![]() Reaching out to Fusoxide about a defining part of my lived childhood - the ’90s were a very special but awkward teething period for mobile phones - feels like a weird dream where time makes no sense. ![]() With others, like he helps to maintain Andre Louis’ phonetones directory - a repository of phone software, sound banks, ringtones, and audio ephemera from a bygone era. ![]() Today, Fusoxide is behind the popular Twitter account. “I love the sound of old ringtones, partly due to nostalgia and partly because I think there’s genuine underlooked gems,” he says. The 20-year-old Scottish musician, who prefers to be known by his online handle Fusoxide, got hooked through an Alcatel flip phone he had as a kid. One of the internet’s better-known ringtone archivists was barely alive to witness the golden age of his biggest hobby.
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