Wild Eep

The wild eep is an alert sound on the classic Mac OS.

Existant until Mac OS 9, its intonation was extremely weird. Even weirder were the theories suggesting what kind of an animal an eep really was.

From images previously on the website of MacAddict, it appears as an odd form of unicorn.

There is another reference to a user named Wild Eep in the lore of Pokémon. It stems from an old myth:


 * ''There was an ancient kingdom called "WiFi" that was founded by a very mysterious king. This king was so shrouded in mystery that few even truly knew his gender. After much revolt within the kingdom, the king simply disappeared. Many believed that he could not take the unrest within his kingdom. Some thought he was assassinated. Whatever the answer, the king left the WiFi kingdom in pure anarchy. Without the firm rule of law, the kingdom quickly fell into a state of disarray. Meanwhile, a young man that came to be known as Wild Eep was born within the kingdom. They say that on his birth, the heavens themselves lit up, and songs of angels were heard. Wild Eep was truly the chosen one. However, some did not believe this. The anarchy was still rampant within the kingdom; countless efforts at restraining the anarchy failed. The kingdom seemed on the verge of collapse. Wild Eep then had a breakthrough. By cracking the ancient code that governs genetics, the very code by which man and Pokémon alike are formed, he proved himself. He was the Chosen One. Wild Eep traveled to the heart of the kingdom, to the former capital. There, hundreds flocked to him. In a miraculous spectacle of light and holiness, Wild Eep ascended. He became stronger, some might say even bold. Under the rule of Wild Eep, the kingdom flourished. It was rescued from the brink, and the citizens of the kingdom were forever grateful. He is now in the strongest Pokemon clan ever, along with Ditto, bearsfan092, and timetwister. Ditto is Wild Eep's loyal and awesome sidekick. The other two are there because of their devilish good looks and charisma. The clan resides along with boy_genny, goldenknight, ibojangles, and others who live in the royal palace of Wild Eep.

Holy shit Ditto this is still here. ~bears''

Origin
This was removed by an anonymous user on Wikipedia (after it was added onto by another anonymous user):

Eep is an onomatopoeia sound most commonly associated with the Apple Macintosh computer system alert sound "Wild Eep" which was introduced with the Mac System 7 OS, but removed in OS 9. According to Jim Reekes (who was on the Mac OS sound development team at the time), to the best of his knowledge:


 * "When System 7 was being created, I collected new sounds. Some of them I made, and some of them I took from a contest. C.K. Haun ([formerly in charge of Apple's Developer group and] now [as of March 30, 2006] in charge of Apple's Developer Technical Services group), submitted one which I think was Wild Eep. It was voted one of the keepers, and we gave him a CD-ROM drive. That's the best I can recall, as this was over ten years ago."


 * C.K. adds: It wasn't actually submitted by me [mailto:ck@ravenware.com] but by someone else. The sound was recorded for a simple game called Dropper by my then-wife Lora Wray/Medina, and can still be heard in the Mac OS X version of the game. This is a raw, unmodified sound that she made one evening while we were watching television, I immediately dragged her to my programming office to record that unique sound for later use. We divorced soon afterwards, and for years I was pestered by hearing her going "Eep!" at me from hundreds of computers on the Apple campus. This sound was even used in a Blockbuster commercial.