The Windows XP startup sound became widely recognisable through Microsoft's early 2000s operating system, which was used in homes, schools and offices around the world. Online, short edits that pair that familiar chime with a brief cheer have circulated as reaction clips, especially in retro tech humour and meme edits where a tiny moment is treated like a grand achievement. The combination works because the sound is instantly familiar even to viewers who never used the system themselves, and its brevity makes it easy to reuse across short videos.