My Favourite Windows Startup Sound

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Startup sounds used to be cool,
they used to mean something.

If I was to say: PlayStation 1 startup sound,
you would play it in your head.
That soothing buwwwwwwmmmm,
tinkle, slcing that meant you were
about to have the best polygonal time.

Or if I said: Gamecube startup.
You would remember that little box
do do do do doing over the screen
into the logo, followed by the satisfying
drum thump.

Windows used to have the best startup sounds
oh my days, did it have some bangers.

XP was great and indelible on the minds
of all current PC using 30-40 year olds.
That was the PC sound for those
coming of age in the digital space.

Edging it out was Windows 95’s,
the start of the true sound card for every PC
era and Multimedia for consumers as
a bells and whistles kind of everything.

I will even concede,
that while one of the most shocking OSes
put out by Microsoft,
     (and this is a company that made Windows 8,)
the Windows ME startup is a pleasing time.

My favourite, though, oh my favourite
my all time bestest and most missed,
is Windows 98. My favourite Windows.
The Windows where I learned that this
tech, this box of sand that makes
calculations I could only dream of,
this screen of 800pixels by 600pixels,
would be the biggest part of my future
forever more.