also wanted to add i am a proud owner of a windows xp 2001 launch tshirt and it is by far my favourite at home big shirt… has all the sponsors as the back with their old outdated logos!!
colinlrhoades If it increases the chances of someone putting a 'Designed for Windows 95' sticker on a Tesla, it would be irresponsible to keep it to myself.
in my ewaste scavenging, i sometimes find people's old boot disks they kept around for emergencies. from what i can tell, you put together just enough of an MS-DOS installation for the computer to boot up again when everything else was going wrong. you feel a sense of connection to someone from 30 years ago - we're both just trying to get these things working again and hoping whatever ails our PC is within our means to fix. they seem personal, they have people's names on them, they have dates and instructions. you can tell it mattered pictured: me using some of these boot disks i found in the trash to update the BIOS of an old server motherboard
Here it is, folks! Volume I of what could very well be a continuous project. Thank you so much to everyone that submitted - I smiled the entire time I was putting this together. It's best listened to with headphones ☺️
Liner Notes:
This collection of field recordings is a collaborative effort with users of PI.FYI, each of which recorded their own pieces. It features audio from all over the world and exhibits eclectic moments from London Underground commutes to cuckoo bird calls in Dhaka to the sounds of a century-old American diner. Online communities like PI.FYI often represent a diverse set of people, places, and experiences, but together, the submissions form a living collage that highlights the commonalities of modern life - a unifying message for such a tumultuous time. The first track features all of the sounds played at once in an attempt to create an audio snapshot of an online community but in their offline lives. The individual recordings are unedited except for minor gain and compression adjustments for consistency across the collection.
