#29 Let It Beep

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Nov 27, 201718:01Arts

For over two decades, every time you turned on a Mac, you were greeted by a familiar sound. It's appeared as a punchline in The Simpsons, in movies like WALL•E. It's a sound some of us tried to hide from our parents as w...

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