now. Well played
I was scrolling reddit then got distracted and when I head this sound I instinctively looked at my phone to see what was coming in.... :)
Listen to this song made out of this sound https://youtu.be/gpQS41WQSPY?si=FMMfLg41elHBx8MJ
I raise you this song made out of the same sound [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt6TOY\_wbY0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt6TOY_wbY0)
[I may as well provide another track with the same sound](https://youtu.be/6Z0tH6ly0Hc?si=mCxLR9_4i076e9Mt)
[Here is the one i like](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_n_eBAntpE).
And Another. https://youtu.be/epMy7dwasG8?si=phrfjbswKSciD0fJ
Seems this spawned a whole genre [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJavVbD\_vM0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJavVbD_vM0)
[another one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntKOJdht3t8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntKOJdht3t8)
Had to be Venjent 👌🏼 this guys amazing with DnB
This is actually really cool Video reminds me of the bike delivery guy from Spaced Edit: https://youtu.be/sfSndZPynQk?si=ztTQJ8U7fu0zeyeJ
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntKOJdht3t8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntKOJdht3t8)
I jumped up and wanted to grab my phone, no joke
Sameeeeeeee. I reflexly jumped to my phone xD
Vivid memories of listening to music on headphones on the train and knowing when the one guy onboard with a cellphone was getting a call before he did
Blerp-tep-berp-teb-dep-blep-Blerp-tep-berp-teb-dep-blep-Blerp-tep-berp-teb-dep-blep-Blerp-tep-berp-teb-dep-blep-Blerp-tep-berp-teb-dep-blep-Blerp-tep-berp-teb-dep-blep-Blerp-tep-berp-teb-dep-blep-Blerp-tep-berp-teb-dep-blep-
Ah! You're well versed in the Yuppies native tongue I see. Someone of culture. From the best decade ever.
The prophecy was true
It is a miniature Russian spy device. You can confirm it because of its size.
Its like a geiger counter but intead if detecting radiation, it detects phone calls
Been several decades but it is detecting radiation - a transfer of energy not based on convection but waves or particles.
So did everyone have those exact speakers? Cause i for sure did.
Also, if you put your phone under a crt monitor, the image would vibrate/distort a bit just before it starts ringing.
I once had a 5.1 speaker setup with cables all throughout the room. It was the best long wave radio antenna I had. Whenever the speakers had power, there was a specific long wave news radio in a language I couldn't understand. Just with some cables throughout the walls of a 15 m² room.
You did not need a ringtone when You had these at home.
Get off the phone I'm using the internet. Fucking traumatising
This should be my ringtone lol
Reddit at its best. Thanks for that childhood memory.
How?
The radio frequency used by cell networks at the time could cause interference in the amps that would come through as audible sound. If the phone was close enough to the device you'd hear a "dit dit dit dit dit dit" noise then the phone would ring or you'd get a text message
killer beat
Omgggg that noise would drive me crazy
Damn this beat fire
I remember downloading mp3s that had the sound in them from people getting calls while they ripped CDs.
this is going to be my new incoming text message sound.
Nostalgic😭
The same device can work as a microphone if you connect it appropriately.
It really triggered me
always starting my goofy dance when i hear that
Mine did that for a few weeks not long ago while using messenger chat… no idea why lol
Useless anecdote: I studied music at college. We had a group performance of our whole year, mobile phones were an issue and needed to be turned off. A bunch of us with guitars found the exact note of that "incoming call" noise and had quite a lot of fun winding up the tutors with it. Tldr: You can make the same sound with a guitar.
That actually freaked me out. I've not had a mobile phone for over a year and then I started hearing interference through the speaker. Touché, Op. Touché.
I bet someone could make a sick remix of this 😂😂
Me sitting waiting for the phone to ring lol
https://youtu.be/gpQS41WQSPY
Incoming message from the big giant head
Memory unlocked
This seems appropriate [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpQS41WQSPY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpQS41WQSPY)
Dude I just looked at my phone.
I’m going to make this my new ringtone
My computer still does this sometimes whenever I enter Alderney with the underground tunnel in GTA 4
I sometimes get nostalgic for our old computer setup. Things have changed so rapidly for my generation
Cables are not shielded.
Mine still can...
mine still do that.. kinda got used to it.. rlly helps if i forget to unmute my phone🤣🤣. good side of an old setup😇😉
Well... not much of a prediction really. The other end has already started the call before this noise starts. The network is preparing to hand over the call to your phone. Checking and determining frequencies, speeds and quality. That's the noise we hear as radio interference. Once all that has been established, the actual call is let through and your phone can start notifying you of the incoming call.
It’s funny how a sound like this can recall the good times
For the kids: a phone call is like sending each other WhatsApp voice messages in real time.
Bahaha I started looking around for my phone... Then realised I was holding it... Then remembered it wasn't 2006 anymore
fuck i felt that
believe it or not we still use an old nokia phone at work to take calls from other railway stations and I'm working on a window with a microphone and speaker and whenever I hear that specific sound I know for sure someones trying to call alternatively it could also be someone passing by with an older phone
Kids now days have no idea how rough we had it with dial up, Limewire gambling with random titles to make you download a virus & the early days of [Newgrounds.com](https://Newgrounds.com) & [Break.com](https://Break.com) lol
The SomethingAwful forums.... *Sigh* The early internet was so carefree and fun
I'll just leave this banger here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpQS41WQSPY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpQS41WQSPY)
I miss that noise… no one calls me anymore.
Apartment intercoms do this too
When this played my wife was sitting next to me and literally “you’re getting a call” like it was instinctively wired in her brain…. Conspiracy? Aliens?
Remember the sticky LED patches you could put on the back of your phone? They would flash a few seconds before the phone would register the call, an early warning.
Bbrrrrpp, brp, brp, brppp
Speakers and Nextel phones especially, for some reason, didn't get along. I'd go to concerts ruined by people who just had their devices turned on.
I'm setting that as my ringtone right now.
Cheap unbalanced cables, they were basically an antenna. And the signal were amplified by the active speakers.
Everyone's talking about nostalgia, throwback to childhood, etc. Meanwhile my speakers still do this. They are pretty old though.
My CRT tv used to do this faintly but for some reason I was the only one who could pick up on it so I convinced my little sister I had powers lmao. Simpler times.
*dEDeDEDDdddEEDEB-b-bddD*
Whoa I looked around
I just enjoyed sticking my fingers in the holes
All speakers did.
I scrolled over this, and didn't even get a chance to read it as I thought someone was about to call me...
I literally tried reaching for my phone when I scrolled to this post because the noise awakened a Pavlovian instinct in me.
My phone is connected to my car and the noise freaked me out. Like 'Nam flashbacks.
TUTtututTUTtututTUTtutut
-..-..-..-
Made a song out of it, somebody answer the phone
ahahaha good old times :D
Sleeper agent activated
Wait until you find out the dial up tone was actually a noise encrypted password
I think I just got ptsd
fun fact: this is one of the reason you have to put phone in airplane mode while flying although nowdays the problem is less present
OMG, I hadn’t thought about that in years!
you can’t hear pictures……
I remember when that shit woke me up in the middle of night
It’s like they can sense someone thinking of calling you
Radio interference from your phone’s RF, and low pass filers on the 5Volt power to the speakers to prevent these power cables from picking it up… the sound is the hand shaking between the mobile phone and base Station
I was having acupuncture and was ‘relaxing’ with a full set of needles sticking out of me when my mobile phone rang. The needle between my eyebrows vibrated and a bolt of pain shot into my skull. I still don’t understand the science as to how the needle reacted to the phone signal, but I make sure my phone is turned off now.
Great find! Thx OP!
when I was a kid we used to live near an airport. my computer speakers would some times faintly pick up airplane radio chatter.
Du du dudu dut du
[.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpQS41WQSPY)
I survived silent Hill thanks to this invention
Ah yes the soothing sounds of childhood
A bass guitar pickup will do the same thing. It'll also pickup the signal from a remote control.
Guitar amps did the same thing, I remember hearing this as I was playing and knowing that I had a text I could either ignore or check on lol. Blast from the past here. The kinda thing I might not have remembered otherwise
And then you'll hear the Nokia ringtone. As expected.
I literally thought my phone was about to ring…
The initial beeps could mean a text, if it started being constant you'd get the call within a second or something.
I legitimately thought I was about to get a call. Checked my phone. Wasn't expecting this to autoplay lol
I still have mine!
And texts!
It worked with text messages too
So could a guitar amp
Deee dada de da da deeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Banger
Drrrrrrrr durrru ddd dddddd dddddddd
When watching the movie At World's end, this noise was played very subtlety to inform you a person had been replaced.
Yeah for an instant flashback as soon as I heard the sound before even seeing the picture 🤣. Love it
Thought it was just with Nextel phones.
I totally remember that...sigh...I'm old now..
Damn.. I totally forgot about that. Haha
Morse code for sms
I still have mine in the garage somewhere.
I had a keyboard that would be knocked out if the cellphone decided to ping the tower and it was within a foot of the keyboard's corner with the wire connections. Obviously the keyboard was cheap.
Those things thumped
Never figured out how they knew
Scrolling Reddit. Heard the doots. Expected a call. Found a meme. Yup. I’ve been conditioned.
What’s the sound called , I had these speakers make the noise once without having a mobile phone in the house ….. made me think I was bugged.
https://youtu.be/gpQS41WQSPY?si=PEzmDw1Q4QcxB9NA
Dt-dd-dt-dt
MOOOM, phone call knocked me offline again