I remember windows 95 made a sound when it started. Maybe now that boots are fast there is no need to notify a user who may have focused on something else while waiting ?
You can see that there was a sound when the trash was emptied or when you receive a new mail.
This was really a different, simpler time. Imagine an open space where each computer make a sound each time you receive an email, even with a good spam filter...
> Eno shed further light on the composition of the sound on the BBC Radio 4 show The Museum of Curiosity, admitting that he created it using a Macintosh computer, stating "I wrote it on a Mac. I've never used a PC in my life; I don't like them."
Back then, decent sound coming out of a PC was still pretty novel; you could still buy a PC that had no sound capability other than the click/beep speaker. Why not showcase the awesome new multimedia capabilities than a nice startup sound?
This page has the files for the default system sounds for Win95. https://www.rjgeib.com/about-me/sounds/sounds95.html
You can see that there was a sound when the trash was emptied or when you receive a new mail.
This was really a different, simpler time. Imagine an open space where each computer make a sound each time you receive an email, even with a good spam filter...