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technology related sensory memories from my childhood
sliding the metal cover on floppy disks
the slight resistance of inserting cassette and video tapes
ripping off the strips of holed paper off of dot matrix printer paper
rolling the wheel on a disposable camera to take another photo
The heaviness and rubber texture of the roller ball in a computer mouse, and the little ring of lint
Unkinking the curly cord of a telephone while you talked
The -peww sound and slowly fading image of a crt monitor turning off, and then running your finger through the static on the dusty glass
The crunch of opening or closing a plastic Disney vhs cover
The sound effects in kidpix
Extending and collapsing metal antennas and using them as magic wands
Manually rewinding cassette tapes by spinning them around my fingers
Playing with the rubber casing of the buttons on a Walkman–pulling them away, rotating them, slipping them from side to side on the stiff posts of the buttons
The audio and visual static at the end of a videotape
The satisfying thwap-thwap-thwap as you page through a well-filled CD sleeve book
How weird and small and light the first cordless phone felt
Feeling the warm smooth sides of our first computer monitor in the early 90s to find the knob to manually adjust the colors on the screen (talk about old school)
The electric whine and hum of the elementary school printers as they processed our print requests and spit out miles of matrix paper
The noise that a VHS tape made when it was being rewound
Flipping the cassette around in our hands until we found the right way for it to fit into the receiver so that it would be accepted and wouldn’t get stuck
The Windows 95 start screen intro noise
Every single sound effect for the kitschy screen savers that we downloaded (haunted mansion, flying toaster, baby dance, underwater, Macarena macaroni, etc)
Holding your CD player just right so it wouldn’t skip and rattle the cd inside
The ka-chunk of the VHS player spitting out the videotape, the registering noise as you pushed it back in
degaussing a computer monitor
the CRT channel changing high-pitched sound
the plastic shifting noise of holding a phone for too long in your hand
the playstation 1 intro noise
the apple ii single-button mouse click noise
flipping through a box of 5″ floppy disks
plugging in A/V cables into the back of a TV set
the click of an old controller joystick as you moved it around
the first digital phone rings that were super muted
the BZZZZZ of an early electric alarm clock
the “fwap” of a flippy alarm clock turning over