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Ta-da! The history of Windows’ classic startup sounds

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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Microsoft held a competition, worked with a rock star and questioned whether not a start up sound was even needed. If you guess it right, you'll be entered to win a super soft 20 thousand herds tea shirt which you can wear to make all your friends jealous. And here's this episode's mystery sound. Those sounds were made by clippy, the paper clip assistant who used to be in microsoft office.

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