Visit the Museum of Endangered Sounds, and Experience a Blast
from Technology’s Past  As gearheads go, Brendan Chilcutt’s a
pretty sentimental guy, and not just because he signs his
correspondence with “love.” In January, 2012, he founded the
Museum of Endangered Sounds to keep outmoded technology’s most
iconic noises from vanishing from the collective memory. Click
on any image in the museum’s online collection to be transported
in the Proustian sense.  Some of the exhibits—a manual
typewriter, a rotary phone—were already amply preserved, thanks
to a proliferation of cinematic appearances in their heyday.
Others might well have slipped away unnoticed, if not for
Chilcutt’s curatorial efforts. Remember that number you could
call to have a recorded voice inform you of the correct time?
How about the static of an analog TV tuned to an empty station?
The hum of a malfunctioning Discman, the chirp of a
Tamagotchi…wait, what’s that I hear? The disconcerting whoosh of
time speeding up?  Drown it out by activating