655

submitted 9 months ago by jeze3D@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

58 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 42 points 9 months ago

Mp3? These young whippersnappers and their modern shenanigans. 8 bit MIDI is all the sound you'll ever need on your cellphone!

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 26 points 9 months ago

I actually made some cash in 8th grade making ringtones. All i did is looking up what buttons to press on the 3210 on the internet. The weird part was that pretty much strangers would just give me their phone over night because i was too lazy to print it out and do it in school. Rumours were around that i had some weird ass set-up at home like deadmau5 to turn axel f into a midi. I was just using altavista and pressed buttons.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago

That pre internet era was amazing ... that sweet spot where the internet was just starting to grow but not everyone had it yet.

My brother had a thriving business at around 1997 1998 1999 ripping custom CDs for people. He kept a library of 40 GB hard drive of mp3 and everyone thought he was a god that could make custom music CDs. I played a few of them a while ago and they are absolute crap but at the time no one cared what they sounded like as long as it was new and customized to what they wanted.

The amazing thing was, his business appeared and disappeared in a matter of about two years. One moment everyone wanted him .. then everything and everyone moved on and his business was done.

[-] LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch 1 points 9 months ago

Crazy thing is... that's what Trevor Noah did as a youth in South Africa. Had a whole bootleg CD burning business until his setup died and they couldn't get the files back.

So he turned his life around and became extremely famous in the US.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 months ago

I used to have the Monkey Island intro midi as a ringtone. It would start real quiet giving me time to either go somewhere I can talk or if I just wouldn't notice it would become loud enough to notice later.

[-] Pistcow@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I had a midi background for my Angelfire web page.

[-] NessD@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Polyphonic Ringtones? Ha! We had to type in some strange numbers to get beeps to change their tune!

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Aww yeah that’s the tune to funky town

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I tried so hard to figure that shit out but never managed to actually make anything good (I have zero musical talent), but we had this one friend in the group who had, so they'd always have one of our phones, composing our ringtones lol.. I feel old 😂