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The legend of Sosumi

by Laurie A. Duncan Mar 24th 2005 at 7:11PM


Interesting bit of Apple trivia for ya.

When you play the classic System 7 sound “Sosumi” backwards, it says “steve is dead.”

sosumi sound manager

Seriously. At least that’s what I read on the interweb so it must be true.

What you don’t believe me? What if Jim Reekes, the guy who created the sound confirms it? Then will you believe me?

[via Boing Boing, with a shout out to C.K., who is thankfully taking a break from posting for a few hours so he can play with his new PSP and the rest of us can get a few words in.]




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Laurie

Try again. The post is several months old and the original file it linked to no longer exists. I found it elsewhere and updated the link just for you. You're welcome :)

May 26 2005 at 10:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tim

The link to the sound file is to "http://localhost/." In other words: THE LINK IS BROKEN... I would really like to hear that.

May 26 2005 at 10:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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