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the beep sound as a form of censorship

A beep is a short, single tone, typically high pitched, generally made by a computer or other machine. The term has its origin in onomatopoeia. The word "beep beep" is recorded for the noise of a car horn in 1929, and the modern usage of "beep" for a high pitched tone is attributed to Arthur C. Clarke in 1951.

In some computer terminals, the ASCII character code 7, bell character, outputs an audible beep. The beep is also sometimes used to notify the user when the BIOS is not working or there is some other error during the start up process, often during the power on self test (POST). A beep is also made when holding down too many keys at the same time, as the computer often cannot handle the processes. The command line interfaces of the ReactOS, PTS DOS, SISNE plus, and AROS operating systems include a beep command. A beep command is also part of ASCII's MSX DOS2 Tools for MSX DOS version 2.

Beeps are also used as a warning when a truck, lorry or bus is reversing. It can also be used to define the sound produced by a car horn. Colloquially, beep is also used to refer to the action of honking the car horn at someone, (e. g., "Why did that guy beep at me? "), and is more likely to be used with vehicles with higher pitched horns. "Honk" is used if the sound is lower pitched (e. g. Volkswagen Beetles beep, but Oldsmobiles honk. On trains, beeps may be used for communications between members of staff.

The use of profanity and offensive language on free to air broadcasts in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Japan is sometimes censored by replacing the profane word or phrase with an audible beep(s), often accompanied by obscuring the speaker's mouth to prevent lip reading. If there is a closed captioning, the word is commonly replaced by asterisks, used as a mixture of letters and asterisks, or "[bleep]" is used.