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Patrick Perdue#AudioMo day 26:
I've been seeing a lot about Linux in my timeline today...
"What, really? It's the fediverse!"
Yeah, yeah, I know. More than usual.
To that end, I present this silly thing I made on October 23, 2016, called "Annie Linux."
@BorrisInABox @bill Funny story re Annie Linux: so my friends and I (including Bill Dengler and Bianca from Australia/Germany) have a shared music library we shuffle with Liquidsoap for streaming, a PBX (for music on hold), and on a Discord server; Bill set the whole thing up. Along with music it contains a jingles folder with silly ads that are played every so often ... one of them is the Annie Linux ad, which has been there for a few years now and is still a hit.
@BorrisInABox @bill Also "Please Press One" was one of the first ones in one of our general music folders and the Carbon Song is in the Christmas directory. I found the Annie Linux ad while rifling through your audio directory for the Carbon Song; I was reminded of it when Bill and Bianca visited a phone museum together. I was once joking about how amazingly bad it would've been to put the audio of the falling tree in the jingles folder ...
@BorrisInABox I remember finding this on the Dectalk archive or a similar site once. Good times.
@HunterXWorld Why ever would it have been there? Weird.
@BorrisInABox Again, it could've been another site, IDK. But yeah, back when us blindies had massive websites literally dedicated to weird audio. It was like AudioPub before AudioPub, or if you remember it, the wild west version of AnyAudio.net.
@HunterXWorld I remember the late 90s and random FTP sites. So... yeah.
@BorrisInABox Yeah. That was long before I was terminally online, but I almost wish I had been born earlier. The internet was so much simpler back then. Too many people are eager to claim that "older internet = better internet," but seeing as I had no real experience of the older internet, seeing as I got online in the mid 2000's, I don't think I have the right to judge.
@HunterXWorld There are definitely parts of it I don't miss, but, yeah, it was a much simpler time, mostly free of corporate this-and-that, trackers everywhere, etc.
@BorrisInABox Yeah, I would definitely kill for an internet where every company wasn't the personal data equivalent of cookie monster.
@BorrisInABox I really liked that one. It was cool.