Not long ago , I require youfor your pick of the worst voice that technology has anathemise us with . You answer with the shrill , shreiking screams of text edition across the internet . And here are a few of the standouts from our collective inclination of the most unappealing blips and bloops .
https://gizmodo.com/what-is-the-most-horrible-technology-sound-1690889727
Dial-up modems
Old dial - up modems . Like fingernails on a blackboard .
– mwhite66
You got my top 2 . Dot matrix printing machine and telephone dial - up modem .
But I think everyone has forget the cortege of sound core that came with Windows ’ 98 . Like the sound of a door fill up every metre you closed a window . It was the first thing everyone turned off .
– unimportantrantings2
Ringtones of all kinds
But specifically Samsung :
samsung whistle ringtone :
– Dr. Nemmo and his time - move around submarinehttp://youtu.be/Z5h411OcttA
I had a carrel neighbor that had this for his SMS notice . And it went off several time an hr . Douche would never switch his phone to hover .
– TheAngryMobhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5h411 …
This ! It seems every clock time I ride a subway , one-half of the passengers has a Samsung telephone set . And they all leave it on the default sound .
– jbatubara
Every crashing person having a Samsung have this as a default notification . For fucks sake .
– afterace
And Apple as well :
The ducking marimba ringtone .
Marimba ! ! :
– Dr. Nemmo and his time - travelling zep
As well as a dark - horse or two :
Obnoxious ring feeling :
But just pretty much anything audible :
slowly — your coworker ’s ringtone . Nothing is regretful .
( Of course , he probably find the same … )
– flaminio
I will never see why people who baby-sit at a desk staring at a screen all day have their ringtones / telephone set noise on at all . Just position the phone in your outer boundary and TURN THAT tinker’s dam TO SILENT . Vibrate AT MOST .
– McGarnagle
This !
Ringtones on portable equipment are the new bad breath .
– Clay_T
The dying screams of a hard drive
concentrated thrust buzzing … .a.k.a . the strait of your billfold crying .
– sfmountainbiker
Back in the onetime days , the first tough disc private road I be intimate of were these lusus naturae about the size of a mini - fridge , and there was a stack of rust - covered platters in there , with heads in - between . They matter a net ton , and they might have a electrical capacity of 256 MB or so . Real beasts . If the bearing were to get into out , or a wobble started , or the read head got wedge in - between record , the interference was a deafening screech with fag overtones . There might be smoke and sometimes the Al Faran of an overheat motor . utterly awful to get wind . It was like lots of little , torment data gnome all screaming in agony . Here ’s a clip of a modest hard drive that ’s crash . reckon this speech sound scaled up by about 100 clip . It ’s chilling to the soul at any scale . ( Jump t0 1:20 )
– ninjagin
First I would have to go with the sound of a hard private road ’s read heads digging into one or more of the phonograph recording .
A close second would be the pop of a power supply as it of a sudden ( and forcefully ) impart up on liveliness and make it ’s way to the great scrapyard in the sky . That naughty hassock of smoke that emerges from the back of the computer might as well be in the shape of a dollar sign as you know you are run to be replacing just about everything within that guinea pig …
– Mark Duckworth
If you mean “ horrible ” as in strikes reverence in the heart , rather than “ irritates the heck out of me and turns me into a likely ax murderer of technical school objects ” , I nominate loud clicking or labour sound come from the hard disk . really , any strait descend from the hard disk get to my origin melt down cold .
– theimmc
The sound of a hard cause failing , as the sound of the head that keeps seek and seeking and never quites .
– Bryan Price
The living screams of a floppy drive
Floppy drive doing their thing . fortuitously , very much a affair of the past tense now .
They used to sound alright – a muted whirring and clicking , it was almost reassuring – but I dunno , I guess in the recent years floppy campaign were made so fabulously stingily that lineament blend the right way out the windowpane . The whirring turned to an ugly grinding , and the clicking always made me sure that something was getting smashed to bits in there .
On the other hand , I in reality like modem sound ? I guess it must be a nostalgia thing . For me , that sound think the start of super well-chosen play ( if painfully slow ) internet times .
– RedeyesUK
I realize that I ’m date myself but the sound a floppy disk effort made when it can no longer read the disk on which you have the only written matter of your research newspaper .
– He Who Must Not Be diagnose
Tests of the emergency broadcast system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntxxxj69UxA
Anyone watch animated cartoon in the XC ? Anyone watch cartoon in the 90s only to be disrupt by the freakiest tone and voice possible ? Oh yes . This is the Emergency Broadcast System .
– Lord Amaterasu
Those still get used , and I rule it more rasping than the old modem speech sound because it just comes up out of the blue and also interrupt whatever you ’re watching .
– umataro42
I used to work at a public radio station , where we ’d have to do EAS ( Emergency Alert System ) tests once a workweek . Most of the time they were automated , but we also had to do occasional verbal manner of speaking tests .
So we ’d push a push on a black box under the table , those creak step went out , and then we would have to say , in the most serious but un - alarming voice possible :
“ THIS IS A trial OF THE EMERGENCY alerting organisation . THIS IS ONLY A exam . IN THE EVENT OF AN ACTUAL EMERGENCY , THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING YOU IMPORTANT selective information . THIS TEST IS NOW CONCLUDED ” .
[ all of our scripts in radio are printed in all - detonating machine ]
But ..
There was a red binder of other affair to say too , in the case of an ACTUAL interior emergency , which we never used . These would be thing like a nuclear rap or monumental civil unrest . They were all generic messages , state things like :
“ WE INTERRUPT OUR PROGRAMMING , THIS IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY ”
“ THIS IS AN EMERGENCY ACTION NOTIFICATION . ALL disseminate SYSTEMS SHALL TRANSMIT THIS MESSAGE . ALL EAS PARTICIPANTS SHOULD FOLLOW activating PROCEDURES ”
“ THIS IS AN EMERGENCY ACTION NOTIFICATION REQUESTED BY THE WHITE HOUSE . THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES , OR HIS REPRESENTATIVE , WILL SHORTLY DELIVER A MESSAGE OVER THE EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM ”
During interruption I would translate through the handbook and imagine the scenario in which I ’d have to break it out . I was often the only one in the studio , especially in the evenings or weekends , and it was gently terrific .
– sigmaoctans
Someone else’s hammer-typing
Someday somebody will make a muffler for keyboards . Somehow this guy thinks it ’s in reality relaxing
– JBRoninhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn4d5F …
I do n’t comment the sound of my own , but other people ’s do get annoying . I have a champion whose typing is violent .
– ifyoucanreadthis youareapope
Every alarm sound ever
That frightful , generic , digital alarm clock buzzing beep . After having to wake up for a summer task at 5:30 every morning I refuse to ever have an alarm clock that makes this speech sound in my menage ever again .
– Andrew Liszewski
The part I detest is when they play that sound on a commercial , I get all tense and angry that they hit me with that trigger . I still have my clock , after long ago switching to cell phone consternation , just for the utmost wakeup component . So when I need to get up at 4 for body of work or to catch an airplane , I ’ll use it .
– bourgeoismiddleman
Not as terribad as my alarm clock from childhood :
So many school twenty-four hours begin with Teela yelling at me …
– THECRIMS0NKING
I submit this warning signal phone .
– Eric Limer
By a farseeing shot .
– marshamallow
sustain to disagree , by all odds Old Car Horn . The ultimate “ SHIT WHAT YES I AM alive safe dawn ” alarm I have ever found .
– EljhHck
Because really , every alarum is garbage .
Anything you use as an alarm auditory sensation over and over and over again will finally make need to tear your ears off . The only thing I have found works is to mix alarm sound up . One morning this … Other morning time that … And so on .
– Joe Black
Or just never wake up at all .
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