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7 sounds you'll probably never hear again
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REMEMBER WHEN THESE sounds were part of your life every day?
Now they have (pretty much all) gone to the great soundboard in the sky. You may never hear these things again:
This sound when your computer started up:
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This early ringtone:
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This sound when you put in your favourite album:
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This sound before the TV news:
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This sound on the line when you dialled your friend’s number:
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This sound when you rewound your favourite scene:
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This sound when you logged on to that new thing, the ‘internet’:
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