They’re everywhere, seeming since the advent of electronics beeps have been used. Why?
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They are made by a tiny speaker, either on the motherboard of the device itself, or in the case itself (wired to the motherboard).
Originally, beeps were used because they are very easy to create. Run voltage through a speaker wire at a specific wavelength and, bam, a beep. Much, much easier to do than complicated sounds like speech or music.
As to _why_ they beep, the beeps tell you that the computer is doing something without needing a display attached – beeping when the computer boots up tells you the computer booted up _before_ the display drivers initiate, so you can at least know the motherboard is booting.
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