It's also a throwback to Apple, post lawsuit-with-Apple-the-record-company, introducing sound to Macs. "Sosumi" is an odd (in context) but clever and reverent homage.

Apparently Jim Reekes said he didn't remember how he obtained the original sound, but left the possibility open that it might (?) have been sampled from the game Crystal Quest.

Having just listened to a bunch of Mac OS system beeps on youtube, I wonder whether the Indigo sound was sampled from the SGI Indigo workstation.

Oh I have no idea about the sound’s origin! I just knew the legal and naming history.

I can still hear the sound when I see the word “Sosumi”

I still hear it as my default alert sound even though I’ve disabled all system sounds for years!

I now have the sudden urge to go find “wild eep” and set it as my alert sound.

This is no doubt a reference to the alert whistle sound on Mac OS 7.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRh_-2R6juM&t=24

In sad news, I went looking for Pud's blog "Fucking Sue Me", and not only does it redirect to something unrelated, but it was explicitly excluded from the Internet Archive. I guess a new generation will have to relearn the old lessons.