Jim Reekes, the creator of the new sound alerts for System 7, had grown frustrated with the legal scrutiny and first quipped it should be named "Let It Beep", a pun on "Let It Be".
The original name was retained in the first public version of the OS, and was later changed to "Sonumi" as it appears in the System Preferences.
[11][12] The 2002 Disney animated action-adventure film Treasure Planet, Jim Hawkins sees the skeleton of Captain Flint, holding B.E.N.
's memory chip, making the Macintosh's Sosumi sound effect, and the planet begins collapsing.
[citation needed] In 2006, Geek Squad used this sound in their commercial "Jet Pack", in which a woman was frustrated over her computer.