Sounds We've Lost: Echoes of the Past

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2016

⏱️ 14 minutes

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When was the last time you heard a dial-up modem? A dot matrix printer? A CD dropping into its plastic tray? Did you know it would be the last time? We talk to Rick Adams, a British reporter, about the impact of Big Ben being silenced for repairs next year and Madeline Ashby, a futurist, who has some pretty wild ideas of what sounds we’re about to lose... and have already lost but haven’t realized it yet. Check out Defacto Sound, the studios that produced Twenty Thousand Hertz, hosted by Dallas Taylor. Consider supporting the show at donate.20k.org Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/extinction Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From DeFacto Sound, you're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
0:08.0	The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.
0:13.0	I'm Dallas Taylor.
0:14.0	This is the story behind the sounds that have come and gone.
0:21.6	There are all kinds of sounds that used to be common
0:24.6	that most of us just don't hear in modern times.
0:28.6	Horses, clopping by, pulling carriages,
0:32.6	the steam train coming through town.
0:36.6	Telegraphs.
0:40.3	Automobile engines sputtering to life.
0:46.3	Picking up the phone on the wall in your kitchen,
0:50.3	you'd hold it to your ear and hear a dial tone. Most people just have cell phones nowadays, but it used to be you had to have a dial tone.
1:00.0	And if there wasn't a dial tone, it meant someone else was on the line.
1:04.0	Oh, sorry.
1:05.0	And you had to wait to make your call.
1:08.0	Then there's the dot matrix printer.
1:14.6	It was so loud and took so incredibly long just to make one sheet.
1:20.6	But at least you had a hard copy of your work.
1:23.6	And ripping the perforation off the edges.
1:28.4	Ugh.
1:33.8	Remember the dial-up modem?
1:37.3	It used to be that we plug our computers into a phone line and call the internet, or however that worked.
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