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**My girlfriend just found her old ringtones.**
The other day, my girlfriend rummaged through her old phone and stumbled upon a treasure trove of ringtones from the early 2000s. For a solid hour, she transformed our living room into a nostalgia factory, blasting everything from her enthusiastic rendition of “Crazy Frog” to that infamous Nokia ringtone that feels like it’s embedded in the very fabric of time. Every time a new one played, she would squeal with delight, trying to mimic the vibe of each tune as if she were auditioning for a 90s boy band.
The real comedy was watching her try to explain to our cat why “Hollaback Girl” was once her jam while simultaneously attempting to hit the high notes. Our cat didn’t care about the ringtones—he looked thoroughly unimpressed, elevating his judgmental stare to a whole new level. I just stood there, half-laughing, half-terrified that her phone would become sentient and start demanding royalties for bringing back the most cringeworthy moments of her past. We ended up collapsing in laughter as she attempted to set her new ringtone—only to realize that doing so required a level of tech-savviness she distinctly lacked.
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A Relic 👀
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Watch them find this shit in like 400 years: “and this here is a scroll or as some natives called it then, ‘a piscies piper’, containing a super secret code spoken only by the ancient tribe of the crackhead.”
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It’s beautiful 😭
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IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!!
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Took the words out of my mouth omg
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I’ll never forget my first phone, a Sony Ericsson candy bar beauty, came with System of a Down’s Toxicity as a polyphonic ringtone, introduced me to the band. Simpler times.
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Conversion…
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I’ve been along for the ride through the entire cell phone development from bag phone till now and I have never seen any ringtones that were manually entered like this. What phones were these for?
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Almost certainly a Nokia 3310. They had a monophonic composer built into them that turned typed out code like this into music. Numbers = Musical notes ** = Extended the note being played PH = Pause \# = sharped the note
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Future reference if you want to type \# or any other special characters put a \\ (backslash) in front of them. So `\#`
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Fixed thanks
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I’m very curious at the syntax needed to type this specific statement
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A lot of messaging apps, including Reddit use some form of Markdown for styling text. You **can** _style_ ~~text~~ `a few` ways. In Markdown, a \# is used to denote a header.
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To type a backslash, you just need to put a second backslash in front of it. So typing \\\\ produces \\.
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That’s why to make the shrugging guy ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ you have to type this ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
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This why I just go with ¯\ (ツ) /¯ as my keyboard shortcut for shrugging guy so I don’t have to have different versions for different apps
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How many slashes did you need to type to have 3 show up? Six?
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No if you put a bunch of spaces at the beginning of a line it prevents markup from taking effect. It’s supposed to be to allow people to share computer code without it being broken by markup.
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you can also do it in-line with 3 grave ticks, so “`*this*“` becomes “`*this*“` (and let me tell you, trying to escape the format-stripping character was a bit of a headache, so I just gave up and went for the code block)
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I think on reddit you can do an inline block with just one backtick / grave accent. But using them in 3s is something I’ve seen in other apps for a multiline code block.
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I’m glad I got the reply because my Reddit notification shows 6 back slashes and a pound in the first one and 5 and a pound in the second
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Yeahhhh that’s because I was initially trying to show what the comment above would’ve typed. But then I remembered (after submitting the comment) that octothorpes only need to be escaped with a backslash if they’re at the start of a line, and I didn’t want to explain all that, so I just edited it and here we are 😅
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So to type two you have to type three?
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To display two you have to type four!
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Why bother with the slash when both \# (with slash) and # (without) look the same? What I’m most curious about though is that box the /# is in. How did you put it in that little gray box?
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https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043033952-Formatting-Guide
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`Neato!`
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thanks for this. ive figured out how to do a lot on my own but i was always too lazy to research some other ones like ~~this one~~
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Nokia 3650 here, with a really cool but honestly impractical [circular keypad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3650), like a rotary phone, lmao
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Back when all the phone manufacturers were trying to come up with funky designs to catch the eye of teens
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I did this on my Motorola flip phone that I had before the KRAZR changed the game
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I met a guy who once had a job turning songs into monophonic melodies for ringtones. He said he’d get a stack of CDs with track names highlighted. He’d do two or three versions per track and someone else chose which one got used. I don’t remember if it was for a phone manufacturer or third party but he said it was the best job he ever had.
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I had a 5510 with the same function I think. You triggered a core memory!
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I had a Motorola that could do it. 2002?
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I wasn’t aware of that at the time, either. That’s a pity. I had a good ear and a lot of spare time; I could have done those on commission for all my friends.
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I remember doing this on my 3330 to make the inspector gadget theme.
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I also had a pager that supported this code. I did Voodoo Child by Jimmy Hendrix and the theme from Knight Rider
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Nokia phones – especially the brick/candybar style ones that were popular in the first half of the 2000s.
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In the UK you had people paying £1.50 a go for an sms back that would give you the numbers for the ringtone you wanted. Whole corners of the web dedicated to working out and sharing songs. Surprised you missed it!
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There’s a great video that’s an interview with Akon, talking about how he realized how much money he could make from ringtones when Mr. Lonely blew up, and how from them on he wrote songs specifically with making them ringtone friendly in mind.
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That’s really interesting, switched on dude
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That’s amazing. I have no idea how I missed that at all honestly.
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I was there. I just never really got into personal ringtones. I always thought they made my favorite songs into shitty earworms that I would get sick of. Therefore, I never got one until you could have a real song and quickly got sick of that too.
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I’m pretty sure I used them on my Nokia 3310
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Eriksen had phones like this as well. Can confirm, I programmed a pink panther ringtone
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Yeah, you would pay a couple of quid to download them (and pixel images) or enter them manually like this.
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And then they’d fuck you over for £0.50 a week which you didn’t realise you’d signed up for.
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I had a Motorola that did that too. I had our school fight song as one, and a hilarious double time iron man as another.
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Well, you must have missed some milestones of that development then.
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