Have you noticed the mouse click sound of every single advertisement since 1992 is the same?

Every dot-com commercial or website promotion on television uses the exact same mouse click audio track. It’s as if we were all still using Apple IIes with mice the size of our feet that weigh 14lbs a piece! Here’s a recent Ask.com TV ad as an example. You’ll hear what I mean at 0:12…

There’s only one click in there but you know the sound I’m talking about. Apparently, no matter how many millions of dollars you throw into an advertising campaign, you can’t buy a decent sound engineer these days…

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