Microsoft introduced this device connection chime as part of the default sound scheme for Windows 10, and it carried over largely unchanged into Windows 11, where it still plays when Windows recognises new hardware. Because almost every PC user has heard it while plugging in a mouse, printer or external drive, it became instantly recognisable outside the operating system too. Creators now reuse the short clip in tutorials, unboxings and comedy edits as shorthand for something being connected, often alongside other system sounds like the error tone or notification ding.