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Back in my day, that used to be the only way a computer could produce sound. Later on you could purchase a specialized sound card that would take up a slot in your motherboard.

I thought I was the cool kid when I got my SoundBlaster 16!

The anticipation as you figure out a new IRQ and DMA configuration so you could play with your new toy

My dad used to disable the motherboard speaker because the noises games made back then were more annoying than fun. We eventually got a soundcard, and that was awesome.

And you could plug in your joystick into the soundcard, because where else would you put joystick, right? Perfectly logical.