+1 HI BOOP BEEP

April 3, 2024 4:25 AM

It's easy, just call and leave a message after the beep. Do not wait. CALL NOW!!! (Please note that messages may take a short while to appear. Thank you for your patience!)
posted by Klipspringer (10 comments total)

Man this is...creepy? I don't know why listening to the recordings makes me feel that way, but it is so candid? raw? Something. Unfortunately I'm not in the US and don't want to make an international call from home, but if I remember I will call tomorrow at work and leave my own message.

Also, so many of the recordings have such a similar voice. At first I thought it was the same person over and over, but there are some in there that are quite different.
posted by Literaryhero at 4:58 AM on April 3

Actually, it's just the gorgeous sine-scroller that I'm enjoying right now. Not enough software ships with sine scrollers or greetz.
posted by majick at 6:09 AM on April 3 [3 favorites]

Pardon my paranoia, but are they just collecting phone numbers via caller ID?
posted by njohnson23 at 6:19 AM on April 3 [1 favorite]

No message from Laurie Anderson.
posted by night_train at 7:15 AM on April 3 [4 favorites]

The creator has been answering questions over on the Orange site. Thank goodness he's self-moderating it. This is pretty good info:

Site is static built using Jekyll. Voicemail inbox is hosted using VoIP.ms. I pull the voicemails manually by running a Python script, edit the Markdown file that the script spits out to add a memo, then run another script to build and upload the site to Neocities.

I thought about making a dedicated "app" for all of it, but why make it more complicated than it has to be. I manually moderate all the calls anyway, so I just stuck with a simple smattering of scripts and static hosting.

You can see all the site source and scripts here: https://gitlab.com/unixispower/after-the-beep

posted by JoeZydeco at 7:23 AM on April 3 [2 favorites]

No message from Laurie Anderson.

Hello? This is your Mother
Are you there?
Are you coming . . . home?
posted by The Bellman at 8:07 AM on April 3 [3 favorites]

Hi dad! I’m in jail!
posted by seanmpuckett at 8:55 AM on April 3 [9 favorites]

Believe it or not I'm not home
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 9:19 AM on April 3

Fresh batch just dropped.
posted by Klipspringer at 10:45 AM on April 3

Say hi to mom! FROM JAIL!
posted by bitterkitten at 3:36 PM on April 3 [2 favorites]