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Earliest Audio Recording Resurrected, Scares Us To Dead

gizmodo.com — Audio historian David Giovannoni and scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have discovered and brought back to life the first audio recording ever made, 17 years before Edison's patent. The ten-second snippet was made in a phonoautograph, a device that only recorded sounds but didn't play them back, so they have to do some voodoo

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  • stvalentino, on 03/28/2008, -4/+18welcome back to the audio record!
  • yokozuka, on 03/28/2008, -9/+48It does sound like a ghostard.
    • gravityPersists, on 03/28/2008, -1/+12wtf is a ghostard?
      • wtfunkymonkey, on 03/28/2008, -0/+42a ghost with development issues.
    • ParticleMan420, on 03/28/2008, -2/+1its kind of like a Dickfer or a Henway
    • OwdenBowden, on 03/28/2008, -2/+8The sound (of a Frenchman) was immediately translated after the first playback. The translation is found below:

      We surrender.
      • burnin8r28, on 03/28/2008, -4/+1they have found the french translation:

        snails
  • maddog66, on 03/28/2008, -5/+20Interesting as all hell, but damn freaky.
    • Hobbes24, on 03/28/2008, -0/+36it occurs to me after hearing that, that it would have been the perfect prank if they'd changed it to a slowed down "neeever gonna give yoouuu upppp..."
  • laserblazer, on 03/28/2008, -19/+146Edison was a big ol' phony who ripped off anyone he could; he was essentially the Walt Disney of science.
    • moolaismyfriend, on 03/28/2008, -9/+6Agreed
      • Cerebron, on 03/28/2008, -2/+23So Walt Disney was the Steve Jobs of animation?
    • 1iProd, on 03/28/2008, -7/+28***** EDISON!
    • one1plus1one, on 03/28/2008, -22/+11Don't you mean he was essentially the Bill Gates of science?
      • UnderWaterman, on 03/28/2008, -7/+1Except Bill Gates wrote MSDOS...?
        • gurm, on 03/28/2008, -0/+8No, MSDOS was written by Tim Paterson.
        • 1iProd, on 03/28/2008, -0/+6And Tim Paterson stole from Ken Thompson.
        • directrix13, on 03/28/2008, -1/+7And Ken Thompson sucked Bill Gates *****. The circle of life....
        • Navicerts, on 03/28/2008, -1/+4He bought dos for like $50 and then got it installed on IBM's
      • superfuxxorr, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3And Ken Thompson is the Dean Brockheimer of DB Imaging.
    • VortexSpin, on 03/28/2008, -0/+16Did you read the article? It clearly states that he didn't in this case.

      "However, while the fact is that Edison stole many things, this is not one of them, according to Giovannoni: "Edison is not diminished whatsoever by this discovery." Another scholar, Paul Israel, director of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University remarked that "what made Edison different from Scott was that he was trying to reproduce sound and he succeeded."
    • WrldsWrstDigger, on 03/28/2008, -1/+29Tesla FTW!!!
    • callmejordy265, on 03/28/2008, -0/+15Tesla could kick his ass.
    • joeanon, on 03/28/2008, -2/+6All since is a series of 'rip offs'

      It's called a building bock process. Should each scientist re-invent math every time too ? That's the corporate intellectual patent thinking for you.

      If we approach innovation without ripping people off, we'd still be in the stone age trying to invent the WHEEL 2.0
    • kiiwii, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2Do you know anything about Walt Disney?

      Just how exactly did he rip people off?
      • patik, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1Many Disney characters and stories were lifted directly from other places.
        • kiiwii, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2They weren't lifted, the Walt Disney company bought the rights to develop animated movies based on previous works.

          In Walt's biography it plainly states how he had multiple options to choose from as far as which movies to develop. (I'm talking early on with Snow White, Bambi, Dumbo, etc.) Walt never claimed to have written the material himself (or by his company)
          • dunk71, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Snow White is an evolution of old folk tales so wide spread that it's impossible to trace their origins to any one particular culture. It's roots lie in European folklore but it also contains elements from African and Asian folklore... But it can be further extrapolated that those folktales themselves influenced each other and many other tales in other cultures, and were in turn influenced by their offspring as history progressed. So how did he buy the rights to that? Who did he purchase them from?
  • zerosaber8, on 03/28/2008, -4/+83I think I just found my new ringtone
    • Iwantawii, on 03/28/2008, -0/+5and every time it rings you have to look shocked and say "it's them!" and scurry into a corner
    • Fkb797, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Yeah now I can get rid of my Dropin Loads!!!!
    • archivist, on 03/28/2008, -4/+1haha that's a great idea!
      oh wait, *****... my iphone.
      • GliTCH82, on 03/28/2008, -1/+4You do know you can use custom ringers on your iPhone, right?
  • davidwasman, on 03/28/2008, -16/+87Buried for Gizmodo/Gawker Media Spam - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html ...

    • darkism, on 03/28/2008, -4/+7You showed them!
      Somebody care to remind me what the anti-business crusaders of Digg have against Gawker Media anyway?
      • postalblowfish7, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1if it's popular no one likes it. so they'd rather link to a MSM article like somehow the NY Times are any less capitalistic and greedy...
      • DrCyclops, on 03/28/2008, -0/+5I personally would rather read the original article than a blog post linking to the article without as much information.
      • inbred, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4They create ***** summaries for articles in an attempt to gain money. Any time I see a Gizmodo article, I'll go straight to the end where it usually says "Via blahblah.com" and read the original, instead.
    • FranksValli, on 03/28/2008, -2/+6There's a TON of Gawker spam on Digg - it shows up way more than it should. In most cases the Gawker article is just a copy from another news source.
  • ch4os1337, on 03/28/2008, -9/+1Dude thats *****.
  • ravamp3, on 03/28/2008, -14/+4and yet another reason to dislike edison...
    • GothAlice, on 03/28/2008, -2/+14Bah, I found him ripping off Tesla to be good enough.
  • billlyboobs34, on 03/28/2008, -6/+198Although not related to this article it should be mentioned that Tesla kicks Edison's ass any day
    • moolaismyfriend, on 03/28/2008, -14/+3What about Guglielmo Marconi?
      • billlyboobs34, on 03/28/2008, -1/+11Uhh he's a douche who used Tesla's older radio designs and claimed them as his own.
      • ncapone, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1I want-a change-a my name-a!
    • ThePirateParty, on 03/28/2008, -1/+6I agree!
    • pico303, on 03/28/2008, -0/+25Both Marconi and Edison get their respective asses handed to them by Tesla.
      • mrmrok, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1I nominate Emmett Lathrop "Doc" Brown
    • jmpeagle, on 03/28/2008, -12/+3why does Digg suck on tesla's balls so much?
      • digsuxx, on 03/28/2008, -4/+2ever seen The Prestige?
      • billlyboobs34, on 03/28/2008, -2/+9Read up on Tesla and it will become obvious.
        • HonestAbe, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1You realize most of the things written about him are fabricated, right? They were both competing for publicity during the War of the Currents, and anything that portrayed either of them as "wizards" was good for the cause.
      • Trilock, on 03/28/2008, -2/+2because http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSAExHBrfwU is every diggers dream... ... right?
      • SpykerSpeed, on 03/28/2008, -4/+2Because he's more obscure than Edison, so mentioning him makes you look smart. Or something.
      • GliTCH82, on 03/28/2008, -1/+3Because, Tesla's legacy is a testament to the fact that you don't always get the credit you deserve for your work, and documented history isn't always as perfect and accurate as people perceive it to be. Tesla wasn't as socially adept as Edison, but he was brilliant in his field, possibly even more so than Edison.
      • HonestAbe, on 03/28/2008, -1/+1Because they're gullible.
    • Commodore84, on 03/28/2008, -1/+7http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt8Y93k0pB0 - Tesla: The Forgotten Wizard. WATCH THIS VIDEO. Incredible.
  • harronoob, on 03/28/2008, -11/+7freaky... but even freakier if the phone rang and that was on the other end... seven days....
    • Ockniel, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Dude, I'm gonna call someone and hold my speaker up to the phone . . .. holy crap scary
    • SKick, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1What's freaky about bill collectors?
  • ravamp3, on 03/28/2008, -8/+105NIKOLA TESLA! FTW!
    • moolaismyfriend, on 03/28/2008, -13/+2actually Guglielmo Marconi for the win

      But hey what do I know.
      • CamperBob, on 03/28/2008, -0/+17Not much. Most of Marconi's patents on wireless communications were overturned in favor of Tesla.
        • moolaismyfriend, on 03/28/2008, -9/+1Exactly and why was that?

          Even though Guglielmo Marconi was the first to broadcast across the Atlantic and pioneer much of the stuff Tesla got credit for.
          • CamperBob, on 03/28/2008, -0/+10Tesla didn't receive patents for broadcasting across the Atlantic. He received patents for designing and refining the apparatus that made it possible.
        • ravamp3, on 03/28/2008, -2/+2here you go fighting with people again moola....
        • billlyboobs34, on 03/28/2008, -1/+8If you create the first flying car and I'm the first person to drive it across the Atlantic do I deserve the credit for it?

          Hell no. Marconi was a fraud
          • daRoach, on 03/28/2008, -3/+1So Lindberg was a fraud because he didn't invent the airplane?
          • GliTCH82, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3He would be if he claimed to have invented it.
        • moolaismyfriend, on 03/28/2008, -2/+3I'm not fighting ravamp,

          Just debating an obscure historical moment in history, which I bet most Digg user don't know much about and maybe they will go and read a bit more on the subject.

          Or I could just be brown noser and just accept everything at face value so I can fit in with the popular people...
      • byronne, on 03/28/2008, -0/+7After recently reading 'Thunderstruck', it became obvious to me that Marconi had no idea what he was doing - he wasn't a scientist as much as he was a diligent entrepreneur. He didn't know why one type of antenna worked and another didn't; at one point he thought it was all about the height, so he kept trying to make 300 foot antenna arrays that would get knocked down by the weather and still fail to show any improvement in signal reception.

        Marconi was more like P.T. Barnum than anyone else. Tesla gets the props for figuring out how the stuff works.
    • pico303, on 03/28/2008, -0/+15U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Tesla did in fact invent wireless communication before Marconi.
      • moolaismyfriend, on 03/28/2008, -2/+2I know.

        I recently become interested in the subject and the Supreme Court, I.E. the United States government, had a vested interest with Tesla winning that patent.

        Guglielmo Marconi was not a great man, he supported Mussolini, and was not the most ethical of men, yet I believe he did some incredible ground breaking work on this technology.
        • CamperBob, on 03/28/2008, -1/+4True, he did. I don't know that I'd call Marconi a "fraud." But for several decades, Tesla received essentially no public credit at all.
  • TheUserFactor, on 03/28/2008, -11/+17Buried for tacky spamful douchebaggery.
    • billlyboobs34, on 03/28/2008, -1/+18Doesn't that mean any Gizmodo link...
    • postalblowfish7, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2but this isn't from cracked.com...
    • HonestAbe, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Your efforts are in vain. If you want to prevent this stuff, you'll need to appeal higher up the food chain, like, the people who run the site and allow dupes. Stop spamming the comments with anti-spam comments.
      • TheUserFactor, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Stop spamming the anti-spam comment responses with anti-anti-spam comment comments.
  • Emack420, on 03/28/2008, -7/+2they never mention the date of the recording?
    • moolaismyfriend, on 03/28/2008, -2/+617 years before the patent for the phonograph.

      Google says 1924 was the year the patent was awarded to edison.

      - 17

      = 2008 rap music.
    • INTERNETMASTER, on 03/28/2008, -0/+6April 9, 1860
    • jmpeagle, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3The earliest known invention of a phonographic recording device was the phonautograph, invented by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville and patented on March 25, 1857. It could transcribe sound to a visible medium, but had no means to play back the sound after it was recorded.

      however the date of the recording is supposedly April 9, 1860 according to the NY Times

      http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html ...
    • burnin8r28, on 03/28/2008, -0/+169!
  • Papajohn56, on 03/28/2008, -2/+47it wouldn't be creepy if they weren't trying so hard to MAKE it creepy
    • Brettus, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3Agreed. It didn't sound creepy to me - it just sounded like a bad micro-cassette recording.
  • Eslamicolt3, on 03/28/2008, -11/+2That's almost the scariest thing I've ever heard
    • Papajohn56, on 03/28/2008, -5/+18oh please. harden the ***** up
      • Eslamicolt3, on 03/28/2008, -3/+4No but just think about what it is. That is the oldest recording EVER. And it sounds incredibly creepy.
        • Lewie, on 03/28/2008, -0/+8What if everyone talked like that back then???
    • Sabazou, on 03/28/2008, -1/+12i think papajohn56 is a pretty cool guy, eh is hard and doesnt afraid of old audio recording
    • Brettus, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2You are a vagina inside of a pussy.
  • archivist, on 03/28/2008, -12/+23i went back in the past and saw that this was the recording done by Nikola Tesla. the recording says: "edison's a *****"
  • moolaismyfriend, on 03/28/2008, -10/+58Sounds like modern day rap music.

    Just throw it in pro tools copy and past 135 times, and bam you have a hit.
    • badassninja, on 03/28/2008, -1/+8dude, the internet could go crazy with that idea as a joke. I can see a techno remix with that clip in it right now. It must be so!
    • one1plus1one, on 03/28/2008, -1/+17The O'Claire-de-la-Lune-1860 vs Snoop-Dawg-2008 remix?

      Maybe you are onto something there.

      The tune could start with a scratchy record sound, and you'd hear Snoop Dogg's voice (like it was from a 1920's phonograph) saying something like: "O Claire de la Mother f**ker," and then the beat would kick off.

      Throw in the occasional refrain: "Put in the air".

      But at every 10 second cycle, you'd have Snoop Dogg's voice saying "Mother F**ker".
    • Spoomeister, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4I could swear Puff Daddy (or whatever the ***** he's calling himself today) made an album like this already. All he did was just say "yeah" and "uh-huh-uh-huh" every 5 or 10 seconds.
  • ntransit, on 03/28/2008, -17/+36***** THE RIAA!!!
    • kaeppler, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2Oh that's SO February 2008. It's all about the IFPA now.
      • SpencerMc, on 03/28/2008, -1/+6I'm not familiar with the IFPA.
        A quick google search lists these posibilities:
        Independent Free Newspapers of America
        International Flipper Pinball Association
        International Federation of Psoriasis Associations
        International Footbag Players' Association

        I'm torn between digging you down for hating on flipper pinball and people with psoriosis and digging you up for leading me to the discover of the great sport of Footbag.
    • Lewie, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3It's okay, I still hate the RIAA ... this digg's for you!
    • tehnico, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1I don't know what you're getting dugg down for. The RIAA clearly needs to be *****. They need a great big *****.
    • davdw001, on 03/28/2008, -1/+0Too funny!!!
    • loggia, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1That is one of the funniest Digg comments I have read. I think even the RIAA would have to laugh.
  • beeblebrox, on 03/28/2008, -8/+75The RIAA to sue Giovannoni in 5...4...3...2...
    • Papajohn56, on 03/28/2008, -24/+4old joke, cut the stupid *****, not funny anymore. it's public domain anyway
      • DracoFlameus, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3awww don't underestimate the RIAA... public domain is their greatest enemy. I'm sure they find a possibility to sue him and everybody else ;)
  • RunJun, on 03/28/2008, -7/+4My sister will be glad to know that she wasn't the only one freaked out by this.
    • billlyboobs34, on 03/28/2008, -1/+11So... how old is your sister. Is she pretty hot? How about you send her my way...
  • DjViral, on 03/28/2008, -8/+3i know what i'm sampling next.... RREEEEEEMMIIIIXXXX!!!!! lol
  • OrangeSoda31, on 03/28/2008, -12/+7I bet the RIAA will sue them for copyright infringement.
    • one1plus1one, on 03/28/2008, -1/+8Not before beeblebrox (above) sues you for comment-infringement
  • dunnduggit, on 03/28/2008, -10/+1  
    • kzgagne, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3So scientists could visually study the waveforms that make up human speech.
    • WebCester, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4OMG, it's internet telepathy.
    • davdw001, on 03/28/2008, -1/+0white noise...
  • Laughto, on 03/28/2008, -0/+24You just know this is going to be sneaked on to the next Sigur Ros album somewhere
  • krisscofield, on 03/28/2008, -11/+7Goddamnit. I REALLY wasn't expecting that face at the end...*sigh* I guess I should change my pants now. Thanks, Digg.
  • t.toe, on 03/28/2008, -2/+47If the audio recording wasn't freaky enough, they had to sneak that zombie girl into the last few frames of the video. Bastards!
    • billymeade, on 03/28/2008, -2/+0Thanks for your insight, Mr. I-have-to-explain-the-joke!
  • moolaismyfriend, on 03/28/2008, -6/+3If there was a copyright on this recording it entered the free domain 50 years after it was recorded. So That would be around 1957.

    So, no, the RIAA cannot sue.
    • TechCF, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Well, for the UK this is true. The laws differ in each country
    • one1plus1one, on 03/28/2008, -0/+8Doesn't 1860 + 50 = 1910?
    • brandon81211, on 03/28/2008, -5/+1I believe in the USA it's 25 years for a song. That's why most all commercials have older songs in them, they don't have to pay royalties.
      • MisterThePlague, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3The Beatles songs are older than 25 years and they're most certainly still copyrighted and require expensive licenses to use them in television, film and advertising.
        • darlingt, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1That's because the Beatles have chosen to renew the copyrights. And aren't they a UK band, making them subject to the 50 years law mentioned above?
    • DracoFlameus, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3RIAA finds a way... they always have an they always will. Eventually either they or "public domain" will fall :p
  • inkswamp, on 03/28/2008, -3/+36Not in the least bit scary. What exactly was so freaky about that?

    "OOOohhh... static and a muffled voice. It's like something out my nightmares!!!"
    • Icyfenix, on 03/28/2008, -0/+15hey if you had to put up with sprint/nextel service for this long you'd be having nightmares about it too.
  • bxzcd, on 03/28/2008, -3/+7A little bit of pee came out when I saw that dead girl.
    • Icyfenix, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1she wasnt scary- mostly cuz o the pigtails tho.
    • allfatherblack, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3"I think I just ***** out my heart! ... I wonder if she puts out..."
  • JoEBlack982, on 03/28/2008, -1/+10technology is ***** crazy.. how do you start with nothing and create something that records sound!
    • billlyboobs34, on 03/28/2008, -1/+2It's actually really easy, the hard part is what material to use to store the sound data.
    • Ockniel, on 03/28/2008, -1/+10Blows your mind to think about. How the frik to do start from nothing and create a 1/4 inch view screen showing live events on the other side of the entire earth?
    • callmejordy265, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Or for that matter, if they couldn't play it back, how did they know it worked in the first place?
    • GliTCH82, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Dude, how do you start with nothing and create a matrix of 2,000,000 transistors that digitally recreate a picture which was sent through a signal cable by a your GPU (600,000,000 transistors), after getting that information from your CPU (500,000,000 transistors), which pulled it from volatile memory capable of storing 32,000,000,000 on/off registers to store information, which was pulled from a ceramic platter magnetized to hold trillions of on/off registers to semi-permanently store information, which was acquired from a global network of millions of interconnected machines like yours spanning billions of miles of wire and glass strands?

      The answer is, you don't. You take the culmination of everything people know up until now, and add a little bit to it.
  • pico303, on 03/28/2008, -0/+7Pretty cool, especially when you think the person that made the recording has been dead for at least a century, if not more, and that when it was made, Abraham Lincoln was in his first year of office as President of the United States.

    P.S. Thought zombie girl was a little dorky....
    • ecualung, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Actually, it was 7 months before Lincoln was even ELECTED. He didn't take office until March 1861.
  • HHP2K, on 03/28/2008, -7/+2JESUS CHRIST!!

    *****' assholes @_x
  • mafus07, on 03/28/2008, -3/+2it sound good..
  • ronaldmonster, on 03/28/2008, -5/+21Scares us to dead?

    Guess that what happens when a site is run by a bunch of children.
  • leonico, on 03/28/2008, -1/+3are you sure that's not a fly?
  • thinkerbelle, on 03/28/2008, -15/+1if it couldn't be heard, what's the point of recording?

    Entertainment Articles
    http://www.featuredarticles.com/
    • billlyboobs34, on 03/28/2008, -0/+7I think it's the same point as digging you down for your signature and link...
  • badassninja, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Yes. I just wish I was able to understand it. I didn't find it to be that creepy.
  • pentak, on 03/28/2008, -4/+3Dugg for the "Stacy" pic.
  • INTERNETMASTER, on 03/28/2008, -0/+40suddenly 128k MP3s don't seem so bad
    • iXneonXi, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1not like you can tell the difference between 128 and 320 ;)
  • NenDaiKi, on 03/28/2008, -0/+5There was a day when screamers were all you found on the internet, and I have thankfully never let my guard down again. The first thing I do for ANY picture whatsoever before looking at it in detail is make sure it is a jpg, and when someone has scary audio set to a video I immediately become suspicious. Glad I didn't listen.

    Wish I could though, the premise alone is terrifying.
  • notoneofus, on 03/28/2008, -1/+0Backmasking was around that long ago?
    • texpundit, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...
  • Linake, on 03/28/2008, -0/+3That can't be Au Clair de la Lune! I think most of us were forced to play that song on the wonderfully-musical instrument 'the recorder' in elementary school. . . and if we played it with that tune we'd have been struck upside the head.
    • texpundit, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1We didn't have recorders...we had tonettes.
  • starlord1, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1This was recently reported on Radio4's Today programme. The New read Charlotte Green completely lost her ever so professional BBC composure after reporting and playing this dreadful sound. It started with snickering ang then a cough and an "excuse me" then the broadcast went silent (The glories of the cough switch.) Several other straight laced and usually the definition of professional reporting and journalism (no strangers to interviewing world leaders and senior politicians and business men) could be heard joining in the reverie.
    • dxg999, on 03/28/2008, -0/+0I heard this - both when it happened live and when they repeated it "by popular request" at ten to nine. The Today Programme is held up as the last bastion of the BBC's reputation for high quality journalism and it was truly great to hear her loose it so utterly and completely. What "made" it was the fact that she was trying to read out someone's obituary. I almost crashed the car I was laughing so much!
  • WaltDismal, on 03/28/2008, -1/+30In 150 years, some researcher will decode an ancient hologram only to discover it's Rick Astly singing.
    • billlyboobs34, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4We put it in a time capsule to figure out if he was going to keep his promise because he is
      never gonna give you up
      Never gonna let you down
      Never gonna run around and desert you
      Never gonna make you cry
      Never gonna say goodbye
      Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
      • Trollhammaren, on 03/28/2008, -5/+2I'm just dreading the day Astley will die and some Digg faggot will say "Omg he sed hed never say gudbye! LUL!". Dibs on physically harming said faggot.
        • darlingt, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1You'll have a lot of them to get through.
  • KodomoNoJikan, on 03/28/2008, -0/+5 wtf is the point in recording something if you cannot play it back?
    How do you even know if was recorded in the first place?
    wait approx 150 years for someone to figure out how to recover the sound from it?
    • allfatherblack, on 03/28/2008, -0/+6... Yeah thats about right. And if history is trying to tell us something today, its that this is exactly what happened. Soooo... thanks for recanting reality sarcastically.
    • Infidelephant, on 03/28/2008, -0/+2Audio cryogenics
    • guibom, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1"How do you even know if was recorded in the first place?"
      You just trust your abilities.
  • KodomoNoJikan, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1he must have had a stroke or heart attack as a result of hearing that person sing and therefore could not invent the playback device
  • allfatherblack, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1Oh see all its takes is a relatively ancient audio clip at 3 in the morning in a dark room to make me ***** myself...
  • oriyn142, on 03/28/2008, -2/+2Dugg for "So they have to do some voodoo"
  • canadalolz, on 03/28/2008, -0/+4i feel like i'm gonna die a horrible death in seven days
  • Aslan72, on 03/28/2008, -0/+11Where's the torrent at?
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