Whenever you take a photo with an iPhone you'll hear a distinct shutter-release sound, but do you ever have the feeling you might have heard it before? Well, you quite possibly have, particularly if you've been taking photos for many years, or are a fan of all things retro, because it's a sample of an actual film SLR camera that dates back to 1976.
When the early Macs were being developed, if fell to a guy by the name of Jim Reekes to create the sounds. It was him that created the famous startup 'boing' that greets Mac users to this day whenever they start their machine up (or restart it after it's crashed – again…), the 'quack' when you try to do something you shouldn't and, of course, the 'camera click' whenever you take a screenshot (Cmd-Shift-3, in case you were wondering).
