Windows 2000 is a Microsoft operating system released in 2000 as part of the Windows NT family, mainly aimed at business and workstation users. Its short startup sound became a familiar audio cue for a generation of office and home PC users who heard it at boot. In meme culture, that clean system chime has been repeatedly remixed, with distorted and bass boosted edits turning a routine startup into a joke about crashes and broken hardware, a format that keeps circulating on soundboards and in short video edits.