Word: beeps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discovered we can't go near the Science Center because the beepers don't work around there. When we finally called in, they told us they'd tried to beep us with two calls," he said...
...discreetly dash off a message: "Running late. Be patient." With the tap of a pencil-like stylus, your note is beamed through the ether to the other side of town, where it lodges in a similar device, stowed in your daughter's book bag, and sets off a little beep. She hauls out her notepad, reads your message on the screen, scrawls across the bottom, "Cool. I'll hang out," and beams it back to your screen. It's now 5:32. You breathe a little easier and start to listen to what the man behind the desk...
...BEGINNING WAS THE BEEP -- simple, utilitarian and sufficient to alert a computer user that his machine had been turned on or that a floppy disk had failed. Then came the Macintosh, with its built-in sound chips and an onscreen control panel that enabled Mac enthusiasts to replace the beep with a boing, a clink-clank or a monkey's chirp. Finally, last spring Microsoft put sound- control software in the latest version of its Windows program, extending the power to customize a computer's noises to the 90 million owners of IBM PCs and compatible machines...
...never heard techno pop so self-indulgent. The electronic gadgets beep and boom in delicious excess--"S.O.S." sounds like R2D2 having an orgasm. The album is so incredibly boppy and catchy it's downright scary; these melodies will stick in your head obsessively, providing a manic soundtrack to your thoughts for weeks to come...
Weisser: At first it was just messages. The very first time I reached his answering machine, I had to listen to a 10-minute taped diatribe about how evil the Jews and the blacks were. There was a beep at the end to leave a message, and I said, "Larry, you'd better think about all this hatred you're doing, that you are involved in, because you're going to have to deal with God one day, and it's not going to be easy." Larry is disabled, and another time I called, I said, "Larry, the very first...