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Computers seriously need to stop making cheesy noises in movies.

You know what I'm talking about: the bleeps,Yuna Ogura is Opened Up By A Train Thief Who Comes To Her House (2025) the bloops, the loading bars screech, the text scroll chirp. It needs to end.

In the 1980s, and even in the early 1990s, few really knew what a computer was. Sure, everyone had sort of an idea, but in 1984 only 8 percent of Americans had one in their home. The majority of people had slim understanding of what a computer really could do and what it was supposed to sound like when it did impressive things.

Filmmakers during those decades can be excused for over-exaggerating computer sounds. The bleeps and bloops whenever a computer did anythingwas exposing an audience to the great unknown.

Take the 1983's War Games, starring a very young Matthew Broderick.

Every single thing that shows up on the computer screens makes some kind of digital-y sound. Sure, that's fine. No one knew what computers really did, so why not make every single line of text that appears on screen sound like a digital typewriter.

I totally get it. Filmmakers wanted audiences to marvel at the things these mystery boxes could do. And the sound input helps translate what's happening on the screen to ignorant audiences.

As we moved into the 1990s, I can still understand using these sounds. Things become flashier and weirder, in classic '90s style, but it still seemed like a useful, if not necessary, bit of cinema flair.

Even Steven Spielberg used it in 1993's Jurassic Park.

In 1997, only 36 percent of American households had a computer. This has obviously increased dramatically. As of 2015, according to Statista, 86.8 percent of households have a computer.

That means the vast majority of people who watch these movies know how a computer sounds and how it doesn't. They know that there wouldn't be any reason for opening a file to be accompanied with a whirr or a zzzzzzzz.

And yet, as the 2000s marched on, movies continued to include the completely fictional, and increasingly absurd, noises.

Beyond the silliness of the scenes, can you actually imagine what it would be like if our computers actually made these sounds? We would live in a nonstop cacophony of tinklings that would drive us all completely mad.

There is a reason why our computers don'tmake those sounds. Because no one would buy a computer that acts like that.

And yet still, in contemporary movies, filmmakers insist on adding the flourishes. In very recent movies they can still be found.

Take this scene from Blackhat, which was released in 2015:

And Date Night, released in 2010.

But why?

Is silent computer work so boring that you need to keep the audience engaged with a totally dumb technological fantasy? Are they trying to reach older generations who may still not understand all the whatsits and doodads? Is it just Hollywood habit now and will never end?

I believe television is at least partly to blame for the continuation of this nonsense.

Many shows, mostly targeted to older audiences, use computers in ways that are utterly unbelievable. They always make sure to add the noises. Always, there are the noises.

Check out this simply baffling use of computers and their sounds on Castle.

In summation, I implore filmmakers, sound editors, producers, anyone to stop adding unnecessary computer noises to our media. We all have computers. We have them in our pocket for heaven's sake. We know what they sound like. When you include these fictional bleeps and blorps it is insulting everyone's intelligence. So please stop.

Thank you.

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