The US Library of Congress has added the Windows 95 boot sound to its National Recording Registry (NRR). That means the sound is now part of a list of recordings that are “culturally, historically, or ...

“These are the sounds of America – our wide-ranging history and culture,” Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden explained, to The Washington Post. “The National Recording Registry is our evolving ...

You might say it’s difficult for any piece of music to make an impression in just 6 seconds, but PC users who remember booting up in the 1990s would disagree. So does the Library of Congress. This ...

The Windows 95 reboot chime was one of 25 audio works added to the National Recording Registry this year. Brooks Kraft LLC / Sygma via Getty Images When users turned on their computers during the ...

Windows 95 was launched in, you guessed it, 1995. July 14, to be exact, meaning that it's the 30th anniversary of the much-beloved (it's still not just me, is it?) operating system this year. Save the ...

Listen to the 10 most memorable sound effects in the history of tech From the Mac startup chime to the dial-up modem handshake, the past few decades have generated some unforgettable sound effects in ...